Frag tank feeding

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So I have set up a Coral/Invert QT. I don't have any inverts in it but I do have a few SPS and Zoa frags.
Any thoughts on how to feed what is essentially a frag tank right now?
 
As you know Brew I'm pretty much in the same situation as you currently with my fallow display tank, and I agree, a little coral food like reef chili or coral frenzy once, maybe twice a week. Since it's been a couple months since I've had fish to feed, I noticed my corals weren't quite as happy looking, so for the past 3 weeks I've been using a little Coral Frenzy 2 times per week and everything has responded well.

I would recommend mixing up a concentrate in a cup and using a turkey baster or something similar to target feed vs broadcast feeding..that just pollutes the tank in my experience.
 
I wouldnt feed it unless you need to honestly. Assuming you have a good light source and everything else is good, mimic the parameters that you have in your DT. I've never seen any real change with using powdered coral foods - particularily with zoas. If you have acans or hammers or something I can see using some chopped mysis or brine, but SPS and zoas are pretty independant. That said, I use Zeo additives for my tank, and I really like their SpongePower additive for filter feeders and SPS. Otherwise, I dont feed my tank at all - and its been fallow for about 6 weeks.
 
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You are wasting your time with the zoas but if you want to feed your sps i would try some reef chili/reef roids a couple times per week, whole mysis is way too big for sps. If its truly just a qt they won't be in there long enough to really see any difference either way and is definitely not necessary as long as you dont have ultra low nutrients.
 

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