best food for a favia

[Just Jim]

What is the best. I haven't ever had a favia before. I dose the tank now with phyto, and put cyclopeeze in the tank with the food, but what's best?

 

[Orochimaru]

little chunks of raw shrimp

 

[Sk8r]

A favia will eat anything: mine loves sinking pellets with garlic: but raw shrimp is its delight.

 

[Just Jim]

how do you get it to eat?

 

[Sk8r]

get a feeding probe [or just use your fingers or a turkey baster] and nudge a little chopped or sliced ordinary people-food raw shrimp onto the disk. It will do the rest.
Are its tentacles out? You may have to encourage it a little with shrimp-juice [yep, you just squeeze hard].
Be sure you have it sitting on substrate, never on rocks. They're the one stony that will move if it doesn't like its position.

 

[katpurdy]

a FAVIA! will move? HOW? it's encrusting.

 

[JAS5LF]

I think Sk8r was referring to a Fungia or plate coral as they have the ability to move but favia do not.