coral food

[nani223]

what to feed corals? And how will it affect my water?

 

[CrimsonTide]

what to feed corals? And how will it affect my water?

The more you feed the more your nitrates go up and the more sooner you'll need water changes. There's lots of things to feed them. Depends on what you have. I do reef roids and meaty pieces of shrimp krill and things for larger meat corals. Also phytoplankton.

 

[MoshJosh]

Depends on the type of corals. Generally speaking you will be adding nutrients, nitrate and phosphate, when feeding corals (cause you are adding more food into the system).

Target feeding a diet catered to your specific corals is probably the idea. . . but going to be time consuming.

Reef Roids and Reef Chili are two general particulate foods that are popular, can be target and or broadcast fed.

There are also a number of "liquid foods.

I personally like to broadcast liquid foods, including amino acids, with my skimmer cup removed. Then broadcast a variety of frozen foods with the return pumps/filtration off.

 

[vetteguy53081]

The more you feed the more your nitrates go up and the more sooner you'll need water changes. There's lots of things to feed them. Depends on what you have. I do reef roids and meaty pieces of shrimp krill and things for larger meat corals. Also phytoplankton.

Corals with mouths such as mushroom, acan. euphyllia- Mysis shrimp. With polyps, phyto and plankton foods and others liquid foods and aminos

 

[lil sumpin]

Depends on the coral, my mushrooms have a feeding response when I feed my fish sometimes. I have a green hairy mushroom that closes up around whatever mysis bits, flake or pellets that get caught in it. There are plenty of LPS corals that respond to feeding. Some corals prefer 'meatier' foods while others can subsist just off light. I've also seen a good response from my corals after I started using this bacteria driven approach

 

[CrimsonTide]

Corals with mouths such as mushroom, acan. euphyllia- Mysis shrimp. With polyps, phyto and plankton foods and others liquid foods and aminos

My euphyllia hate eating. I still give them food incase they want it. Everything else eats reef roids or mysis. Rockflowers will eat anything I put in their mouth. One almost ate a peppermint shrimp tonight! He got away. Lucky for him. Not so lucky for the nem. Haha.

 

[VintageReefer]

Pure liquid amino acids typically wont affect phosphate. Many corals can benefit from this but it’s more like a vitamin than food

Powder food - reef roid is a eaten by many many corals but it’s a nitrate and phosphate producer. A good alternate is benereef by benepets

Medium and large polyp Corals with an actual mouth and feeding response - plate, scolymia, acan etc can eat flake, powder based floods, or frozen foods like mysis

 

[Spare time]

Pure liquid amino acids typically wont affect phosphate. Many corals can benefit from this but it’s more like a vitamin than food

Powder food - reef roid is a eaten by many many corals but it’s a nitrate and phosphate producer. A good alternate is benereef by benepets

Medium and large polyp Corals with an actual mouth and feeding response - plate, scolymia, acan etc can eat flake, powder based floods, or frozen foods like mysis

What makes you say amino acids are more like a vitamin than a food? They are the most basic form of "food" there can be.

 

[VintageReefer]

What makes you say amino acids are more like a vitamin than a food? They are the most basic form of "food" there can be.

I could have been more clear. And accurate. Was just broadly generalizing

Yes they are a food, and they come from the proteins of food and many corals consume them directly. But they are not a meaty / solid food that other corals and fish prefer

When I say it’s like a vitamin, I meant it can be used more like an supplement or additive. I should have said you can soak flake, pellet, or meaty foods in amino acids to get them absorbed like a vitamin, and to get certain corals to consume them or fish to eat them