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Old 03-04-2006, 01:02 AM
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LIGHT, is what I feed my SPS. everyonce and a while I jump on the fad bandwagon and try some food, but I have neever seen it make a difference.

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Old 03-04-2006, 05:26 AM
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Light Ca and ALK... occationally cyclopeze, rotifers etc
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Old 03-04-2006, 07:43 AM
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If sps only need to feed on light, why do they ( acro's for example) extend their polyps when the lights are out? I just assumed they were feeding. Why do some of the other sps (mycedium (spelling?) for example) send out sweepers? Is it only to attack other corals? I thought they are trying to feed as well.
I have experimented with feeding and not feeding and it seems my coral's get brighter, look healthier and grow faster when I feed. Is it my imagination? Please tell me if I am wrong. If I am wrong I'll not bother feeding them and start saving some loot.
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Old 03-04-2006, 05:01 PM
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If sps only need to feed on light, why do they ( acro's for example) extend their polyps when the lights are out? I just assumed they were feeding. Why do some of the other sps (mycedium (spelling?) for example) send out sweepers? Is it only to attack other corals? I thought they are trying to feed as well.
I have experimented with feeding and not feeding and it seems my coral's get brighter, look healthier and grow faster when I feed. Is it my imagination? Please tell me if I am wrong. If I am wrong I'll not bother feeding them and start saving some loot.
Mine extend theres during the day and retract them at night so who knows.. maybe your not giving them enuf light

anyways they will also eat bacteria and such they can get from the water column so maybe thats why they are out.

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They can and will survive on light alone. (if it's bright enough)

However in the wild they actually recieve more energy from 'eating' than from light.
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I am surprised from the overall consensus. I was was like Greg (Snappy) and was feeding mine or so I thought. So money wasted by the sounds of it.
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I started feeding reef-roids and have noticed a huge difference from not feeding, my corals were healthy and bright before in two weeks since i started reef-roids the colors are brighter and the corals in general seem even healther .

I have used cyclopeze to feed my smaller fish, clown ect love it but never noticed any feeding reponse from corals like i do with roids.
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They can and will survive on light alone. (if it's bright enough)

However in the wild they actually recieve more energy from 'eating' than from light.
thats a pretty blanket statment.. I think something like depending on the depth and there location they may get more from eating than from light.

there are actualy several tests done in different areas and a few have showen that some SPS domanant areas actualy have very low nutreant levels in the water. So I would say thoes ones are getting more from the light.

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