Ocean Nutrition Formula Two Pellets

[flubberina13]

Hey...just wanna share after successful feedings for three weeks and more liao...

Just wanted to experiment and it also happened when I was left with nothing to feed them one fine day...

Suncorals multiplied and brain developed another mouth. Now has three mouths...Kinda ugly actually...

[flubberina13]

Here's the suncorals...notice the small polyps below bigger ones?

[Michael Young]

Gee... how do you actually feed the pellets to them? I'm selling the product and yet not try feeding them to my brain corals.

[flubberina13]

I throw them in and they sort of 'soaked' in some moisture then I use the tweezers and place them gently near the mouths of the brain and near the waving 'tentacles' of the suncorals...

Each mouth of the brain can take in about three pellets and each polyp of the suncorals will take in two pellets or so and feeding is twice a week or so ...

Overfeeding?.....

[KingFish]

Same here

I have good results with the Formula Two Pellets as my fishes take to them easily.

Its soft to feel, almost moist, and has a enticing smell.

No problem for fishes hiding in the rocks to pick up the scent.

Floats well in the water column as well, so it gets the fishes into a feeding frenzy, with many tight turns and random displays of finage.

Tried them in my Gobies tank too, the Yashia picked them off easily leaving the hover gobies to pick them off the sandbed

[flubberina13]

Just for info...I also use them in my self-prepared food...

Best is...it contains spirulina...

[Michael Young]

I throw them in and they sort of 'soaked' in some moisture then I use the tweezers and place them gently near the mouths of the brain and near the waving 'tentacles' of the suncorals...

Each mouth of the brain can take in about three pellets and each polyp of the suncorals will take in two pellets or so and feeding is twice a week or so ...

Overfeeding?.....

You are not feeding nearly enough in my opinion... Just try to pull a fast one.

[sherman]

Sis,

How u actually feed them.Especially the suncoral.Target feed?

I find it very tiring target feeding them because they are place on the sandbed.So have to stretch my hand all the way down the tank to target feed them.

Also care to share your prepare food formula.

Regards n Thanks

Sherman

[Achilles Tang]

I can verify Flubberina's findings. I was there personally to observe the feeding of pellet food to her sun corals. It's amazing!

She switches off the water circulation and drops a pellet in each polyp, they'll close up over the pellet and ingest it.

I guess the krill content makes it a substitute for meaty foods?

[Achilles Tang]

I can verify Flubberina's findings. I was there personally to observe the feeding of pellet food to her sun corals. It's amazing!

She switches off the water circulation and drops a pellet in each polyp, they'll close up over the pellet and ingest it.

I guess the krill content makes it a substitute for meaty foods?

[flubberina13]

Hope I wun get into any legality issues with the posting of the ingredients...but here's some of the ingredients found and the usage...

1) sardine, squid & shrimp meal --the norm for feeding most corals...

2) plankton ---

3) kelp --- algae substitute for most herbivore eating fish and good for growth...

4) alfalfa ---appetite stimulant, protein and calcium sources for bone building and growth...

5) salmon egg oil ---the Omega 3 thingy...

6) Spirulina --- for enhanced colouring...

7) potassium iodide --- for wounds healing and small cuts...

8) ferrous sulphate --- for blood formation and oxidation purposes...

9) manganese sulphate - for skin?

10) amino acids ---

11) carotenoid stuff --- for eyesight

12) vitamins --- man got to eat, fish got to eat too...

Anymore contributions?

[terryansimon]

is that your own recipe or the ocean nutrition formula two pellet recipe?

and also, where did you get those pellets? they sound mighty interesting to me. (=

[sherman]

Sis,

Thank You for the receipt.

Beside 1,6 and 12.I think most of them I never see before.

Where to get all these items.

Regards

Sherman

[Michael Young]

Sis,

Thank You for the receipt.

Beside 1,6 and 12.I think most of them I never see before.

Where to get all these items.

Regards

Sherman

Sherman, she was referring to the ingredients of Ocean Nutrition Formula 2 pellets not a recipe for you to concoct your own fish feed.

Terryansimon, you can find Ocean Nutrition products in most marine LFS. If yours doesn't carry ON products, please inform me and I'll contact them. BTW, there's also a contest on my forum where you stand to win one bottle each of ON Formula 1 and Formula 2 pellets plus one bottle each of BioPlankton and CoralPlankton.

[Pinnacle]

tried the pellets on my sun coral last night... the individual poly sucked in the pellet quite readily.... but u need to observe it carefully, because after 5 to 10 minutes or so, all the polys will spit the pellets out.... quite amazing....

flubberina13, did your sun coral spit out the pellets after a while? I fed mine with cyclop-eeze and mysis shrimps and it ate it quite well. Maybe i should try the pellets again....

But, next time when u feed ur coral, please help to verify whether they will spit them out after 5 minutes? thanks.

[terryansimon]

Terryansimon, you can find Ocean Nutrition products in most marine LFS. If yours doesn't carry ON products, please inform me and I'll contact them.

rightO. thanks! (=

you reckon Marine Life sells them?

[Michael Young]

rightO. thanks! (=

you reckon Marine Life sells them?

No. Marine Life doesn't have them. Tried selling them to Henry but he wasn't interested. Pehaps you'd like to ask him? If you're in the West Coast area, go to either Polyart, C328 or Lakeside Aquatics in Jurong West.

[terryansimon]

hmm

how about PetMart? I don't really jump around LFSes.

urh. what about...Paradiz Reef?

[Michael Young]

hmm

how about PetMart? I don't really jump around LFSes.

urh. what about...Paradiz Reef?

Petmart yes. PR no.

[terryansimon]

thanks a million. will pop by there to try to get some. (=

[flubberina13]

tried the pellets on my sun coral last night... the individual poly sucked in the pellet quite readily.... but u need to observe it carefully, because after 5 to 10 minutes or so, all the polys will spit the pellets out.... quite amazing....

flubberina13, did your sun coral spit out the pellets after a while? I fed mine with cyclop-eeze and mysis shrimps and it ate it quite well. Maybe i should try the pellets again....

But, next time when u feed ur coral, please help to verify whether they will spit them out after 5 minutes? thanks.

Well...let's see...I have fifty plus polyps to feed and by the time I finish the last one, I dun see any loose pellets around. And I do enjoy looking at them eating...plus I got two brains, four mouths to feed plus observing my pets' conditions...All in all...I spend at least twenty minutes around them...

Nup...I dun think they spit it out...

Maybe your suncorals have only one preference and wouldn't settle for second best...

Moreover, if they didn't digest the pellets...chances are...my suncorals will be dead by now as they haven't tasted any other food since a month or so ago...

[flubberina13]

Sherman, she was referring to the ingredients of Ocean Nutrition Formula 2 pellets not a recipe for you to concoct your own fish feed.

William Hung in the making...

[Pinnacle]

ok, thanks flubberina13...

i quite like the idea of feeding it with the pellet, less waste to introduce into the tank.... maybe i will try it later to see whether they spit them out again...

very hardworking feeding your pets indeed....

[flubberina13]

for a start...maybe they are not used to it...try soaking them for a few minutes in a small disc with a few drops of the tank water...

[Gambit]

can post a pic of how the container looks like??

interested in buying leh....

but dun want to buy wrong one..