coral care

[jfarr]

what are the thoughts about feeding plain old store bought shrimp sliced small to feed to the corals, i find brine makes to much mess. seems as though i read you should not but i cant remember thanks

 

[NirvanaFan]

What corals are you feeding?

 

[magdelan]

As long as it's rinsed and cut into small enough pieces, why not? I used to make a blend of rodi water, nori, garlic, salmon, mussels, shrimp, tuna, and squid in a food processor. I would do just a few quick pulses and pour it into a Pyrex. After it was frozen, I would slice it into cubes. Then I would carefully remove them and store them in a container in the freezer. Many people would add suppliments to this mixture. Give it a try!

 

[Eastamherstbias]

Ummm, I do it daily, I turned a one head of todds torch into 30 feeding wegmans thawed shrimp 3-4 times a week. I feed my duncans / bubbles / todds/ acans /bta all with it.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

my thoughts exactly

my thoughts exactly

What corals are you feeding?

 

[Bobtail1075]

How are you feeding them? Are you spot feeding somehow or just feeding the tank?

 

[rjmayes34]

yup i do to, i just by the unbleached and skin it myself then freeze it. They love it!!!
Same with clams, but they are a little messy!!

 

[jfarr]

i have some duncan torch, acans, hammer, i have been using brine at the ebd of tweezers and i spreed more around the tank more than ifeed,thought a peice of small shrimp would be cleaner but wanted to make sure thank you all

 

[iamwrasseman]

for the most part your corals will do just fine getting the table scraps leftover from your fish . yes you could spot feed them if you wanted to and i would use PE mysis for that as its very clean and there are not any tiny pieces floating everywhere when your done .

 

[Shells4]

Duncans and ricordias we feed pieces of mysis with tweezers. Most corals we just use our home blended mix of food. I've found our brains, elegance, and several other corals really seem to like small pieces of scallops. It seems like they are softer then chunks of large shrimp and they have an easier time pulling them in IMO.