Reef Roids Coral Food

[kgator]

Does anybody have any experience with this coral food? I was going to get some for my tank but wanted to get some opinions first. Anything you can tell me, good or bad, would be helpful. Thanks

 

[jwils27]

I use it. And I know a lot of people with nice tanks are use it. But I have no objective data other than my tank is healthy and my SPS grow good. But that is always a combination of things.

 

[dball711]

I use it and find it to be the most easily mixed of the powdered coral foods that I use. The other powdered coral foods are use are reef chili & NLS Nutri-cell in addition to a few liquid or frozen coral foods. I feed the powered foods after lights out (around midnight) by rotating the 3 food and this is done daily. Hope that helps

 

[Eric_n_Ga]

I use a combination of reef roids and a mixed frozen food from rods , also a few drops of phyto . I use a 1/4 teaspoon of RR, a dime size chunk of food and melt it in tank water . Let it sit about 20min and it spot feed everything with pumps off .I leave the pumps off about 10 min then kick them back on . I feed on wed and again Sunday before water change.

Everything seems to react positively . Good growth over the last month or so since starting . Euphyllia,zoas,shrooms,sps everything likes it .

 

[Tanster2]

I feed it to a bunch of my corals. My mushrooms LOVE it. It definitely seems to make my coral happy.

Best way to use it is to mix a small amount of salt water so it's very viscous, and feed it to each coral individually with a feeding syringe. Corals get happy and you don't have excess food that won't be eaten.

 

[saltlife]

tagging along... good information.
do you turn the pump and skimmer off, while feeding. if so... how long you keep them in off

 

[phi79]

I use it and love it but I fell like I’m feeding my hair algea too

 

[sharis100]

My mixed reef tank loves it x2 weekly. Small 1/4 tsp with frozen food and tank water- broadcast feed the entire tank. Also dose with the polyplab booster prior to broadcast feeding.

 

[FutureInterest]

I use it as well. All the corals seem to respond to it. I've tried some of the other similar foods out there and have less success getting feeding responses.

 

[kgator]

Thanks for all the responses everyone. I think I will pick some up from Simon and try it out.

 

[adamdaniel210]

It works well for most people. I have personally seen it recover a scoly that was almost completely dead by regular feeding it probably reduced the recovery time by almost half. But in some smaller tanks that arnt heavily stocked it can cause a rise in nitrates because of not being utilized before it breaks down in the system just as something to keep in mind

 

[Onefallleaf]

Yes, great food. I use it in combination with Benepets reef food. I leave the pumps on when feeding SPS, they get really great reaction and polyps usually grab the food from the mixed flow. For LPS, I turn off the flow after SPS had a good time to eat. Also gives good time for tentacles to come out and fully extend.

 

[firethorn77]

My nassarious snails would fly out of the sand bed when I put it in the tank.