How much to feed soft corals?

[islandgirl]

I have some small yellow polyps and mushrooms in my tank. I usually feed them Kent chromaplex every other day with the turkey baster. My lfs said I should only use the chromaplex sparingly cause it causes algae breakouts (red slime). I know that they proabably get their nutrients at night too when the lights are out. Is this ample feeding for them?

 

[michaeltx]

I usually dont target feed mushrooms or polyps they catch the food floating in the column.
what type of shrooms are they some dont really need to be feed just the lighting surfices?
Mike

 

[elan]

i use DT's live phytoplancton...since i started using it, all my corals have started to take off very nicely...
I just put a capful in every day or two... i dont target.

 

[islandgirl]

Well I may be feeding them quite well if the algae from the glass is good for them cause I scrape that away like every other day The mushrooms are green and red spotted. They seem to do well but it would be a lot easier to not have to use the turkey baster all the time

 

[daniel27407]

Ok well off subject but im in GSO too. What are frag meetings?

 

[beaslbob]

Originally posted by islandgirl
Well I may be feeding them quite well if the algae from the glass is good for them cause I scrape that away like every other day The mushrooms are green and red spotted. They seem to do well but it would be a lot easier to not have to use the turkey baster all the time
Looks like you found a good use for your algae LOL

 

[islandgirl]

frag meetings....sounds quite interesting!