Coral Feeding

Discussion in 'Coral' started by gazog, Feb 7, 2008.

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  1. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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    I would like to know what everyone is feeding their tanks. As I don’t have a lot of fish to feed I was wondering
    what I should use as a supplemental coral food. I currently am target feeding brine and mysis to my candy canes,
    sun corals, Brain coral and anything else that will eat it. I also feed my hermit crabs, snails and emerald crabs
    crab pellets and my fish eat them and the brine and mysis.

    I know that most of what I have in my tank doesn’t require much more than light but I know when the extra
    shrimp gets on my s’hrooms and ricordia’s they fold up and when they open its gone.

    So I guess what I am asking, is there a good all around food that I should be using to feed the rest of my tank
    or it the excess from the shrimp and the food that I am feeding to my crabs enough?

    Guess I should mentioned I have pretty much a little bit of everything depending on which tank your
    talking about, LPS, S'hrooms and Polyps, Leathers, and a couple of SPS in my frag tank.
     
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  3. ziggy222

    ziggy222 Fire Goby

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  4. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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  5. gazog

    gazog Kole Tang

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    What nobody is feed their corals? come on Guys and Gals I am sure I not the only one who is interested in this.
     
  6. chuckdee

    chuckdee Peppermint Shrimp

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    I feed brine, mysis shrimp, plankton and daphnia to my fish and the corals usually chow down on it also, but for the most part, my coral food is Kent's Phytoplankton, Zooplankton, Micro-Vert, Chromaplex and Two Little Fishes Marine Snow. I feed once or twice daily. I usually pick one-three combinations of food, mix, and feed.. I can say I have had good luck with this method. Fish are fat, and corals are healthy..
     
  7. lunatik_69

    lunatik_69 Giant Squid

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    I also feed frozen blood worms, mysis, brine, and squid(fish and sun coral). As for the corals, they get Reef Solutions(trace elements), Kent Marine's Coral-Vite(vitamins & more) and I just started to use Liquid Life's MarinePlankton and BioPlankton and wow what a difference.
     
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  9. reef_guru

    reef_guru Humpback Whale

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    my corals are fed phyto and pappone method
     
  10. Otty

    Otty Giant Squid

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    I feed my cyclopeze or reef chili or oyster eggs only 2 times a week. For you only having the largest tank being a 20g I would watch the possibility of over feeding. That will cause you harm later in the tanks life.
     
  11. phoenixhieghts

    phoenixhieghts Panda Puffer

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    i throw some frozen rotifers in my tank for the coral
     
  12. ziggy222

    ziggy222 Fire Goby

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    i shut the sump off then drop a peace of this in.its for reef tanks.it has baby brine,brine,brocoli carrots,clam,fish eggs,garlic,7 sizes of golden pearls,krill,mysis shrimp,nori green roasted and unroasted,octopus,one eyed red plankton,oyster,oyster eggs,perch or grouper,rotifers,scallop,selco,shrimp,squid.all blended up and frozen in a block.i toss about a square inch of it in the sump every other day and let the pump pump it into the tank.everything goes nuts,lps corals open and feed,its cool,fish go nuts