CONTINUUM Ocean Snow Marine Snow Replicator (clean coral food)

Description

Marine snow describe the continuous shower of organic and inorganic particles
Replicates natural process by providing a rich source of both organic and inorganic nutrients simultaneously
Provides aragonite based inorganic minerals, as well as rich marine proteins and lipids in ratios necessary for coral growth.
Provides an excellent means of supplying both organic and inorganic nutrients to filter feeding invertebrates of all types
Useful for hard and soft corals, tube worms, clams, sponges, tunicates and others.
May be used as a food soak or added to food soak

Marine snow is a word first coined by American naturalist, marine biologist, and explorer William Beebe in the 1930’s to describe the continuous shower of organic and inorganic particles that he observed from his bathysphere.
In the ocean, marine snow provides a means of transporting nutrient rich matter from the photic zone near the surface towards the ocean floor. Continuum Ocean Snow replicates this process by providing a rich source of both organic and inorganic nutrients simultaneously. It provides aragonite based inorganic minerals, as well as rich marine proteins and lipids in ratios necessary for coral growth.

Use in aquarium keeping.
Ocean Snow provides an excellent means of supplying both organic and inorganic nutrients to filter feeding invertebrates of all types. It is useful for hard and soft corals, tube worms, clams, sponges, tunicates and others.
Continuum recommends that the hobbyist vary the types and sizes of foods delivered into the reef aquarium. Other Continuum foods that make good choices for this food rotation include Coral Exponential, Micro Blast, ZooBlast and PhytoBlast.

Also, occasionally blending the foods and using them as soaks for other foods will give your invertebrates a variety simulating nature. Vary the time of day for feeding, as well, being sure to feed at night for those organisms that primarily feed nocturnally. Many corals feed primarily at night, extending their tentacles and mesentarial filaments, using their nematocysts to capture prey, and entrapping prey on their sticky tentacles with mucus and drawing it into their mouths.

Directions and protocol.

Shake well prior to use.
Add 1 capful (5 ml) per 50 US-gallons (200 L) of marine aquarium water 2 to 3 times per week.
May be used as a food soak or added to food soak.

Expert use.
Target feeding is the best method of addition. Use a turkey baster, pipette, or similar tool to release upstream of animals to be fed. Do not touch corals with tool.
Do not insert tool into this bottle, particularly do not allow aquarium water to enter the bottle, to do so will introduce bacteria into the product and accelerate its decomposition. Instead, pour appropriate amount of Ocean Snow into a cup and use the tool in the cup.
Feed all that you pour and do not return any product to the container (again to prevent contamination).

Caution: Keep out of reach of children.
Not for human consumption.
If ingested drink water. If in eyes flush with water.

Continuum Ocean Snow Coral Food for Reef Filter Feeders

Ocean Snow recreates the marine snow that drifts down through the ocean, the continuous shower of organic and inorganic particles that filter-feeding life evolved to capture. It delivers both at once: aragonite-based inorganic minerals alongside marine proteins and lipids in ratios geared toward coral growth. That dual nature is the point, because supplying organic nutrients and inorganic building blocks together feeds hard and soft corals, tube worms, clams, sponges and tunicates more completely than a protein-only food.

You can use it as a food soak or add it directly to other foods, which makes it flexible to fold into an existing reef feeding routine. For Singapore reefers running mixed tanks, a clean filter-feeder food that does not dump excess organics is valuable, since our warm water already pushes nutrient and algae growth. Feed with pumps briefly eased so the particles stay suspended long enough for slow feeders to catch them, then resume normal flow.

Find more in our coral food & supplements range. Our coral food guide and reef maintenance schedule help you build a feeding rhythm that fits your tank.