Continuous plankton feeding?
I was reminded on Sunday while in a LFS to regularly feed my corals every 1-2 days. This made me feel guilty as I have been feeding them rarely and they haven't been thriving.
This got me thinking. A few of my corals appear to have open polyps and feeding at night, but most of them are contracted at night. Would it be beneficial to continuously feed them 24/7? Would this more closely approximate real conditions on the reef? If so, is anyone doing this?
I was thinking of mixing a weeks worth of phytomax, chromamax, zoomax, reef-roids, coral frenzy etc. into a few litres of SW and dripping them directly into the tank. I am thinking of using a peristaltic pump to accurately control the rate and use a magnetic stirrer or airstone to keep the plankton in suspension. Does this sound crazy?
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300 gal starphire custom built in pentagon reef (+90 gal sump on Blue Line 100 HD return pump, 210lb LR, Euro-Reef RC250 skimmer, 2x400W MH, 2x28W compacts, 2xTurbelle classic 4002 pumps & Turbelle Stream 6100 on 7095 Multicontroller, running ZEOvit)
Livestock
Fish: damsels; sailfin, yellow, regal & naso tangs; ocellaris & tomato clowns; lyretail anthias; foxface lo; flame angelfish
corals: a few
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