feeding corals

[loudog42362]

What does everybody feed their sps tanks

 

[acroholic]

Mine get whatever their little polyps can grab out of the water when I feed the fish. I don't purpose feed mine very often .

Some folks use Coral Frenzy or Reef Chili.

 

[johnr2604]

Acroholic;410253 wrote: Mine get whatever their little polyps can grab out of the water when I feed the fish. I don't purpose feed mine very often .

Some folks use Coral Frenzy or Reef Chili.

Same here for the most part.

 

[loudog42362]

Really I've heard some people at stores reccomend dosing zooplankton? Maybe it was just a sales point I had considered phyto

 

[skriz]

I've never fed my corals & have always had tremendous growth & colouration. The corals will catch any food particles the fish don't consume as well as fish poop.

 

[coolsurf]

I do PhytoFeast, Marine Snow, Liquid Reef, Zooplanktos-L and MicroBacter7 along with Cyclopeeze. Not all together but rotating them out. Does it work? Who knows but thats what I do.

 

[salt reefer]

i use zooplex and phytoplankton. as wel as frozenfood cyclopeez.bloodworms ,brine shrimp .miesms shrimp.krell, and that covers fish and corals they lve it.

 

[acroholic]

At MACNA in '08, there was a speaker on how SPS corals got their nutrition, and 90% comes from photosyntheseis, and the other 10% is from their feeder tentacles, so I don't really worry about it much.

I've been trying to feed the My Miami Frag some mysis shrimp, but whenever I feed, my fire shrimp and emerald crabs scoot out and try to steal it. So I may just feed some Reef Chili and Coral Frenzy in the water column and let the chalices use their feeder tentacles.
Dave

 

[acroholic]

Yea....part of why I feed once in a while is it is nice to see chalice feeder tentacles. Some of my chalices have feeders 3+ inches long. You only see those when lights are out.

 

[acroholic]

I hae a Rhyzotrochus that I have to feed,though (in the 60 cube), and the emerald crabs will actually reach their claws down into the Rhyzos's mouth and pull the food out that it is trying to swallow. So I bought one of those square plastic paper clip holders from the container store. When I feed the Rhyzo, I place this plastic holder down over it so nothing can get to it. I pull it out after about 30 minutes.
Dave

 

[fullmonti]

I feed some of the zeo supplements, colors improved noticeably.

 

[soarin']

Hey acro, you've got just about everything -- a My Miami chalice *and* a rhyzotrochus.

Wow!

I noticed that after I started feeding my tank a lot my sps started coloring up -- apparently all my vodka dosing had gotten them pretty pale before. I was just feeding flakes to keep the sexy shrimp well fed.