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Automatic Feeding of Reef Nutrition Foods?

Andy Aquariums

Andy Aquariums

NJRC Member
After a ton of research, I decided to get the wine coolers to keep the Reef Nutrition Food cold and use an Apex DOS to autofeed. I am concerned about logistics, however.

I have three tanks plumbed into one sump: (1) a 65g predator reef (in process of building, currently just has a small picasso trigger and small snowflake eel; no corals yet); (2) a 14g mixed reef biocube; and (3) a 10g frag tank. I will have to feed the predator reef more than the other two, so I planned on using one of the DOS heads for a dedicated line to that tank and the other head to the other two tanks (via a T fitting).

I wanted to create a mix of phyto-feast, oyster-feast and mysis-feast going into each tank. But now I am reading that phyto-feast shouldn't really be mixed with the other foods. I don't have room for another cooler and another pump to make a dedicated phyto line.

Any ideas?
 
radiata

radiata

NJRC Member
The differences between Phyto-Feast or Phyto-Feast Live, as described on the Reed Mariculture site, seem to be clouding my brain. (Maybe they need a better copywriter?) It seems to me that the loading of your cooler will be a daily process, unless you have reason to believe that the temperature of your cooler will keep the melted frozen feed at 40 degrees or less for multiple days. (How often do you plan on loading the cooler?) If you are going to be routinely going to your freezer, I think you should consider using Tahitian Blend Reef Tank Formula. A few squirts into the system every time you load you cooler with frozen food shouldn't be much of an issue. Caveat: the shipping on Tahitian Blend won't be cheap - they need to ship it frozen - they use dry ice and expedited shipping.
 
radiata

radiata

NJRC Member
BTW... Are you planning to use the reverse functionality on the DOS? Reverse is the only thing on the DOS that would cause me to buy one.
 
Andy Aquariums

Andy Aquariums

NJRC Member
radiata said:
BTW... Are you planning to use the reverse functionality on the DOS? Reverse is the only thing on the DOS that would cause me to buy one.
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Yup, I set it up and am using the reverse. Pretty easy to set it up.

Spoke to reef nutrition. They said I should be ok mixing the phyto-feast witht the other foods as loong as it is short term, i.e. I am just filling up once a week.
 
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