Phytoplankton

Description

Phytoplankton is a natural marine algae that is a food source for many clams (and other bivalves), soft corals, sponges and zooplankton. It contains essential nutrients for health of marine fish and invertebrates

Phytoplankton is a photosynthetic food that is a base of all marine nutrition. This is because they do not rely on other organisms for food. Tiny zooplankton feed on ‘phyto’, then slightly larger creatures feed on these and so on until they eventually feed all ocean life right up to large predators.

There are about 5000 known species of phytoplankton. The one that we stock is Nannochloropsis sp. It is suitable for any marine aquarium but especially for reef aquariums.

Nannochloropsis sp. thrives on light but will quickly become used up in a reef aquarium by all of the microforna and corals.

This product is best used with live marine copepods and live mysis shrimp. Marine copepods and mysis shrimp will both feed on phytoplankton making them far more nutritious to you marine inhabitants when they eat the live ‘pods’ and mysis.

Phyto is also great for corals and will improve coral colour, polyp extension and growth rates.

This live food can be very beneficial for helping to maintain water quality too because it absorbs nutrients from the water to grow.

Feeding instructions

You can’t really overdose. However, here are our feeding recommendations:

• 1 x 100-115ml pouch feeds 50-100 litres of aquarium water
• 1 x 1000ml bottle feeds 500-1000 litres of aquarium water
• Lightly stocked aquariums: feed once a week
• Medium stocked aquariums: feed every two to three days
• Heavily stocked aquariums: feed every one to two days
• Keep the pouches / bottle in the fridge until you use them
• Shake well before use
• This is a live food product, it is fine to use in combination with other coral foods such as Red Sea Coral Nutrition AB+