Continuous plankton feeding?

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by surgeonfish

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?

Sounds like the recipe for a big vat of microbial rot to me

You'd have to be going through the batches in pretty short order. Having that stuff sit around at room temperature for any length of time will only yield bacterial snot; lots of it.