sun coral and pellet food

[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.

[workn2hard2day]

I feed mine every other day, lots of mysis. It amazes me how much they will eat. I am not sure if you can over feed them or not.

[justinl]

lol for the record, I do NOT have any sun coral at the moment... I just really really want them

I had thought about the water balance ting too but cnidarians generally are osmoconformers... that is, they are osmotically balanced with the surrounding water via their outer skin; I had figured that if this was true, it wouldn't matter if I fed them a dry food since they would just shrink a little and suck up more water through their skin to compensate... but maybe you're right. Maybe a few pellets once in a while is okay, but not as a staple food.

anyone else want to throw into the pot?

[hillbillyreefer]

Last time I ran out of mysis mine were fed pellets and really seemed to like them. Candy canes like them too. I've never seen any bad side effects from pellets.