How do you feed your corals?

[Incredible Corals]

My tank is now packed with a mixed variety of SPS, LPS and softies. I want to focus on growth. I have plenty of light (96 leds), plenty of flow (4800 gph total) and 10%/week religious water change schedule.

 

Here are my questions:

 

- What do you feed your corals?

 

- Do you target feed or dose the entire tank?

 

- What have you had the best success with?

 

 

Thanks!

Edited December 13, 2010 by forrealb50

[trockafella]

Poor rods food or other coral food in front and or over top the vortech and let nature take its course.! And I have been using coral frenzy2 to 3 times a week and have been happy, along with rods a few times a week.

Edited December 13, 2010 by trockafella

[Incredible Corals]

Poor rods food or other coral food in front and or over top the vortech and let nature take its course.! And I have been using coral frenzy2 to 3 times a week and have been happy, along with rods a few times a week.

 

I've been doing the rods infront of the powerhead for a while and I know the fish like it. I just checked out coral frenzys's website. Seems like a simple product. I'll order that next time I place an order online.

 

Thanks!

[OldReefer]

I have been using frozen Cyclopeze for the smaller fish and bigger coral. For the SPS I usually just blow off the rocks and stir up the san a bit when the lights go out. I also use some Golden Pears once in a while. If you need any of that, I have more than I will every use.

 

 

 

 

[angel not fish]

I got reef nutrition and I saw difference right at first day. I am using the pyto and oyster. I highly recommend.

[baio44]

I use rods and cyclopeez for direct and indirect feeding. For the indirect, I place a small frozen piece on the intake of my koralia. The suction holds it there and then shoots it out all broken up across the tank. I also use mysis and live brine shrimp. For my clam, I sometimes turn a cup upside down over the clam and then fill it with phytoplantkon (is this OK?).

 

-Jeff

[Coral Hind]

I just turn the lights on and off every day, nothing else. I have never really seen any benefits from direct feedings.

[lowsingle]

I target feed lps with mysis once every two weeks or so and once in a blue moon I will dose reef booster from prodibio as a general feeding for the tank.

 

cheers,

Darren

[OUsnakebyte]

I find variety to be the spice of life...

 

I mixup a slurry of frozen rotifers, cyclopeez, live brine, oyster eggs, coral frenzy, mysis shrimp and decapsulated brine eggs. I've also started using chaete treat, seen here:

 

Chaete Treat

 

For larger corals and anemones, I will feed them whole or chopped shrimp/smelt/whatever meaty item. You might have to cover the coral, if possible, with an egg-crate "hat" or something other of your creative design to keep those pesky fish from stealing the food.

 

Pay mind to your water quality, of course.

 

Cheers

Mike

[zygote2k]

I feed the whole tank a variety of foods like cyclopeeze, freeze dried brine, freeze dried rotifers, spray dried phyto, New Life Spectrum micro pellets, and sometimes some frozen food.

[Incredible Corals]

Okay it seems like I'm already doing the right thing by feeding the entire tank rods which has almost all that stuff in it. However, I don't target feed. Anyone have a lot of sucess with target feeding? Everything I read is about 50/50 on the topic.

[reefhunter]

I do not feed my corals. I probably should feed my LPS but I dont.

[roni]

spray the sun coral and some of the lps with a mixture of pellets and frozen mysids. my fish steal most of it but some gets through.

[ErikS]

I do not feed my corals. I probably should feed my LPS but I dont.

 

Feed 'em? No, well aside from fish stuff. I only have one LPS (well one variety anyway) - I have no idea what would happen if I fed them. Others? nope once again......unless you count light which doesn't feed them directly anyway.

[BowieReefer84]

Try a vial of Prodibio reefbooster every few weeks if you want to add some additional food, or marine snow. I have fed corals in the past with frozen foods, and always ended up with algae and higher nitrates due to all the "excess" food. I don't think it is really needed.