When is the best time to feed corals?

[GoJimmy]

I have started stocking a biocube I started back in January with mostly sps corals and a few lps. I only have 2 fish, and I'm running a JNS HOB skimmer and a phosban reactor with gfo, media rack and some macro algae on the second chamber. Water quality is very good and I have been doing weekly w/c. Nitrates measure 0 with red sea test kits and phosphates at 0.02.
I have begun a feeding regimen for my corals that include weekly dosing of acropower, marine snow, core frenzy and mysis shrimp that I target feed right to the corals. Does anyone have a similar feeding cycle? Would you recommend feeding the day before a water change to clean up any residual waste? Or after a water change to supply nutrients to the water for corals to feed on? I don't have any water quality issues, but trying to keep it that way.

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[jsker]

Yes there is a fine balance that you must keep. To clean corals will not grow, to dirty and everything crashes. Feed reguradless of water change and monitor your nitrates and phosphates. Your phosphate are fine were the are at, and you also want some nitrates in your tank like between 3 to 5 ppm if your are going to have a mixed reef,

 

[GoJimmy]

Thanks jsker. That's why I started feeding because my nitrates are to low. I've started slow and feeding less than the recommended amounts. Even with the spot feeding, it does put a lot of stuff in the water. I have been doing the feeding the day before a water change to maybe cleanup some of the left over bits. Maybe I'm just paranoid to feed my tank. Usually all the crabs and shrimp eat the left overs anyway.