Broadcast feeding corals?

[Miami Reef]

Quick question. My tank is way too tall for me to reach all my corals, and frankly, I don’t have the patience to get every single coral fed and having to turn off the flow each time I feed. I feed my fish pellets, but I want to switch to brine shrimp. I would feed like I would with pellets, but the food will be able to make its rounds around the tank without sinking immediately.

Will this method work for coral feeding? Is there a specific food I should be feeding them? Also, I have a mixture of different soft and lps coral, do I feed in the day, or night?

 

[NS Mike D]

julien thing has two rigid tubes so you can reach corals all the way - they are each either 18" or 24" long so that's a long rcach combined.

most corals don't need spot feeding and will do fine with broadcast feeding. however, like fish, they have prefer different sizes - duncans and anemomies gobble up brine and mysis, the flower pots prefer powdery foods like reef roids and zooplan.

i mix it up. some days i just feed pellets for the fish. most days I feed a mix of brine and myssis. every few days i also feed either reef roids or zooplan.

I definitely spot feed the goniopora and feather duster with the powdery food. i like watching the duncans and bta eat so i do spot feed them the bigger foods.

i most certainly turn off my pumps during feeding since i don't want to feed my sump/filter. i ended up putting my pumps on a separate power strip so I can turn them on and off with a single flip of a switch

 

[mahindra.dev]

Quick question. My tank is way too tall for me to reach all my corals, and frankly, I don’t have the patience to get every single coral fed and having to turn off the flow each time I feed. I feed my fish pellets, but I want to switch to brine shrimp. I would feed like I would with pellets, but the food will be able to make its rounds around the tank without sinking immediately.

Will this method work for coral feeding? Is there a specific food I should be feeding them? Also, I have a mixture of different soft and lps coral, do I feed in the day, or night?

+1 @NS Mike D

I spot feed with a syringe and sometimes with Julian’s. Reefroids is excellent. My acans, goniopora and lobos go crazy.

Mysis and Brine for the Duncan, anemone. I used to broadcast feed but now I’m in love with spotfeeding. I do it once a week. Either methods should work. When I do feed all flow is off for 30mins and skimmer is offline for 8hrs.

I’ve tried many Brightwell aquatics products, Marine snow, Reef chili and Reefroids. Now I stick to Reefroids only as that gave me the best results.

 

[Krzydmnd]

"I don’t have the patience to get every single coral fed"

I get it... I have to sit for 20 mins with my net handle keeping the skunk shrimp at bay from stealing food out of acan and Lobo mouths whenever I feed them pellets. [emoji28]

 

[John3]

Broadcast feeding randomly works but 90% won’t get to a polyp. Broadcast feeding powdered type foods works good but really only for corals with small polyps and small feeders. I believe larger corals like acans for example the powder food does more teasing than anything.

Spot feeding works the best but takes the longest and most patience. I try to do it once a week. I just use normal raw shrimp that I dice up into small cubes. My baster has a point that I can put a cube on and then let the corals feeders grab it off. Funny thing is that all my corals love regular old shrimp but are not too keen on the frozen mysis or brine. They will grab it but they don’t hold on as tight.

 

[Holy_makerel]

I spot feed once a week with reefroids and my frozen mix i make. Feed my fish everyday with nori, frozen, and some pellets since my foxface likes those better than frozen foods(its a little crazy haha). I made a feeding tube for spot feeding the corals.

It's a little time consuming but i feel it helps with overall health and growth