sun coral and pellet food

[justinl]

I realize tubastrea needs feeding almost every day to do well, but what do you guys feed them? Can they survive and do well with a staple of NLS pellet and occasional feedings of chopped silverside or mysis? Dunno if it matters, but they will go in a small divided section of the tank that gets zero fish traffic so they won't be subject to getting any food stolen out of their mouths (which is a real annoyance when I feed my other LPS).

[martym]

Personally I wouldn't use pellets, I would think it is too hard for them to digest. Not sure it corals drink water to rehydrate them.
Silver sides, mysis, chopped shrimp..... any of those are good.

JMO

[mseepman]

I agree that I wouldn't target pellets at them, but I can say that when I put pellets in the tank, if one falls to the Sun Coral, it gobbles it up like you wouldn't believe.

[brizzo]

Mysis, mysis, and more mysis! I spot feed mine every other day. Feed it, wait about 15 minutes, and it will most likely be ready for some more. Easy path to nice fat sun corals

[Diana]

Thats interesting to hear that your sun coral eats pellets... when I had mine I would throw the occasional pellet on it, the mouth would eat it, and then proceed to spit it out no less than 10 minutes later. Maybe mine was a picky eater!

[Black Phantom]

My candy cane loves pellets. It just hard to make sure they chew properly before swallowing.

[tang daddy]

It's not a suprize to hear that corals are eating pellets I know a few people that feed their corals pellets Personally I've never tried myself but soon I will try with my candycane and then also the elegance and duncan although a mix of dry and mysis can't hurt.