Poll: How do you feed your corals?

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How Do You Feed Your Corals?

  • Spot/target feeding

    Votes: 287 40.7%
  • Broadcast feeding

    Votes: 361 51.1%
  • I don't - I rely on photosynthesis and what's in the water column

    Votes: 182 25.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 13 1.8%

  • Total voters
    706
Spot feed twice a week for all my LPS/anemones using a mixture of CA Mysis and @Reef Nutrition TDO Pellet that has been soaked in Oyster Feast.

I also broadcast Reef Nutrition ROE ever morning, Red Sea's Reef Energy nightly, and my AFS feeds TDO twice a day while I'm gone. I also use Phyto-Feast a few times a week for my filter feeders and pods.
 
I typically broadcast feed the tank a rods/roids/ova slurry once a week at night; though, truth be told, it's as much about pulling my zebra eel out of the rocks to eat as actually feeding the corals LOL.
 
I have a 3 gallon reef jar. It has coral that are target fed and also coral that are fed by broadcasting. That is why I checked the first 2 choices.

I checked the 3rd choice, which is that I do not feed my coral because I also have a seahorse tank that has coral, and macro algae. I do not feed those at all because of seahorse's vulnerability to bacterial infections.
 
Spot feed twice a week for all my LPS/anemones using a mixture of CA Mysis and @Reef Nutrition TDO Pellet that has been soaked in Oyster Feast.

I also broadcast Reef Nutrition ROE ever morning, Red Sea's Reef Energy nightly, and my AFS feeds TDO twice a day while I'm gone. I also use Phyto-Feast a few times a week for my filter feeders and pods.
Your reef sounds very loved.
 
So far the poll says more Folks broadcast feed for their corals. I assumed it was more targeting. How about day or night? I do this after lights out with the return off. I pour some juice left after thawing my frozen fish food with some fish roe or oyster feast ? maybe some mashed up mysis . I leave the return off for an hour or so.
 
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Crinoid count as corals now ;), I broadcast feed Nutramar Ova and the Fauna Marin Non-Photo Line, I find that with Filter Feeding Gorgonians when you try to spot feed they only close up because of the water being blown on them, Not because of the food.
 
SPS, zoas or anything with small mouth gets phytoplankton via turkey bastor. Anything with tentacles or a big mouth gets pellets.

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Broadcast 3x week and spot feed 1-2x a week my lps dominant tank. Probably for my own enjoyment. Mix of reef roids, dried plankton dust, and Microvore for spot. Zooplankton and Microvore for broadcast.
 
I used to spot feed every mouth 2-3x per week, then I got more corals...and then they started to grow and split, thus having more mouths to feed...

I do the occasional spot feed on SPS and LPS, but vary rarely, everything else is water column from broadcast feeding my fish and inverts or photosynthesis and I occasionally add in reef roids.

I havent in quite a while, but I do feed my quad color BTA with headless silverside fish, I drop the heads in the tank for the inverts.

Other than that I just sit back and let it do its thing.
 
I like to target feed when the lights are out and the corals are all reaching for food. So fun to watch them grab the Reef Chili and close up to digest it!
 
I broadcast feed fresh blender mush four to five times a day but I also spot feed my scoly
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IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 32 45.7%
  • Not yet, but I have one that I want to buy in mind!

    Votes: 9 12.9%
  • No.

    Votes: 26 37.1%
  • Other (please explain).

    Votes: 3 4.3%
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