Feeding
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Topic: Feeding
Posted By: MrViper
Subject: Feeding
Date Posted: September 25 2012 at 2:57pm
What would you feed zoas and palys? or do u need to feedthem at all?
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Vipers look cool at a distant, but be careful of the bite..its a killer!
Still to many cool stuff not enough money
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Posted By: willrileyiv
Date Posted: September 25 2012 at 3:15pm
I squirt mine with a mix of mysis and that fuel stuff and I get new heads all the time. Everyone does it different, though
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11 year old tomato clown named cherry
2 gal, 30 gal, 32 gal, 65 gal and 210 gal
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Posted By: rize2
Date Posted: September 25 2012 at 5:30pm
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I only feed my space monster palys because they're the only ones that easily accept it. And they are growing really fast
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Posted By: napalm77
Date Posted: September 28 2012 at 6:25am
There are a variety of coral food. I use reef dna, oyster feed, phyto plankton. Fuel is also a simlar food at a good price. some zoas need very small food to eat. (Below 50 microns or so I believ). So it all depends on the demands of your coral.
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Posted By: BillyC
Date Posted: September 28 2012 at 6:32am
Like it was mentioned above, you need to figure out which softies will actually accept food. If you drop small mysis or brine in them and they grab it, close up, and open a few mins later with the food gone, then it eats. Most small polyps don't accept food IME.
It's important to mention that you don't HAVE to feed zoanthids or palys. They will continue to grow just fine without food. That being said, I personally enjoy giving my palys a snack from time to time when I have time to spot feed some of my corals.
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Posted By: ReefdUp
Date Posted: September 28 2012 at 7:47am
Yes, not all zoanthids will accept food, and when they do accept it, it will depend on food size. Also, many people lump zoanthids, palythoas, protopalythoas, etc. all under zoanthids. Protopalythoas will eat insane amounts of food...of just about any size and variety.
As far as feeding, I do a homemade blender mix of raw seafoods, algae, garlic, amino acids, and a bit of sugar.
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