Feed corals or not?

[Jason sun]

Hi reefers,

I’ve been keeping my eyes on my reef’s nutrients for couple of months. Everything goes to a very simple question: Do I need to feed corals if I have stable phosphate (0.04-0.05) and nitrate (15-20 ppm)?
In other words, does 0.05 phosphate + 15 ppm nitrate means the water nutrients are enough to support SPS growing without throwing in any other organic stuffs like reef roids?
I only feed fish right now so nutrients can be under control.
Any idea helps. Thanks.

Parameters:
Alk 8.2-8.4
Cal 420
Mg 1350
Phosphate: 0.05
Nitrate 15-20ppm
Par:500-600

 

[vetteguy53081]

Feeding the fish generally provides food source for coral. If you want an assurance, use product such as reef roids OR coral frenzy and mix with RO or Tank water and cut flow for a few minutes and feed the food by turkey baster or suspended method and resume pump operation after a few minutes

 

[Jason sun]

Feeding the fish generally provides food source for coral. If you want an assurance, use product such as reef roids OR coral frenzy and mix with RO or Tank water and cut flow for a few minutes and feed the food by turkey baster or suspended method and resume pump operation after a few minutes

Thanks! Every time I spot feeding reef roids, phosphate goes out of control for couple of days..... Usually phosphate increases from 0.05 to 0.25+ the day after feeding and slowly drop about 0.04 each day. A real headache....

 

[piranhaman00]

I spot feed my lps corals mysis shrimp. They love it and are growing super fast!

 

[Brofessor]

I just started using Reef Roids 2 weeks ago and my micromussa went from death's door to sprouting new heads practically the next day.

My nitrates are creeping up, too, went from 0 to 15 in the past few weeks, but I've read threads from people here who are like, "Yeah, my nitrates have been over 80 for years and everything is fine." I don't know if they're full of it or not.