Do you feed Phytoplankton?

If so, brand name and where do you get it? Live or not?

 

also! how often do you dose it?

 

Yes but only to my unlit fuge/pod factory.
brand: Reef Nutrition Phyto Feast.

 

Unlighted fuge? Please share!

 

Fuge is short for refugium. I use my refugium as a refuge for pods free from preditors. Somewhere down the line in the past someone decided that it was a good idea to put algae down there to control nitrates and phosphate. Those coming up in the hobby now beleive that refugiums are prilmarily for growing algae.

I employ a different and IMO more efficient method for controlling nitrate and phosphate, I have no need to add the algae, therefore my refugium is only a home for pods.

The only thing in my refugium is a deep sand bed, live rock, sponges, and pods. My bio pellet reactor feeds water into the fuge and it then returns to the tank. I used to feed the pellet reactor to the skimmer as many do however over time I found that there was a huge population of pods living in my reactor living off the mulm from the pellets. At that point, I came to the decision to feed the fuge with the pellet reactor. Since then the pod population has exploded.

 

what bio pellets do you run?

 

Nice, thats an interesting way to do it. Might have to think about that if i decide to add a a fuge.

 

so i should do this? to help keep my pods alive? to help feed my mandarins?

 

My grape caulerpa algae seems to be a massive den for pods.

 

No disrespect intended but lets not hijack Nana's thread bro.
P.S. you could.