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Old 02-09-2004, 04:52 PM
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Any thoughts on what to feed a hammer most everyone I talked to seems to say they've tried but the hammers just lets the food blow away with in a few minutes. I realize that they get pretty much everything form the nutrients in the water and from the light just want to keep it happy.
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No, they certainly don't get everything from the water. I feed mine once a week with mysis and it consumes it within minutes. They can live a long time without feeding (just light), but growth will be slim to none.
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my hammer eats mysis too. I found out by accident when some landed on the hammer and it ate it ;P

the frogspawn is my fave to feed tho...
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I agree with Brad, they grow a lot faster when fed once or twice a week. I would spray thawed mysis over it when feeding, and it seemed to catch enough.
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I have a difficult time getting my frogspawn to take food..
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Old 02-09-2004, 08:02 PM
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i would have to disagree...
i very rarely directly feed my corals...including LPS... and i have never had a problem with growth...
they just get whatever they can when i feed the tank...
then again, maybe i feed the tank too much.
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I don't feed my corals diectly. My hammer gets some occasional leftovers from fish feeding. It has nearly doubled in size in a year.
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