Coral Feeding Thread

I Mix Phyto, mysis and oyster eggs together in rodi water, feed twice a week via turky baster with the pumps and powerheads off for about 45 min to a hr.

Candy cane- each head
Lobo Brain(2)
Hammer coral- each head
Torch coral- each head

 

For SPS, I have a few birdsnest and plating and encrusting monti's so far... for LPS, a candy cane, LT plate coral, and frogspawn.

I feed the fish mostly mysis, red and green laver, squid, octopus, scallops, and "marine cuisine". The corals get some of the food that floats into them and fish poop, which I understand is supposed to be the best food for SPS.

 

nice recipe. I take it you feed LPS/SPS and fish with this all at once?

 

Spot feed 3x weekly: Cyclops, Squid, Mussles, Mysis, Coral Frenzy soaked
in DI water for 10min. Strain, soak in Selcon 10 more
min. Add tank water.

Bigger pieces/chunks fall to bottom. Fine
pieces/particles stay mostly on top.

Feed using 60cc syringe, depending on coral type.
Duncans, Dendros, Acans, Lobos, Favia, Ricordea,
Palys, Chalice, Maze, Gonio, Scoly, Trachy

Only SPS are Montis (for now ;D)

 

Question for those feeding frogspawns and hammers; exactly how do you feed them? With my trumpets/acans you know for certain they're eating what you give due to them sucking it in. Neither my frogspawn nor hammer seem to respond to target feeding. I've thrown mysis and Rod's Food at them, even blown it directly into their tentacles, and it seems that most of it drifts out as soon as I turn on the pumps.

Are they not hungry or am I doing something wrong?

 

I only directly feed a duncan, all heads and a hydnophora. All other lps, softies, and sps gets what floats by.

Rods foods works well for me. I tried the amino acid route but developed algae problems, even with a skimmer............

Turkey baster, every 4 to 5 days, with pumps off. And I add some to the water and wait about 10 minutes, before actually feeding, so the corals have already started their feeding response.

The rest of the time quality pellets for the fish, to keep nutrients low.

 

I turn off powerheads and use a pipette to squirt it directly into the middle of the polyp, I know they eat it because they swell up and poop afterwards.

However my colony was fickle at times and wouldn't eat, they seem to eat more in better water quality.

 

I have a large Carnation Coral, 3 colonies of Dendrophyllia and 4 gorgonians in my tank, all of which I have had for at least 3 years. I feed my corals fed 2-3 times per week alternating with live baby brine shrimp, frozen cyclops, Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Phyton and TM Pro-Coral Zooton . I target feed my LPS corals thawed and rinsed frozen mysis in the evenings a couple times per week too.