The Comprehensive Coral Feeding Thread

[Steensj2004]

I feed my corals regularly, as I've always been told it helps growth and health considerably. However, some corals are harder to feed, or see actually take food. Looking for people to post their methods, preferred foods, and tricks for feeding different corals. Post any info, experience, and observations when feeding:

 

-Softies

-LPS

-SPS

-NPS

 

I know I feel like I could change things up to get better results in my tank. Try and keep it friendly!

[tubbis9001]

I bought a goniopora without doing the full research on it. "Ooh, so pretty and only 29 dollars? Must have!" I got a small can of reef roids and have been feeding it 3 times a week. Its fun to see the polyps close around the powder and eat it. lets hope I can keep this thing alive longer than a year.

 

The tiny polyps of my kenya tree also appear to grab at reef roids, while the birdsnest doesnt seem to care.

 

I like to mix up/dose the reef roids with the 10 ml syringe from a Red Sea test kit. Then I turn off the water movement, and slowly spray it on the corals I want to feed.

 

Occasionally I try to feed the torch and hammer a pellet of fish food with no luck, but they are notorious for not eating, so thats no surprise.

[fishfreak0114]

I use long aquarium tweezers to feed my duncan bloodworms, krill and mysis. I pick up as many as I can and touch it to the mouths. I closes over it right away. Pagoda cup catches food out of the water column, like stray flakes but I target feed it too. It's really touchy and closes super easy so I have to use the tweezers to drop food over the coral and wait for the current to pull it to a polyp. I use the tweezers to feed my hammer, same as the duncan but the food sticks when I touch it and I think it has actually been eating it. I put decapsulated brine shrimp eggs in water and suck it up with a turkey baser and squirt it on to the green star polyps. Pretty much every polyp catches something.

[metrokat]

SPS feeding video

I feed a variety of small particle sized sps foods like reef roids

 

SPS feeding again

Using NLS Nutricell food

 

GSP feeding video.

Using Golden Pearls 0.5 micron size

[Steensj2004]

SPS feeding video

I feed a variety of small particle sized sps foods like reef roids

 

SPS feeding again

Using NLS Nutricell food

 

GSP feeding video.

Using Golden Pearls 0.5 micron size

Can we discuss the sweet ass smoke rings you were blowing in that second SPS video?

 

Thanks for the input guys! keep em coming!

[Hig789]

I feed my SPS and LPS but not my zoas. I use reef roids in a Julian's Thing. Couldn't believe I spent $26 on it but now that I have used it it is so nice. Hands don't have to go in the tank and you can buy the replacement syringes and cut the tips off to feed bigger food too.

[apex003]

My jawbreaker mushroom has a very active feeding response to oyster feast. I've also tried mysis and ground up pellet food, but those do not seem to elicit the same feeding response.