Who feeds their SPS?

[Jack]

Originally Posted by teevee

Are you guys seeing increased growth rates or better colour or anything empirical from feeding your corals?

Teevee there has been a bit of discussion on this. There are way to many other factors involved to say that yes feeding our corals improves colour and growth. IMO, it must help but you do see amazing tanks produced with no other extra feeding.

[ldzielak]

Jack,

When you know how much the brick is, I would chip in for a part of it. Never hurts to feed new foods.

Lee

[EmilyB]

I feed my fish and they feed the corals.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by EmilyB

I feed my fish and they feed the corals.

exactly!

for anyone who wants to read and try make there own desision there are a tone of articles
HERE

Steve

[Stretch]

Humm i was kind of hoping someone, would have never feed them... then seen an increse in growth and better color after beginning to feed them. Would help determine to know if it worth while. Since thats my situtation

I'll have to read some of those articles

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by Stretch

Humm i was kind of hoping someone, would have never feed them... then seen an increse in growth and better color after beginning to feed them. Would help determine to know if it worth while. Since thats my situtation

I'll have to read some of those articles

I did a phyto order with Kari and I did notice a milli that was brown w/ blue tips turn a reddish/pink colour w/ blue tips ... all other corals seemed otherwise unaffected and growth rates seem to be the same ( although I cant be a good judge of that cause I see it every day ... lots of friends have said the corals grew before and after the phyto and I hardly noticed ) circulation/lighting etc were all the same ... also the pod population exploded !

[Quinn]

Originally Posted by Stretch

Humm i was kind of hoping someone, would have never feed them... then seen an increse in growth and better color after beginning to feed them. Would help determine to know if it worth while. Since thats my situtation

I'll have to read some of those articles

Yup, to really know that feeding does you'd have to have two identical setups with identical corals and feed one and not the other. Until then it's hard to really say "yes, it makes a difference".

[Aquattro]

Steve, keep in mind that phyto doesn't directly feed corals. And unless you could measure the amount of free swimming plankton before and after some time period, it would be hard to tell if the corals were in fact getting anything to eat as a result of the phyto.
With direct feeding of GP/Cyclopeeze, etc, you can actually see the corals eatng it.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

With direct feeding of GP/Cyclopeeze, etc, you can actually see the corals eatng it.

Damn now my corals are defective to .. as hard as I try to look I can never see them eating it.. next time your over Brad we will feed the tank then when you see one eating you can show me.

Steve

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by teevee

Yup, to really know that feeding does you'd have to have two identical setups with identical corals and feed one and not the other. Until then it's hard to really say "yes, it makes a difference".

I realize that....... But i was hoping for someone that had a large change in color and growth rates after they began to feed on a regular basis.
Which could provided some basis wether or not feeding was worth while. But it seems that no one has this experience.

Right now as it seems that feeding is rather pointless. for sps anyways