Target feeding Zoanthids?? Any advice?

[Fishinfool]

I bought a pipette from my LFS to clean some of the stuff off my rocks and was considering using it to also target feed my Zoas and star polyps. Does any
one have any advice?
Thanks
Jason

 

[BlazinNano]

A lot of zoas will not actually eat. The only ones I can feed are my Grandis, PD, and buttons the rest just sit there and the food floats away.

 

[subielover]

Agreed, don't waste your time and don't dirty up your water for no good reason.

 

[Fishinfool]

I was going to try t thick concentrate of cyplop-eez and marine cuisine which has brine, mysis, krill and vitamins. I think I may have a problem getting thr krill in the pipette though

 

[Wy Renegade]

I was going to try t thick concentrate of cyplop-eez and marine cuisine which has brine, mysis, krill and vitamins. I think I may have a problem getting thr krill in the pipette though

You will, you'll also most likely have issues with the mysis as well.

 

[Fishinfool]

Well I just tried it out and I was pleasently suprised! I have seven different colonies of Zoa and first try with the pipette and only two wouldn't eat. The other four went crazy!! Some of the smaller polyps on the Darth Maul and the Chromis were eating pieces of krill and mysis that were bigger than they were!! Even my Xenia and green star polyps ate the larger pieces. As well as my Frogspawn, all nine heads closed full of food. Then after everything setteled down and started to open back up, I turned the pump back on and they all fed again. I am very pleased!!

 

[firsttime]

I personaly think you dont have to feed the zoas. If you feed the fishes that should be good enough. The zoas extract nutrients from water to grow. Excess feeding can lead to other issues.

 

[BayCorals]

That will be great if they can eat like that. They must grow like crazy. Just be caution about your phosphate and nitrate. When they eat alot, they dispose alot.

 

[subdrive]

I have a zoa and paly frag tank and been feeding them for several month every other day before I gave up. Most of palythoas will take almost all the things you feed them. Target feeding individual polyps took too much time and energy. The water quality got bad, then I had to constantly battle with green hair algia.
I mean, they will take the feeding, and grow faster, but I think I've lost more highend zoa and paly in process of scrubbing the algia's off them.
There was more con then pros in target feeding, so i stopped.