Coral feeding. What do you feed your corals?

FrootStick · May 2, 2016

Hey All,

So I've gotten over some hurdles my tank put in my way. Everything is starting to look good again. Finally!
I'm looking at starting to feed my corals. Mainly LPS with a few SPS and some softies. So a mixed bag!
I was feeding Reef Roids, a few times a week and occasionally drop in some frozen mysis in with the Reef Roids.
So my question here is, what do you feed your corals? How often? And spot feeding or dumping.
As I have a lot of acans I was thinking of some type of pellet, but not sure what's the best quality and what I should do.
Some of that Nyos stuff looks interesting.

Thanks all

Wilsoni · May 2, 2016

Welcome! I use LRS and Fauna Marin LPS pellets.

Wilsoni · May 2, 2016

Definitely use the fine particle foods such as Reef Roids sparingly

dakoop · May 2, 2016

spot feed Fauna Marin LPS pellets. Try to limit how much you put in

MermaidTail · May 2, 2016

My Acans and sun coral love the mix of frozen mysis and brine shrimp that I spot feed them. I use a baster and spot feed directly into their mouths after lights off. They look great and seem very happy!

jsker · May 2, 2016

Welcome to R2R, I am Broadcast feeding Reef Nutrition Oyster feast, R.O.E., and Roti feast

Salty1962 · May 2, 2016

I feed mine Reef Chilli, Reef Frenzy and aminos. @ 2x a week.

Psiber_Syn · May 2, 2016

Along with everyone else mysis, brine, reef chilli ,roids, phyto in doser and zooplankton 2 times a week also have fuel on doser think they get plenty of food lol

FrootStick · May 3, 2016

Wilsoni said:
Welcome! I use LRS and Fauna Marin LPS pellets.

Thanks for the welcomes guys. Been a long time reader. Probably the best reef tank forum around.
What the LRS mate?

Davesgt · May 3, 2016

I feed LRS (It's a frozen food that's amazing), I use reef roids to broadcast feed and fauna Marin pellets to spot feed acans and mushrooms.

FrootStick · May 3, 2016

You get so much better stuff and better access to heaps over there compared to Australia.

Waters · May 3, 2016

I rarely feed my coral....when I do, I use Mysis for the LPS and Reef Chili for the SPS.

Carolina Clownfish · May 3, 2016

We use Reef Roids from PolypLab, frozen brine shrimp eggs, and live Rotifers, twice a week, broadcast in our SPS tank. We use LRS Reef Frenzy for LPS coral. Actually, we dose live Rotifers in our coral system probably 3 times a week.

Forestrain · May 3, 2016

Preis v Power& Energizer

Bunkinator · May 3, 2016

target feed all corals reef roids and phyto feast . and broadcast feed , mysis, cyclopods, spirulina and mega marine brine to the tank. everyone is fat, healthy and growing...

Mrx7899 · May 3, 2016

Reef roids and reef chilli

Ebone · May 3, 2016

Ben and Jerry's

Ebone · May 3, 2016

aqua vitro fuel and reef chilli.... and fish poop

Monkeytank · May 4, 2016

FrootStick said:
Hey All,

So I've gotten over some hurdles my tank put in my way. Everything is starting to look good again. Finally!
I'm looking at starting to feed my corals. Mainly LPS with a few SPS and some softies. So a mixed bag!
I was feeding Reef Roids, a few times a week and occasionally drop in some frozen mysis in with the Reef Roids.
So my question here is, what do you feed your corals? How often? And spot feeding or dumping.
As I have a lot of acans I was thinking of some type of pellet, but not sure what's the best quality and what I should do.
Some of that Nyos stuff looks interesting.

Thanks all

Fauna Marin LPS pellets are great. I've seen it bring back scolys and acans that looked like they were surely receding and were going to die. I spot feed and see major differences in growth. Plan to shoo away fish, hermits, or aggressive shrimp that try to steal the pellets before they are consumed. Getting rid of hermits helped my scolys have time to eat.