Acan Lord

[hossa81]

So i got this coral acouple days back. Put it in the substrate at the base of the tank and ever since, it has showed its feeding tentacles, not sure if this is because of stress or if its hungy for food. Should i just let it sit for acouple of days or should i just attempt to feed it? If i were to feed them, what should i offer?

 

[cloak]

I would try and feed it something. They're not very picky IME, so anything should work. Also, they don't need very much. Just as an example, if you were going to feed it pellets, one, maybe two pellets per polyp should suffice.

 

[Reefing21715]

i will try mysis its work nice

 

[noobofthereef]

In my experience they eat almost anything. Pellets, mysis, brine, squid, etc.

 

[Don Quixote]

i like to mix nutramar ova, coral accel, reef snow by brightwell aquatics, seachem phytoplankton, some shaved mysis, a little of Dans feed from seahorse source.com, and sometimes some beef heart. Seems to get corals to double in size within a month. 500 calc levels 10-11 alk. The italians use fresh seafood which seems to increase coral growth/coloration as well.
This is just what works for me.
Regards,
The Don

 

[lhscouchmonster]

its probably stressed. give it some time if its new. might as well try feeding it though. i dont think i would hurt.

in my experience mysis is the easier to feed than pellets. the mysis stick to the tenacles pretty well and my LPS seem to like them a lot.

 

[hossa81]

Fed the polyps, ate like hogs. Feeding tentacles came back out, moved them and they came out farther. I'm guessing like ihscouchmonster said, its just stress.

 

[ahmed_iAM]

IMO I feed mine as much as I feed my NPS, but try to feed it at night, not the day. I had three colonies now that have tentacles out 24/7, and are a sore to see during the day