Feeding corals fish food???

[Jguido1987]

I was curious if anyone has ever feed their corals a hard marine fish pellet? I will usually feed my lps corals either some brine or mysis shrimp along w some of the other basic marine snow. I also really like the product by aquavitro FUEL. My main question is for my welso brain coral and my sun coral. Has anyone ever given either of these corals fish pellets? Yes I'm sure this question will anger someone and they will go off on a list of how only the best should be fed, sorry in advanced. Just curious and before I try on my own I would rather learn from others experience. My main concern would be too hard to digest? Because of how hard the pellets are would they harm the flesh? And would the pellets give any nutritional value?

 

[Jguido1987]

The fish pellets are OMEGA ONE marine pellets w/ garlic

 

[bigjoker208]

Pellets, in general, do have alot of nutritional value. My concern might be the garlic that is included in your Omega One, because that is mainly for the fish. Tried to look up if garic was bad for corals, and what i read said it doesn't really affect them. If you do try it, i would crush up the pellets and mix with a little of your tank water. Then use a turkey baster to spray it at your coral. Good luck, im curious of the results

 

[Sagecritter4life]

My Duncan eats the fauna marine lps medium pellets if looking at just the ease of pellets but Yuma doesn't care for them lol

 

[DRoth335]

I feed pellets to most of our lps: elegance, several fungia,tongue, acan...

 

[Jguido1987]

Thanks. I'm gonna try it. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something that could harm them.

 

[LbulletM]

I had a rose coral that nommed Omega One pellets like it was its job.

 

[floridabromo]

I feed my favor and platygyra pellets.. its just a lot easier than having to thaw out frozen shrimps, it also seems easier for them to get and eat and I just assumed that it was just as healthy.. glad i'm not the only one that does it

 

[Hambonej]

I have the sera granula pellets. I was planning on crushing; not so fine but small enough for the candys/frogs mouth. Then target feed. Any thoughts?

 

[wsoldier]

Stupid question, but how do you guys actually administer the pellets? I've found it hard with a turkey baster since they just get stuck in the baster itself and you end up blasting more water than actual food. Thanks.

 

[RedPhotog]

I was curious if anyone has ever feed their corals a hard marine fish pellet? I will usually feed my lps corals either some brine or mysis shrimp along w some of the other basic marine snow. I also really like the product by aquavitro FUEL. My main question is for my welso brain coral and my sun coral. Has anyone ever given either of these corals fish pellets? Yes I'm sure this question will anger someone and they will go off on a list of how only the best should be fed, sorry in advanced. Just curious and before I try on my own I would rather learn from others experience. My main concern would be too hard to digest? Because of how hard the pellets are would they harm the flesh? And would the pellets give any nutritional value?

My Blasto and Elegance eagerly close up on the hikari s pellets. I dont purposely target feed with these, but some do land on them from feeding the fish. They digest them fine, havnt had any problems.

 

[Saltyanimals]

Hi @RedPhotog - how long have you been feeding your elegance the pellets? I've been struggling with an aussie elegance. Large one and just has never been happy since it's been in my tank. Not receding, just not fully expanded. Countless people have mentioned to feed, but I'm unsuccessful at feeding live / fresh food as other critters turn into thieves. yes I could do a coke bottle trick, but discretely dropping pellets directly seems easier. Looking to understand if pellets is a reasonable long term solution. I'm feeding PE Mysis pellets and NLS mix first before running out and buying LPS pellets.