Best time for feeding fish and corals?

[Reefrookie220]

Completely normal. Adding food to the water induces the feeding responses.

If you want to feed them you can get a 20oz bottle, cut the bottom off, put it over the coral and feed through the bottle. Just don't over do it to avoid nutrient issues.

 

[saltrookie53]

I can't tell if the frogspawn intakes the food or it shys away from it. But all the other LPS seem to close up and intake the food.

 

[dragon99]

I say all that to say this, that I think we over emphasize light as coral "food", and under emphasize the benefit of direct feeding of zooplankton.

Corals have some pretty elaborate, and even aggressive, means to catch and consume things from the water column! So much so that I myself would say that SPS is not mainly photosynthetic. I wonder if most of our SPS aren't in fact starving.

FWIW.

Studies support this.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2016/6/aafeature
Can corals thrive on light and inorganic nutrients alone? Preliminary research suggests scleractinian corals require an external organic food source in addition to light and inorganic nutrients to maintain normal growth.

While corals can survive on light alone, they will thrive if you feed them. When is the tricky part I guess, and depends on the coral. They don't force feed well.

 

[Reefrookie220]

With frogspawn, and other euphillyas I always feed the tank and fed them the "juices"left from the frozen food. They loved it.