Manually feeding corals

[Sahin]

I was thinking about manually feeding my plate coral.

Should I just buy a packet of boiled prawns to feed my coral or should it be raw peeled prawns?

 

I feed the tiny bubble coral spirulina flakes and it take it well.

 

However the plate coral is really big, so I was thinking about feeding it prawns.

 

Any ideas?

[Toyfreek]

cooked foods remove all the enzymes in the meat and you lose alot of the fat and protein. use raw shrimp and chop it up pretty small. a better idea is to use a mixed blend of seafood Eg. shrmp, scallops, clams, squid etc. Throw em in a blender with some selcon and Nori and freeze it break off a chunk and thaw it for 10min prior to feeding. More diverisity in foods will give you healthier inhabbitants.

HTH,

Toy

[gabe3eb]

I use shrimp pellets to feed my corals sometime... Works great and they love them.

gaber

[Sahin]

Thanks for the tips guys.

[HuBu]

when i had my flower anenome. i had hand fed it brine shrimp, frozen. it was a long and boring process holding the shrimp on its mouth.

[Sahin]

I just fed the plate coral a piece of raw shrimp.

It took the whole thing in fairly quick, though in the morning i found it hadnt eaten most of it.  d*mn thing was too big for the coral.  Well, I guess I learnt something new.

 

The coral looks much better this morning anyway.