Fish stealing food from coral

[Jholley565]

I have been feeding every coral that will take it in my tank mysis shrimp (I also feed reef roids and reef snow) my issue is my yellow tank and diamond goby relentlessly pick the food out of my coral. I’ve tried feeding them more within reason and it doesn’t help. They are far from skinny. I have made a few DIY coral feeding net/basket things but I was wondering if anyone else had another solution. The nets work great for the crabs and I can pick those off and put them in a pile with a couple pieces of shrimp and occupy them.

 

[KrisReef]

Feed coral after light out.

 

[Djasak]

What I do for corals that I'm particularly concerned about is I cut the neck part of a water bottle or 20oz. Soda bottle and place that over the coral, then feed. This prevents the fish from being able to reach the coral while it feeds.

 

[Jholley565]

Feed coral after light out.

I feel dumb now how did I not think of this?!

 

[Jholley565]

What I do for corals that I'm particularly concerned about is I cut the neck part of a water bottle or 20oz. Soda bottle and place that over the coral, then feed. This prevents the fish from being able to reach the coral while it feeds.

That would have been much faster than my project. Good idea! How do you get it to sink?

 

[homer1475]

Broadcast feed the tank, everything gets fed that way. I also spot feed corals once a week after lights are out and the fish are sleeping.

 

[KrisReef]

I feel dumb now how did I not think of this?!

People come to my house and ask me to turn the lights on so they can see the tank. No one comes over and says; "Turn off the lights, I don't want to look at the fish, coral, or whatever." I've done a bit of night diving and snorkeling in the ocean and the critters that come out at night and swarm in the water provide a lot of nutrition and the corals love it.

When I go back and read my 1st post I could feel a bit slow and I know I was tired. (I wrote light out instead of lights out.) Your post got me thinking about how my reef animals may suffer lack of sleep if I move the photoperiod around since I am home all day now. Thanks for the question. It is a good one!

 

[Jholley565]

People come to my house and ask me to turn the lights on so they can see the tank. No one comes over and says; "Turn off the lights, I don't want to look at the fish, coral, or whatever." I've done a bit of night diving and snorkeling in the ocean and the critters that come out at night and swarm in the water provide a lot of nutrition and the corals love it.

When I go back and read my 1st post I could feel a bit slow and I know I was tired. (I wrote light out instead of lights out.) Your post got me thinking about how my reef animals may suffer lack of sleep if I move the photoperiod around since I am home all day now. Thanks for the question. It is a good one!

I’m glad im not the only one that moved their lighting schedule lol I bumped mine back an hour. I’m definitely going to start feeding my corals after the lights go off.

 

[Djasak]

That would have been much faster than my project. Good idea! How do you get it to sink?

I've only used it on corals that are on the sandbed. I just give it a little push into the sand and it holds. For corals on the rock work you'd have to fashion something up. I would just go grab some fishing sinkers and tie those to the bottom of the bottle with fishing line.

 

[Tastee]

I've only used it on corals that are on the sandbed. I just give it a little push into the sand and it holds. For corals on the rock work you'd have to fashion something up. I would just go grab some fishing sinkers and tie those to the bottom of the bottle with fishing line.

Or even just tie some sinkers around the neck