Question About Food And Feeding.......

[GoTakeANap]

I have a 75 gallon tank with a frogspawn, mushrooms, hairy mushrooms, ricordias, green star polys and zoos in it. Im wanting to add a montipora, plate coral, acans, chalice and a scolymia. Im currently feeding marine snow and phyco pure reef blend. I swap days when I feed these foods. 1 today and the other tomorrow. Is this the right thing to feed?

Was wondering if there is a type of food out there that I could feed all of these corals with? Dont wanna buy 3-4 different foods for these corals unless I have to. Should I spot feed or just pour the correct amount of food in the tank thats recomended? I have never spot fed before so all of this is new to me.

 

[GoTakeANap]

anyone?

 

[SeahorseKeeper]

I don't really target feed my corals. I just turn my pumps of when I feed the fish (frozen only). The corals get little bits. I have heard great results from people that use Coral Frenzy and the Fauna Marin foods.

 

[YVR]

I am a big advocate of feeding my corals. I feed them 1-2 times per week.. I target feed my LPS corals thawed and rinsed frozen mysis in the evenings when their feeding tentacles are out. I feed the whole tank 1-2 times per week in the evening alternating with frozen oyster eggs, frozen Cyclops, Tropic Marin Pro-Coral Phyton and TM Pro-Coral. I’ve noticed much better sps polyp extension in my corals after using the TM Pro Coral foods.

 

[Pkunk35]

I definitely feed my corals a lot, but only specific ones that will eat and can be target fed.

The ricordea, zoas and shrooms usually don't need to be target fed (but often can be), they usually can do with fish feeding leftovers i believe.

Most all LPS extend feeders that can be target fed as YVR mentioned.

SPS, who knows but it seems IME that the more i target feed my LPS, the happier the SPS look the couple of days after.

Just be sure that you aren't providing too much uneaten waste when you feed your corals...broadcast feeding is great but a little wasteful. Try targeting with a pipette or baster or similar at nighttime when corals are feeding and also turn off skimmer for 30 or more mins.

I feed Fauna LPS pellet and while I think a varied diet is 100% best, if i had to pick one food to feed coral it would be this or mysis. I have not tried Rod's food yet tho and that will be my next food purchase as it is supposed to be great stuff.

 

[TrueReef]

I use a small powdered food (Cyclop-eeze or Reef Pearls) for my softies and I like Reef Caviar (H2Ocean) for my stoneys.

 

[NanaReefer]

I too have begun feeding frozen only. Turning my mp10 to feed mode, I then add Nutramar Ova ( Prawn Eggs ) and Rods Complete. Very little if anything goes to waste. Very high in Omega3 and HUFA.

 

[j.p. harrington]

ive actually went the total exact opposite ive switched to all live foods and seen nothing but success so far ive been culturing live phyto 4 varieties live brine adults and babies 3 types of pods and rotifers

i use to feed extremely heavy on frozen foods around 4 cubes A DAY yes 4 cubes a day of various mixes i broadcast feed my tank and had good results but at the same time i have the filtration and biological filtration built up over time to handle that much food i dont recommend anyone try that much food without slowly ramping it up over several month span

 

[j.p. harrington]

also wanted to add that if live food doesnt get eaten then it will not foul the water as frozen or freezedried foods do. it will just simply live until eaten

 

[jedimasterben]

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[GoTakeANap]

Thanks everyone for the replys. A lot of helpful info was posted.

 

[jedimasterben]

This is what all went into a single feeding either daily or every other day when I still had fish in the tank....

Frozen mysis/squid/cyclop-eeze not pictured.

 

[GoTakeANap]

Wow that's a lot of foods u got there. Nice tank btw. Just curious but why don't you have fish anymore?

 

[jedimasterben]

Ich most likely. All fish were treated with Cupramine before entering, should not have been present in the system. I've got maybe half of what I started with.

 

[GoTakeANap]

Wow I'm sry to hear that. Did u spot feed any of your corals?

 

[jedimasterben]

3-4 times a week. Now that I have a large black sun (Tubastrea micrantha) I feed it at least 3 times a week, and in addition to it getting it during the big broadcast feed. I would turn off the return pump and leave it mixing in the main tank for a few hours, then turn it back on, but now that I have no mechanical filtration and no skimmer, I'll probably leave everything on.

 

[GratefulReef]

I target feed the corals that will accept it, and I also make my own coral/fish food its an all in one for me. Ive made 3 batches so far, once with shrimp, once with squid and this last time with a mixture shrimp,mussels,squid,octopus and clam found a bag of it frozen at the supermarket. I put nori paper(sushi), fresh garlic and the protien(shrimp,etc) into a blender and have a cup of tank water on standby, slowly add the water while blending until you get a greek yogurt consistency thick but creamy you want as little chunk as possible. Then I pour all of that into ice cube trays and freeze, this keeps it protioned for easy feeding, when its feeding time just pop a cube into a cup of tank water and let it thaw and I have not spent more than 10dollars on it and it makes 1.5 full ice cube trays worth. You can also add other things if you want, but this last batch my corals have really responded well to. My brain today the first time feeding fattened right up and has been looking amazing since I think the mixture of diff proteins is what did it. Its alot cheaper, and you will know exactly whats going into your food. Usually I target feed with a syringe(minus the needle) and slowly squirt it over the corals im targeting, then pour a little bit directly in the tank for the fish/cuc to feast on. hopefully this helps you out, corals can benefit from target feedings greatly but make sure you dont over feed and raise your params out of whack.