Feeding too much?

I have a long tentacle plate, green button polyps, yellow polyps and what I’m guessing a xenia of some sort (it pulses?). These corals seem to take brine shrimp at any opportunity and I typically spot feed them every day. My question is can you feed them too much?

John

 

I'd say you could/should cut down to a couple times a week.

 

I'm with LCP. I feed my livestock twice weekly. Cuts down on waste.

 

I don't think its a matter of feeding your corals to much, but rather feeding your "tank" too much. If you are feeding the corals, then later feeding the fish you may be feeding too much. But if you are feeding your corals and letting the fish "clean up the rest" and not feeding the fish anymore, then you may be ok. Because in actuality you are feeding your whole tank once a day, just concentrating it on the corals and letting the fish get the extras that float around. The point is, on "coral feeding" days you do not need to feed your fish.

 

The reason I was feeding those corals every day was to encourage growth but wasn’t sure if it would hurt them since grabbing food seems to be a reaction and not hunger based. The xenia for example was only about 3/8” long when I got it. It fell of a frag while the LFS kid was getting the yellow polyp for me. Since I have had it the size has doubled and is doing really well so it appears to helping it, as for the others increased growth is difficult to see.
I’m not sure why but I never gave any thought to the fact that they would be producing more waste? And as far as the excess food in the tank I use a medicine/eye dropper and the corals get 99.9% of the food so not much left over for the fish.

Thanks for your help!
John