When do you feed your corals ?

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Even when I didn't have fish, I don't feed corals. Frag tank, fishless, no feeding.

Hmm
I guess it won't hurt to only feed them once a week then

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Hmm
I guess it won't hurt to only feed them once a week then

honestly, IMO, feeding corals is not necessary, and contributes to water pollution in the tank. I've got a large frogspawn that has doubled in size and I've never fed it.
As for SPS, I think feeding is a complete waste of time and wouldn't bother. I tried feeding mine years ago, found they tended to brown out more, and I got nothing positive out it.

[mohammadali]

i feed my corals 3times a week
i turn off all the pumps and power head and leave the lights on after i feed em all about 30min to 1 hour lafter feeding i turn on my pumps and power head except the skimmer

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by mohammadali

i feed my corals 3times a week
i turn off all the pumps and power head and leave the lights on after i feed em all about 30min to 1 hour lafter feeding i turn on my pumps and power head except the skimmer

Why? What benefit do you see from this? How do the corals compare to not being fed?

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

honestly, IMO, feeding corals is not necessary, and contributes to water pollution in the tank. I've got a large frogspawn that has doubled in size and I've never fed it.
As for SPS, I think feeding is a complete waste of time and wouldn't bother. I tried feeding mine years ago, found they tended to brown out more, and I got nothing positive out it.

+1. I find that fish poop is already enough. I have a bubble coral that had almost discintegrated and two yrs later is a size of a softball and I have never fed it.

[toytech]

for my mainly zoa and lps frag tank i blend a sea food mix(fish ,clams,squid) into a fine mush add some selcon and feed every couple of days , like 3 or 4. Ive been getting good growth and some better color out of my zoas and the lps love it my duncan has gone from 3 heads to 24 heads in 6 or 7 months after years of no growth , and my acans are fat and happy.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by toytech

for my mainly zoa and lps frag tank i blend a sea food mix(fish ,clams,squid) into a fine mush add some selcon and feed every couple of days , like 3 or 4. Ive been getting good growth and some better color out of my zoas and the lps love it my duncan has gone from 3 heads to 24 heads in 6 or 7 months after years of no growth , and my acans are fat and happy.

yup lps will benefit from target feeding, my duncan exploded once i started feeding it would grow around 10 heads every 2 weeks

my elegance has went from 6-8" in january to about 15-20" now:P

all my zoas grow like crazy same with my palys.

i also have nps corals so feeding them is a must or they would die.


feeding this adds no polution to my tank no matter what i feed it cant keep up to the algae scrubber.....right now i feed about the equivelency of 4 cubes of frozen and a cup of powered foods every day in the evening.


the way i see it if it has a mouth it could prob do with some feeding or else why is there a mouth??

sps dominated and i would be more careful but for lps i feed with a turkey baster and the take it all what doesnt get eaten gets swallowed up by fish and cuc.


can corals do good with no feedings= yes
can corals do good with feedings=yes

be your own judge....just because someone else doesnt feed doesnt mean its the way its supposed to be, judge your feeding by what your tank can handle.

generally if you are unexperienced and have a basic set up feeding may not be for you, if your tank is well mature and you have things in place to control your nutrients then have at er boss

alot of corals do very well with low consistent nutrients as they would find in the wild its the ups and downs that hurt it...corals dont like change they like stability.

clean water and lots of food....its hard to do but worth the pay off.


i have some zoas that are growing up to 40 polyps a month and some very noticible growth on alot of my lps/sps.....before i hooked up the algae scrubber i was fighting ups and downs in my nutrients bigtime...since the scrubber has matured i have to feed super heavy to reach my target nitrates( which is 10ppm)




ps....i also have like no fish so fish poop aint cutting it for me, and i run 2 x 25ow halides/4 x 54w t5, 2 skimmers( 1 rated 200g and 1 rated 450g) plus the ats and gfo in a reactor, plus macro and full mature fuge

another benefit to so much food is the pod growth, on the floor of my fragtank is thousands of pods and other life...youd have to see it to believe it, i account this to not many fish and lots of feedings

[gregzz4]

OK then, I think I'll hold of on feeding and just watch the SPS for now

I'll be picking up some stuff tomorrow that may need spot feedings, but I'll cross that bridge after the seller tells me what he's been doing with what I buy

Thanks again for the great info guys

[monocus]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog...d-availability

found this today while surfing-posted it for bleached corals.i run my tanks on natural or live foods-very rarely using pellets and never ready made foods except for flakes in some tanks.in my frag tank i feed twice a day with rotifers and a bit of phyto to feed the rotifers.the rotifers eat the phyto which enriches them,and the coral can catch the rotifers in the water column

[gregzz4]

Thanks for that Bill

That was kinda in the back of my mind ...
With new SPS frags, do you feed or not ?