Feeding acans

[randy4083]

Can you just feed acans the lps pellets all the time or should you feed them other stuff to because I have reef chilli and coral frenzy and reef roids also and I don't know what to feed them all the time and I've been feeding the reef chilli and coral frenzy and the reef roids so what would be best to feed them and I have mysis also

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I like to feed a variety of food.

Kind of like how I like to eat.

 

[randy4083]

Are these types of food all fine for acans and do you really have to feed the acans when the lights are off or can you feed them anytime

 

[Waters]

I have always fed mine mysis. They can be fed at anytime.....sometimes you have to "pre-feed" the tank to get a feeding response from them.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I let all my coral grab food out of the water column with lights on or off.

 

[randy4083]

I've been buying live brine shrimp and feeding to the whole tank but not sure if the acans are getting them or not and with my work schedule it's hard to feed them when the lights are out because I work at a convenient store at night from 10 until 6 in the morning and then I come home and get dressed to go down fence work from 7 until around 2 in the afternoon and right now my light comes on at 12 until 8 at night so I have a screwed up schedule that's all

 

[randy4083]

I let all my coral grab food out of the water column with lights on or off.

So you just broadcast feed and don't spot feed the corals

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I just dump the food near the power heads and let it circulate around the tank. Right now I am mixing Oysterfeast and Rods frozen, but I also use Larrys frozen and nori sheets. Just try to mix things up. Also use amino acids sometimes.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I usually feed when the lights are on so I can watch them eat.

 

[randy4083]

That doesn't put nitrates and stuff into your tank doing that because right now I am dosing vibrant so I'm wondering if that would help in the way of feeding like that because when I was broadcast feeding my nightrates were really bad but now I'm dosing vibrant and I have gfo in a bag in my hob filter

 

[randy4083]

How do you mix them together when one is frozen and one is liquid

 

[Zero Nitrates]

That makes sense.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

How do you mix them together when one is frozen and one is liquid

Pour the oysterfeast into a cup then add the frozen food. Add some tank water and let it defrost the food for 15 minutes or so, stir then add to the tank.

 

[randy4083]

You don't have high nitrates from broadcast feeding food because I was doing that and I had high nitrates from doing that

 

[Zero Nitrates]

You don't have high nitrates from broadcast feeding food because I was doing that and I had high nitrates from doing that

That depends who you ask. Lol

I try to keep my nitrates around 10 to 15 ppm. Not too low or to high.

 

[randy4083]

Well I do a waterchange every week and my tank is 25 gallons and I change 5 gallons a week and I'm dosing vibrant so do you think that I would be ok doing it like that and plus I run gfo in a bag in my hob filter

 

[Zero Nitrates]

That sounds good to me. Keep an eye on it though. Every tank is different.

 

[Zero Nitrates]

These are hungry

 

[Waters]

That depends who you ask. Lol

I try to keep my nitrates around 10 to 15 ppm. Not too low or to high.

That's pretty funny considering your username

 

[Mr.Rocc]

This probably is not needed, but I feed mine a mixture of selacon, reef roids and reef chili, then the next feeding they will get mysis shrimp. Mine love it.