How do you feed a Coral?

[elvictre]

I have a Galexea coral and I read that it requires to be fed brine shrimp twice a week. How do you do this? I currently just add calcium every week and also add marine snow. Is this enough?
Thanks
Vic
P.S. I also want to add more corals in the very recent futher so any help with all feedings would be appreciated.

 

[bang guy]

I feed Galaxia blended seafood or Mysid Shrimp. Brine shrimp are fairly useless.
If you're adding Calcium you must also add Carbonate or you'll end up with unbalanced water parameters.
There's not much in Marine Snow...

 

[flatzboy]

Hey bang what is a good carbonate to add?? Does kalkwasser bond with calcium and create a clacium carbonate? I'm kinda lost, I don't know if i'm making sense!!

 

[elvictre]

Hey Bang, I add B-Ionic calcium buffer system there are 2 components to it. The first is alkalinity and the second is calcium. Also how do you feed it yours mysis shrimp, do you spot feed it? Not sure on how to actually do this.
Thanks
Vic

 

[dskidmore]

Some people use turkey basters, or for deep tanks, a piece of airline glued up to a turkey baster, mounted on a stick that will reach the bottom.

 

[am3gross20]

i use one of those surenges that you would use to give meds to a young child. i let the brine shrimp thaw out and then suck it up and shoot it in to the center of the corals. i have a torch and a frogspawn. the frogspawn does better than the torch tho. and also with the surenges you can kinda measure how much you are giving.

 

[crm13]

I have had my galaxea for a little while now. I am actually quite amazed at how quickly it's grown. I'd say I've had it for about 6 months, and when I first bought it, a section of it was white like it had bleached (if I had inspected it better when I purchased it, I probably wouldn't have bought it seeing that.) Since, that part grew out and has regained its color. It has also "spread" or grown to where sections around the bottom edges have started to show advancement (tentacles are coming from them where there weren't any before.) It receives strong lighting, and I only feed it once a week. I just take some Marine snow and blast it with a turkey baster. I've actually had good luck with marine snow and even feed it to my anenome from time to time (mix it in with frozen squid). Some sources say they are difficult to take care of, and some say they are easy. I don't know which is true, but I have noticed definite healthy growth with mine doing the above. HTH.

 

[elvictre]

Thank you guys....
Also is there anything I should be testing in my water besides Amonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, and PH. I'm kind of new to this, I have the guy from the LFS come once a month to do my water changes but I want to do it all myself. I am in the process of setting up a RO unit in a permanent spot and now I need to learn how to mix the salt water myself, I just don't want to tell the guy I am going to go it alone and then kill all my fish. My tank according to him has lots of life. I know that I get great coreline alge growth and I have lots of pods and sponges in my overflow that grew naturally. But if I am going to move ahead with plans on a larger tank I want to learn all this stuff for myself.
Thanks
Vic

 

[elvictre]

Thank You Kip.