feeding corals

jja

jja

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I have just started adding corals to my tank in the lst 4-5 months and they seem to be doing well and some have actually grown quite a bit. My question is that all I have been feeding them is marine snow a couple times a week and wondered if that was sufficient. I have an open brain coral that is definitely getting bigger,a white bubble coral that has also grown a lot but lately I have noticed him opening way up so I can see the mouth,a hammerhead(bigger!) mushroom rocks,pulsing xenia, 1 blue and one red starfish,1 flame scallop,2 emerald crabs,8 hermits, 6 turbo snails,1 sailfin tang,2 percula clowns,1 pink shrimp goby,1 dottyback,1 coral beauty and 1 shrimp in a 55gal. that has been running about 1 year. I feed the other fish a combo of formula 1 and2(about 1 cube a day)and occasionly some frozen brine shrimp. Any thoughts?
 
danrw84

danrw84

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mysid shrimp is a better food for the fish. i once heard brine has the "nutritional value of a potato chip" for fish. lol
feed the brain some frozen krill. put it in his mouth. he will grow a lot faster. thats what i do with mine.
Something i found works great for my corals is zooplankton. i put it in a syringe and spray some on the polyps and mushrooms. they close around it and eat. they are getting huge.
i also use some microvert.
hows the algae level with only that little clean up crew? wouldnt hurt to add some more hermits and snails, astreas or trocus.
got any pics of your tank? sounds nice. good luck
 
jja

jja

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Algae level level isn't too bad as I do water changes once a week and clean the front and side glass. My red star is big and does a good job on the front glass. The blue star just sticks to the rocks and gravel as well as my goby. My coral beauty also really goes to town when there is algae on the glass and the tang is always picking at something. The brine shrimp I sometimes put in is Brine shrimp plus made by formula foods. It is more like a treat for the fish and a little help for the scallop as I still don't know what to feed him. I have heard the same things about brine shrimp but I think this one is a little bit enhanced. I don't have any good pics of the tank as I don't have a digital camera yet.(hopefully for x-mas)Thanks for the help!:)
 
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