What is your favorite fish food in pellet and flake form? For reef tanks

[Smite]

I've had a decent explosion of branching hydroids. They are just about everywhere shaded in my tank now. I've been controlling my phosphates battling dinos by feeding reef roids a few times a week as needed. I believe that is how they got so bad. I've noticed a few acropora near them having issues with coloration and some tn. I suspect they are getting stung and irritated.

I normally feed rod's and reef frenzy frozen. I'm going to try and cut down on foods with particles in hopes to starve some of these guys out.... SO, what is your favorite pellet and/or flake for your reef tank? I need a smaller sized pellet for some of my fish.

Also open to hear how anyone has dealt with hydroids in the past. I feel like I've had the ones that stick to glass and they work themselves out over time. These almost look like bacterial film/hair they are so small. So far mostly only in the shaded area. I think the tangs pick them off while grazing for algae, not sure.

 

[Gedxin]

I had hydroids as one of my first pests. After many months they eventually went away on their own, but I was not feeding reef roids. You could try dosing nitrates/phosphates, that would solve the water column particulate issue and keep nutrients up.

I feed hikari s and hikari seaweed extreme. Also the smallest BRS pellets. Also reef nutrition prime reef flakes. Still got dinos though I should take my own advice on just dosing nutes.

 

[mattyzang]

I like the tdo pellets, small and medium size

nls pellets, the probiotic ones

and pe mysis pellets and flakes, 1mm size pellets

 

[JojosReef]

TDO small and medium. My RFAs eat them too.

 

[Tangwich]

Flakes - zoo med spirulina flakes

Pellets - tdo small or medium pellets

 

[drexel]

TDO and NLS (regular marine and algaemax) for pellets. Cool Green and Cool Mysis for flakes. These flakes are the best that I've ever used, hand packed and high quality. They don't crumble into dust and they are so cheap compared to other flake foods.
Buy here or direct from Brine Shrimp Direct.

 

[resortez]

Flake wise, I still trust the German made Tetra marine flakes & my fish love it. New life spectrum pellets because my LFS feeds that specific brand, the fish I buy from my LFS take to it very quickly & love it. I stick to what my LFS feeds in order to continue a consistent diet. I also feed 4 different types of Hikari frozen food, Julian sprung sea veggies & live black worms.

 

[Smite]

Thanks for all the recommendations everyone. I'll be checking them all out!

@Gedxin glad to hear the hydroids worked themselves out. I feel like I've seen these in previous systems so hopefully that's the case with mine as well.

I actually just found a puddle behind my sump. Turns out my alk line got clogged in my sump and blew my tubing off and behind the sump. Rookie move but I haven't ran a doser if forever, should have been checking. I couldn't see it back there and didnt find it until I tested my parameters today. Alk dropped from 9.3 to 6.7 sometime in the last 3 days. Thats probably my culprit for the pissed off coral.

TDO sounds like a winner for pellets, although the probiotic sound cool @mattyzang. Part of why I feed the forzen I do is to maintain good gut health with the fish. I've tried the pe brand but for some reason half my tank doesn't care for them.

@ Drexel I think you showed me those flakes when I stopped by last time, I'll give those a go. Thanks for the link!

@resortez that's awesome your LFS has live blackworms. Tongs carried them forever but has been dry for the most part. I struggled to get my CBB to eat anything else and ended up losing him last week. Already see an aiptasia popping up now major bummer. I feed nori daily but just use the store bought stuff. I'd really love to set up a large refugium so I could offer some live algae for the tangs.

 

[pledosophy]

A bit late but another vote for TDO. I mix the pellet size as well. All goes into the auto feeder.

Lately I have been supplementing with Brightwell's Reef Blizzard L- soaked in Brightwell's amino acid, but I am a Brightwell fan boy so that is a bit expected lol.

 

[Smite]

@pledosophy I'm a fan as well. I was using reef blizzard on my last system, the super fine particle geared towards filter feeders and stony coral. It worked great and didn't seem to raise any nutrients. I'd dose their coral amino a few minutes before I dosed the blizzard to trigger a feed response and it seemed to work well.

I'm going to pick up some TDO and hopefully CARX media later today. Thanks for all the suggestions

 

[mattyzang]

i like variety so i'll probably always feed at least a couple types, but if i had to stick to one pellet it'd be the tdo ones for sure

 

[Cazjam]

Hello everybody,
I use the spectrum pellets but am finding out they sink real well when coming out of the auto feeder. Is there another pellet that sinks better?
Thank you.

 

[dan0303]

As Drexel stated, the Cool Green and Cool Mysis flakes are great! My fish love this and go nuts for this mix. I have this mixed with some hikari pellets in my automated feeder to feed the fish throughout the day.

 

[wishntoboutside]

I am a huge fan of Easy Reefs DK pellets. The smell of this food is like no other and have had great results with getting all fish to eat this.

 

[OGFrenchHorn]

Like others, TDO, NLS, and hikari seaweed extreme.


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[anthonys_aqua]

my favorite flakes are either Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef Flakes or brine shrimp direct cool mysis and cool green (really cheap too for the amount you get and hand packed) also cs pro flakes

dont feed too much pellets but when i do tdo or pe mysis

 

[JojosReef]

Crazy, I got a TDO sample with an order and gave it to my clowns in my home tank that eat NLS Thera+ pellets and frozen/liquid foods. They just spit out the TDO and gave me a real stink eye! My blenny and firefish in my office tank LOVE TDO...