Coral feeding

[chris88]

your right a well established tank and stable parameters are a must for sps. Corals are one of thefew animals in the world that dedicate the majority of thier body tissue to feeding. Hence the polpy which is a giant mouth. They need to be feed, but most eat what is dissolved in the water column or to small for us to see like most plankton and bacteria.

[Zoaelite]

If you want some good reading on how corals feed:
http://www.coralscience.org/main/art...ow-corals-feed

Lots of interesting stuff there.