who spot feeds lps corals?

[George771177]

do you spot feed your lps corals. If so with what. I did a spot feed by hand today to my frogspawn using mysis and it loved it (puffed up huge). Todays spot feed was the only feeding i have done with my frogspawn since i have had it. Before i was dealing with just feeding the tank and hoping it got some food.

Who spot feed their reefs????

How often?

[CATALYST]

I do once in awhile. Usually if I get to where I can't remember when I fed them last, I'll do it again. It ends up being every month or two.

[big tanner]

I used to feed 2-3x a week. I would make a mixture of mysis, brine, snail muscles, and lacefish. The frogspawn and torch corals would split like crazy when doing this. Also, brain corals can be spot fed as well and they too will get huge pretty fast by doing this. If you make a mixture like this, make it ''fine'' enough that it can be applied through a syringe (without the needle of course).

[George771177]

yep thats what i have been reading. iam going to have to start spot feeding. I cant get my open brain to bring its tenticles out anymore. I think it is a flow issues. So spot feeding it is. Thanks for answering my question.

[cheeks69]

I still do but not as often I once did, about once a month. My Frogspawn is so big it doesn't need any additional feedings but I still feed my Brains as well as Acans and Duncan.

[new reefer 03]

i feed my candy canes 1 peice of FD mysis every 2 weeks or so.

not meaning to hijack thread or anything, but can you feed palys? everynow and then i will give it a peice of raw table shrimp, and it closes on it. does it eat it?

[George771177]

i have to start doing this the only thing that i would need to spot feed would be my frogspawn, torch, and open brain (which i cant get to bring its tenticles back out i think due to flow issues (to strong).

[George771177]

oh yeah i think my palys eat mysis better than i can get my frogspawn to.

[new reefer 03]

i feed my huge chunks of the shrimp, and it just dissapears. i couldn't decide if he ate that whole thing, or if a blue legged took it from him, lol.

[BigJay]

I spot feed mine. I used to only like feeding corals no more then 1x's a week. Then after reading somethings recently I have upped my feeding schedule to 2x's or so a week always at night. I feed the fish only 2 to 3x's a week so my sched is something like this ,Monday Wed and usually saturday I'll spot feed the fish and on Tuesday and thurs or Fri I feed the corals.
I try to switch up the feed as often as possible but I really like smaller feed for corals. I use mysis and mush usually and just started using cyclops which everything in the tank seems to love. With the mush I take store bought mush and add to it mysis, algae and selcon. Occasionally I buy live brine and rinse it in RO water then freeze that for feed.
I really want to try the oyster eggs but nobody locally carrys it. It seems my corals react better to smaller feed and for many corals it seems to be the more natural food source even for larger LPS.
To avoid dosing your tank with lots of floating food if you have a coral that needs enticing to feed make sure and feed it last. I usually put my frozen food to thaw in tank water so I can always take a little bit of that water and squirt it around the coral to get it into feeding mode.

[George771177]

well i spot fed my corals today. I blended up one clam, one shrimp, some dried seaweed, some flake food, and 2 mysis cubes. I added some tank water to the blender and used a turkey baster to shoot the food on the corals. They all imediately took to the food. I could immediatley tell that they where eating it up as soon as i shot tem with it. After the feeding i waited about an hour to do a 20% water change to remove some of the extra nutrients that may be in the water. Everything was going great until my skimmer pump broke. First time i ever feed and really really need skimming and it breaks.... Dang i was pissed. So i fooled with pump never did get it to work then my dog chewed up the trip peg for my light timer so i had to mcgiver one together spur of the moment.

[goldenmacman]

i do!
but it really depends on what coral it is, i spot feed sun coral, frogspawn, hammer coral, brains, and candy canes (thats all that i have in lps right now)
i usually use some phyto and tigerpod mix, sometimes mysis shrimp.. and they get a treat when i get LIVE rolphis!

[morau89]

i feed my brain and frogspawn mysis 2-3x a week.

[aquaman3680]

I do! I feel it is necessary for any type of acan, chalice, micro, duncans, and scolys/cynarias. These heavily depend on outside sources, something other than the light,of food to sustain their color/growth. I have seen these in tanks were they do not feed them and they just don't grow at all. I try to spot feed them with PE mysis about twice a week, but for the micros since they are so small, I use the regular Hikari Mysis shrimp.

Thanks,

Matt

[sandyc]

I feed any left over rotifers (between batches of clown babies) to the tank. The corals, and believe it or not, the fish go wild. I would have thought that rotifers were too small but the cromis go crazy. I spot feed my scolimia and my plate after dark with either mysis or Rods food. Actually, I never stay up late enough to feed them at night but I get up at 4:30 AM to go to work and do my feedings then.