Feeding coral, and keeping fish/inverts out

[cubbyman60]

Question of the day:
How do you feed your coral without your fish/inverts stealing to food? Love to see or hear any ideas.

Thanks.

 

[40B Knasty]

Week 39 BRStv covers a few good ideas if you have meaty eater or particle feeders and how to keep the other tank inhabitants from stealing it away frow them. I use Reefroids. After seeing that video. I guess I got lucky with my food of choice for the corals because a lot can actually have negative impact. Reefchili seems to be 2nd best.

 

[Best Fish-Jake]

I feed mysis shrimp to all my LPS and I too feel your pain. I generally feed my coral with a long pair of tweezers (after I broadcast feed my fish).

My acans and euphyllia can fend off any onlookers but I need to watch my blasto, chalice, scoly, and lobo a bit more closely. I usually will keep my tweezers in the tank and nudge away my cleaner shrimp and small hermits always seem to encroach on my helpless blastos [emoji23] the whole process usually takes >5 mins and, IMO, its actually pretty fun... if the shrimp gets really feisty I usually hand him a fat price of krill and that shuts him up long enough for my corals to eat.

My hermits tend to be the real threat, as I'm always getting distracted by something else in my tank and all of a sudden there's shells stealing mysis from all the coral sitting on my sand bed[emoji23]

 

[cubbyman60]

The hermits always steal the food.

 

[AdamNC]

If room allows you can use the green strawberry baskets like you get at the supermarket.

 

[bluerexy]

I've seen people take an empty plastic bottle, cut the bottom of it off and place it over the coral. Then you can stick a turkey baster down then opening and let the coral eat while the fish and inverts can't get in.