Homemade Roids

[redfishbluefish]

I have heard a couple times that the use of ReefRoids results in high phosphate in your tank. Again, I’ve only heard this and cannot verify it. However, it did concern me, since I had been using ReefRoids.

So just to be safe (maybe), I decided to make my own coral food. I took a couple good size pinches of my favorite flake fish food and put it in a small mortar and ground it up with the pestal. Now here’s the “maybe”…..the fish food might have a phosphate problem too….who knows?? For some reason, I feel a little safer with the fish food than the ReefRoids.

When I feed this mix, my candy canes look like the "chi-chi-chi" Chia Pet. The polyp extension is through the roof.

 

[dan_k]

Would you like to share with us what your favorite fish food is?
Are you going to run any test to see if your phosphates go up?

 

[mnat]

Just check your favorite flake food to see what the ingredients are. I know some of the pellet foods have trace amounts of copper in them which obviously you would not want to feed to your corals.

 

[redfishbluefish]

Would you like to share with us what your favorite fish food is?

My favorite (and my fishes favorite) is a flake food that was purchased through a member-group buy from Almost Natural Tropical Fish Food. My fish loved this stuff and we should probably do another group buy for this stuff…..I think the minimum was 25 pounds…..but it’s great food.

Are you going to run any test to see if your phosphates go up?

No!

 

[TanksNStuff]

As usual, great idea you got there Paul. I think I'll try this when I get my pound!