Feeding your corals Survey

[stdreb27]

I've just begun my first reef tank. It is a mixed tank, a couple of candycane colonies, some sps and a few zoas and other polyps. I'm feeding Phytomax, zoomax, and Chromamax. basically I feed it bc that is what my trusted lfs recommends and feed their personal tanks as well as their frag/growout tanks.
What do you feed your corals, if anything and why?
I'm specifically curious about oyster eggs, (b/c they are about $40 for a tiny little tub and the refrigerated plankton they sell...)
In response to my specific tank what would you use to promote rapid growth and how would you change it?
What would you use to spot the candy canes, and your method.
Here is the link to my tank build thread

 

[jeanheckle]

Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2726361
I've just begun my first reef tank. It is a mixed tank, a couple of candycane colonies, some sps and a few zoas and other polyps. I'm feeding Phytomax, zoomax, and Chromamax. basically I feed it bc that is what my trusted lfs recommends and feed their personal tanks as well as their frag/growout tanks.
What do you feed your corals, if anything and why?
I'm specifically curious about oyster eggs, (b/c they are about $40 for a tiny little tub and the refrigerated plankton they sell...)
In response to my specific tank what would you use to promote rapid growth and how would you change it?
What would you use to spot the candy canes, and your method.
Here is the link to my tank build thread
Not that I am by any means up to the level of the experts on this site, I feed phyto and zoo plankton, I just got a Duncan coral that eats mysis shrimp and I also use a product called Coral Boost, it's filled with vitamins minearals and also promotes coraline algae growth.
Dori

 

[morval]

i use rods food for my whole tank. its got everything in it and i spot feed my corals and the fish get the big chunks

 

[spiderwoman]

I use both Rod's Food and home made mixture daily. I do also feed the clams and select corals with cyclopeeze (frozen bar), coral frenzy and this Tahitian blend (CandyCane recommended).

 

[cowfishrule]

i use cyclopeeze, and whatever frozen chunks i have (hikaris).
usually a small pile of shavings from each gets mixed in a cup of water.

 

[mgatdog]

I use Coral Frenzy it contains oyster larvae,salmon roe,fish protein,rotifers,copepods,daphnia,dunaliella salina,spirulina,schizochytrium,&haematococcus pluvialis.and DT's and mysis & brine shrimp .My coral does great.

 

[nycbob]

phyto once a week.

 

[debbie]

Any of these foods you suggest do any good for:
zoas
shrooms
rics
duster
green star polyp

 

[mgatdog]

Originally Posted by Debbie
http:///forum/post/2726507
Any of these foods you suggest do any good for:
zoas
shrooms
rics
duster
green star polyp

My zoas,shrooms ,rics gsp do great with what I feed them also my clam, hammer,plate coral,kenya,xena and candy coral

 

[debbie]

Originally Posted by mgatdog
http:///forum/post/2726523
My zoas,shrooms ,rics gsp do great with what I feed them also my clam, hammer,plate coral,kenya,xena and candy coral

Do you feed them the coral frenzy??
How is this stuff mixed up??
Is live better than the dry??

 

[mgatdog]

Originally Posted by Debbie
http:///forum/post/2726530
Do you feed them the coral frenzy??
How is this stuff mixed up??
Is live better than the dry??

The frenzy is dry. I mix it with a cup of water from the tank and let it set 5 or 10 min before adding to the tank. The mysis & brine are frozen which I thaw out before feeding. DT's are live marine phytoplankton.Dry or live it's what ever your coral does best on.

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by mgatdog
http:///forum/post/2726552
The frenzy is dry. I mix it with a cup of water from the tank and let it set 5 or 10 min before adding to the tank. The mysis & brine are frozen which I thaw out before feeding. DT's are live marine phytoplankton.Dry or live it's what ever your coral does best on.
If adding live phytoplankton to your water collumn would they reproduce?

 

[stdreb27]

What is redundant? (people making the same or similar stuff just different brands?)

 

[mgatdog]

Originally Posted by stdreb27
http:///forum/post/2726597
If adding live phytoplankton to your water collumn would they reproduce?
I don't know.

 

[mr_x]

i feed meaty foods like cyclo-peeze, chopped shrimp, chopped fish, and misis to the LPS, and nothing to the SPS. i feed the LPS because it makes them grow faster, plus, i enjoy watching them eat.

 

[tizzo]

Originally Posted by Mr_X
http:///forum/post/2726683
i feed meaty foods like cyclo-peeze, chopped shrimp, chopped fish, and misis to the LPS, and nothing to the SPS. i feed the LPS because it makes them grow faster, plus, i enjoy watching them eat.
Yeah that!
I scrape my glass, I guess that's some kind of phyto supplement, lol

 

[stdreb27]

Originally Posted by Tizzo
http:///forum/post/2727103
Yeah that!
I scrape my glass, I guess that's some kind of phyto supplement, lol
lol, when I scrape my glass, the peppermint shrimps come out and go to town, but only on the really hard green algae.