Coral Feeding

[billy1205]

Can anyone share what do you feed for SPS and LPS? Do you use same food for all the coral or seperate food?

 

[BlueCursor]

Completely different food, usually (there is always a "usually").

Leptos, favites, are LPS but you feed them like SPS. Button corals, duncans, brains, hammers, are LPS that you feed big food..

For SPS, some sort of phyto and possibly roids.

For LPS like hammers etc., anything from mysis shrimp to krill. LPS pellets work great too.

 

[Bdog4u2]

Be careful not to overfeed coral. I believe a lot of the water quality issues are related to overfeeding coral. I feed mine 2-3 times a month plus weekly amino

 

[mtraylor]

Nothing. Just feed your fish. They will get some scraps here and there.

 

[billy1205]

I'm wondering could i use chopped shrimp for most of the lps and reef roids for sps?

 

[floridabromo]

I dose Red Sea Reef Energy A&B daily, reef chili every other day(Target feed all my SPS), chopped up mysis shrimp(LPS, including my frogspawn), then I feed reef roids and polyp booster twice a week.. I have a lot of growth and my nitrates stay between 0 and 2

 

[billy1205]

I dose Red Sea Reef Energy A&B daily, reef chili every other day(Target feed all my SPS), chopped up mysis shrimp(LPS, including my frogspawn), then I feed reef roids and polyp booster twice a week.. I have a lot of growth and my nitrates stay between 0 and 2

Nice! Just a quick question, can you see polpy extension for your sps after you dose polyp booster?

 

[billy1205]

Anyone here prepare own frozen food, If you do, do you mind to share the ingredients? I'm thinking preparing own forozen food will cost cheaper in longrun? What's your thought?

 

[andrew james]

When I make my fish food frozen cubes I add some RedSea reef energy A&B, oyster feast and reef frenzy into the mix. So every time my fish eat my corals get some too. I able to keep my nutrient levels very stable at NO3 =4ppm & PO4 = .04. when I used to my corals more less often my nutrient would fluctuate NO3 would go as high as 10 ppm and as low as 0. I figured that could be good for the animals so I experimented and this was my solution.

I also added a Cheato reactor to help with export and was able to ditch the NOPOX.

My Fish Food Recipe
16 oz flat pack Hikari Myis shrimp
2 cans Can O' Cyclops
20 drop Aqua Forest Garlic Oil
30 drops Aqua Forest Fish Vitamin
6oz Reef nutrition Live Oyster Feast
2 tbl spoon Reef Frenzy
50ml Red Sea Reef Energy A
50ml Red Sea Reef Energy B
1/2 Small tin of peas strained and smashed

This lasts me one month.

 

[billy1205]

When I make my fish food frozen cubes I add some RedSea reef energy A&B, oyster feast and reef frenzy into the mix. So every time my fish eat my corals get some too. I able to keep my nutrient levels very stable at NO3 =4ppm & PO4 = .04. when I used to my corals more less often my nutrient would fluctuate NO3 would go as high as 10 ppm and as low as 0. I figured that could be good for the animals so I experimented and this was my solution.

I also added a Cheato reactor to help with export and was able to ditch the NOPOX.

My Fish Food Recipe
16 oz flat pack Hikari Myis shrimp
2 cans Can O' Cyclops
20 drop Aqua Forest Garlic Oil
30 drops Aqua Forest Fish Vitamin
6oz Reef nutrition Live Oyster Feast
2 tbl spoon Reef Frenzy
50ml Red Sea Reef Energy A
50ml Red Sea Reef Energy B
1/2 Small tin of peas strained and smashed

This lasts me one month.

Awesome! That's a good idea. Thanks for your sharing. May i know How many times do you feed your homemade frozen food a day? Besides feeding the frozen food, do you do any target feeding or broadcasting feeding for coral?

 

[andrew james]

90 gallon display with 10 fish average size about 3-4 inches. I feed 4 cubes at lights on and 4 at lights off. I do not target feed anything except my anemones which eat a piece of frozen shrimp once a week. Since I've started doing this I've gotten really good growth and color. It's just one way of doing things but it's been working really well for my tank.

 

[ReeferDave01]

90 gallon display with 10 fish average size about 3-4 inches. I feed 4 cubes at lights on and 4 at lights off. I do not target feed anything except my anemones which eat a piece of frozen shrimp once a week. Since I've started doing this I've gotten really good growth and color. It's just one way of doing things but it's been working really well for my tank.

Why do you feed lights off? For inverts?

 

[andrew james]

sorry. lights on and off I was referring to my MH lights which only run for 6 hours. So the tank is still lit withand everyone is still awake. I should have said 10am and 4pm

 

[ReeferDave01]

sorry. lights on and off I was referring to my MH lights which only run for 6 hours. So the tank is still lit withand everyone is still awake. I should have said 10am and 4pm

Gotcha. Cause 2-3x a week I throw some sinking pellets into the tank with lights off for my crabs to keep them fat and happy

 

[floridabromo]

Nice! Just a quick question, can you see polpy extension for your sps after you dose polyp booster?

I dont notice so much for my SPS but my LPS look so crazy when I dose it! Legit my acans open so much I could put pellets straight into them.. let me see if I can find a picture

 

[floridabromo]

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

I make a mix of mysis,gut loaded brine,&reef rods...once a week..works pretty well.. definitely getting growth

 

[Bperau]

I notice my corals do better when I'm out town working vs me being home and feeding them a few times a week. Iv gotten to the point that I don't think Iv target fed my Coral in 3 months

 

[Salty1962]

I use SPS/LPS specific foods 2-3X a week.

 

[Ty Hamatake]

I broadcast feed reef chili twice a week during lights on. I did a little experiment feeding it daily about two hours before lights came on (so darkness for around 10 hours) for one week. I saw awesome PE, but ended up with a bit of a cyano outbreak. Someone also posted an article describing the possible negative side effects of feeding during lights out. I'll dig for it if anyone is interested.