Best time to feed reef roids?

[Kial]

i never notice and feeding tentacles come out of any the corals I have in the tank even after lights go out. Things just retract and come back out in the morning. I know people say at night corals send out sweepers etc.

Currently I feed reef roids about once a week when lights are on and all corals are out.

 

[pharazon]

If you’re broadcast feeding, night time is usually best. Unless you’re like me (and several other people I’ve found on be internet) and have SPS that only have polyp extension during the day.

Personally I target feed, and polyp extension/sweepers doesn’t make a difference. If I squirt some Reef Roids on ‘em, they eat it.

 

[Katrina71]

I alternate day and night feeding.

 

[Tommy's Reef]

I feed rods day time, for meatier foods I feed at night, when lps tentacles are out and about.

 

[Kial]

Cool thanks. I’ve been mainly target feeding but may try the broadcast feeding after lights out

 

[homer1475]

I read an article a while back when I was researching the same thing.

The reason for feeding at night is that's when corals are accepting of meaty foods, and heres why.

In nature on the reef corals have zooxanthelle(sp?) to feed them during the day with photosynthesis, at night the zoox rest but the coral still wants food/energy to grow, so they tend to put out feeders at night in hopes of catching food.

You can of course train corals to accept food during the day, but your kind of defeating the entire purpose of feeding them.You feed them to provide them more food during the time of day when the zoox are resting and not feeding the coral.

I have always fed at night as this is when most of my corals are more accepting of meaty foods.