what do you feed your sps and lps??? (1 Viewer)

[reeffamily]

so I'm just looking for the all the different ideas of feeding stonies.

so does everyone spot feed lps or whole tank feed?-if yes what foods?

so with sps do we just do water changes and lighting or do you also feed sps. is it spot feeding or once again whole tank feeding? if yes what ar you feeding with?

 

[kcooley]

Good elements and some frozen. Larger Lps eat pellets too.

 

[zoolan70]

I feed daily with my home-made fish food, plus spot feed them a few times a week with mysis and cyclops.

 

[David Grigor]

I feed light. No direct feedings. Any corals that actually do require feedings, I simply avoid them.

I do have smaller particles in my fish food that I prepare so may get some but likely the percentage is very very small.

 

[Mike Bennett]

Somewhere on this site there's mention of a concoction of oysters and other fresh sea food that when blended to a pulp is great for feeding sps, very economical, and very effective.

Suggested search terms:
blender mush
shellfish
oysters
coral food
feeding sps

If you dislike the in- site feature do google searches and start your search term with the preface of

site:tcmas.org

which will result in a direct google search of the forum. This is also useful when searching for terms 3 letters and under (DIY LED used to drive me nuts to try to find!)

Hope that helps.

 

[reeffamily]

i'll hunt the threads. just trying to see all the options.
tim do you feed that to both sps & lps or just feed the tank?
my big wonder is acans and sps.

 

[zoolan70]

I feed the tank daily...like David said, some of the microscopic feed gets to the SPS, but not a large percentage. I'm sure most of the microscopic stuff ends up in the skimmer.

I use a squirt bottle and melt mysis and cyclops in tank water. I then target squirt at the acans and other corals that eat meaty foods.

 

[Fragtastic Reef]

Coral Smoothie, Mysis, Rods coral blend, and NLS Micro are all awesome products. :biggthumpup:

 

[Kepler]

I got some reef frenzy and a spot feeding bottle at SWE, haven't really tried it yet.

Also origional rods food feeds corals too

 

[reeffamily]

found rods foods so i'm going to try it along with my coral frenzy. making a blend of my own after reading whats in rods. nothing like a food processor.

 

[Fragtastic Reef]

If you want a really good blend you should try Coral Smoothie. I will be stocking it very soon at the store. I have tried the sample given to me and the acans and others open way up with feeders out! :beerchug:

 

[capman]

Large polyped stony corals get mysis shrimp squirted at them if I am feeling in the mood to try to get them to eat, or if I am really trying to encourage the growth of a particular coral. But mostly what they get is whatever accidentally lands on them that does not get eaten by fish at feeding time. So, mostly I don't do anything special to feed them.

The exeception is Tubastrea and Dendrophyllia, of course. These non-photosynthetic corals get Mysis shrimp every time I feed.

SPS corals get tiny particles of whatever is drifiting in the water, assuming any of the stuff drifting in the water (at feeding time, or otherwise) is something they want to eat. In other words, I don't do anything special for SPS corals other than giving them light.