feeding corals
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Topic: feeding corals
Posted By: RockStarFish
Subject: feeding corals
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:19pm
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In your opinion what is the best food to feed your corals?and how often do you feed them? Also please post what type of corals you have and what you feed each type. Thanks Mike |
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Posted By: adzmcss
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:30pm
| i feed my xeina and other little polyps kent marine's phytoplex.but is there somthing better? |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:35pm
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What to feed totally depends on what corals you have. Of course first and foremost is light. Almost all coral have Zoxanthelle that use light to live and they produce waste products that the coral use for food. (You probably already knew that though.) So to answer you question more directly... I have a nice colony of Sun Polyps that do not have Zoxanthelle and therefore don't need light. I feed them Frozen Brine Shrimp, Frozen Rotifers, and Golden Pearls from Brine Shrimp Direct. These corals need meaty foods. Most of my tank is some sort of softie or LPS. In part I have Mushrooms, Zoanthids, Leathers, Frogspawn & Hammer Corals. I feed my tank some sort of green water about twice a week. I usually use Tahitian Blend from Brine Shrimp direct, but occassionally I get a live culture to feed as well. Also about twice a week I feed Frozen Rotifers and/or very small Golden Pearls and/or Cyclopeze. I believe that SPS would probably do well with the same foods, but I'm certainly no expert in SPS. Another great coral food that I rarely use is Live Rotifers. These are probably even better than most of the foods I feed. |
Posted By: bugzme
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:35pm
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I vary my foods eack day,cyclopeez,tahitian blend,rotifiers, golden pearls,dt's, and I through in some brine and mysis shrimp for the fish. I also add vitamins twice a week. ------------- Jeff 125 tank 50 gallon sump T-5 lighting Rum drinker, Carbon User I KNOW ROCKS THAT ARE YOUNGER THEN ME!! I AM A Realist! I write what I think!! |
Posted By: RockStarFish
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:45pm
| where do you get the cyclopeez and the rotifiersend I have never heard of golden pearls what is this and where do I get some?The reason I started this post was to try some othere stuff and get some expert info |
Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 12:45pm
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My corals get: freeze dried copepods, and two sizes (300-500 micron, and 50-100 micron) of golden pearls from BSD, and cyclopeese, every other day, total each day of about 1/2 teaspoon. You've seen my tank so you know what is in it! For those of you who have not seen it, I have a cabbage (size of your fist), large frilly leather (Put both your hands together and spread your fingers with a stalk that is about 3" thick) a durasa clam, green slimer, green nepthia (2-8" specimens), green sinularia (about 8" tall), brown acro, and two branching acros, a large colony of ricordia from Suzy (Thanks Suzy!, about 3 hands across!), lots and lots of GSPs, encrusting xenia, pom pom xenia, lots of mushrooms, a large rock covered with zoos. ------------- Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West. (801) 282-2744 75 gallon reef 55 gallon reef 55 gallon FOWLR 20 gallon FOWLR |
Posted By: Adam Haycock
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 7:13pm
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Very general statment... hard corals will eat zooplankton (ie rotifers) soft corals will eat phytoplankton. Just a note... Nannochloropsis based phytoplankton (DTs, velvet green) has the highest levels of HUFAs. Unless you are raising fry, more expensive blends with T-isochrysis (tihitian blend) are not needed IMO. ------------- 
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Posted By: bugzme
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 7:37pm
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you can get cyclopeze in the freezer at any lfs. I buy alot of products at brine shrimp direct located at exit 352 ------------- Jeff 125 tank 50 gallon sump T-5 lighting Rum drinker, Carbon User I KNOW ROCKS THAT ARE YOUNGER THEN ME!! I AM A Realist! I write what I think!! |
Posted By: improdigal
Date Posted: September 03 2005 at 9:56pm
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Man you all feed your corals ALOT! I just feed my tank 2 cubes of whatever fish food daily (have a library of fish food in the freezer) and the corals get whatever floats by. Of course my Acros aren't growing much, but my softies, zoos, digitata, and montipora grow like mad. I've manually fed my corals about once/month when I was bored. I have one pack of cyclopeez and golden pearls that I've had for over a year. ------------- Patrick |