Feeding coral query

[Bent17]

Unusual question BUT: When target feeding corals with something like mysis.. If you feed say an acan or one head of a torch, and from all its polyps only one attaches a piece of mysis, would that be just feeding that specific polyp or would it be feeding the entire coral?

 

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An acan is probably more each polyp would take food as there is separation between heads, but I’m not 100% sure they don’t share nutrients. They should only need target fed if you have really low nutrients or feed really sparingly. As for a torch, each head is a polyp for if an arm (tentacle) gathers mysis it is reading the whole head.

 

[Hats_]

corals can share nutrients using connective tissue in a colony, so you feed the entire colony, feeding individual polyps will be more effective in the end but it does feed them

 

[Bent17]

Thanks as I was always curious about that!