Feeding Corals

[reef46]

Alright, I have been keeping corals for just under a month now. I would say my corals are doing well, but not great. They have not grown very much, if at all. I was wondering if my corals need spot feeding or not? If so what is a good coral food? Here is a list:
Frogspawn
Yellow Polyps
Frag of pulsating xenia
star polyps
several small colonies of zoos.

 

[jhuggins]

I really like to spot feed all of my coral. DO you have to no? All of the corals you have will get enough food when you feed what ever you have in your tank. The Yellow polyps are really fun to feed you should try that. If you want good growth then try feeding for a while and see if you can see a difference. That is what I did. I didn't see any difference in the star polyps but everything else seemed to thrive

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by reef46
Alright, I have been keeping corals for just under a month now. I would say my corals are doing well, but not great. They have not grown very much, if at all. I was wondering if my corals need spot feeding or not? If so what is a good coral food? Here is a list:
Frogspawn you dont need to feed it but it will grow faster if you do, mysis or cylops or any fine meaty food, slow eater
Yellow Polyps any meaty foods minced small enough
Frag of pulsating xenia (dont spot feed it its mostly photosynthetic (eats some amm, trite, and trate through absorbtion)
star polyps no need to spot feed though can consume microparticle food Photosyhtesis is plenty plus what it gets out of your water column
several small colonies of zoos zoas you dont spot feed unless they are palythoa, palythoa can benifit from any meaty foods chopped to snmall enough portions as well as .
see the red lettering in the quote.

 

[reef46]

Thanks for the replies. How do you keep the food in the area around the corals? :notsure:

 

[reefkprz]

I use a feeding syringe like for feeding baby birds and spray it onto the corals gently. most corals will grab the food as it hits them if they are capable of eating.

 

[jhuggins]

You should also turn off the pumps for like 5 minutes or so.