sun coral and pellet food

[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.

[slakker]

I've had my 3 sun colonies for a while and for months I fed nothing but pellets... I think in nature, they survive mostly on marine snow, so whatever falls on them. So pellets shouldn't be too hard to digest, it is in water.

[reeferious]

i feed my 2 yellow and orange suncorals only mysis. they must be contented since i'm finding couple small sun polyps dotted about the tank.

[hillbillyreefer]

Seems to be unanimous. They'll eat anything that falls on them. Feed them a variety of things and they should do well.