Coral Food

[Murph72]

I am looking for suggestions on the best type of food to feed a tank that is mainly LPS and softies. I feed my brains chunks of the food that I have made for my fish, but I'm concerned those that don't open aren't getting enough nutrients.
Suggestions?
Thanks

 

[Murph72]

I should add that I have hammers, frogspawn, candy cane, clams, pretty much every brain imaginable, and a bunch of different soft corals.

 

[ReefMonger]

My corals have been responding very well to Coral Frenzy. I have an LPS dominated tank. Ive seen on a couple of websites like premium aquatics and sharkysreef

 

[Murph72]

How often and how much do you need to feed with Coral Frenzy? I was looking at it online...just wondering how far 25 grams goes....that doesn't sound like much.
I did read several positive reviews of it, but was wondering how much I'd need to buy to feed my two 120s.

 

[ReefMonger]

I feed my 90 2-3 times a week about a 1/4 tsp. Lasts me about a month

 

[MCsaxmaster]

Really, really small food for the soft corals. I always get a good response with the smallest size of golden pearls. There are a number of foods about that size on the market nowadays though. Your other corals should take this well too, but they will also accept bigger food (up to maybe brine shrimp sized) readily.

cj

 

[okdave]

Is anyone using Coral Chili? I have not tried it nor have I heard much about it. Can be found at coralchili.com.

 

[Murph72]

I was looking for something I could really add to the tank that the smaller corals (those without big gaping mouths) could eat. I hand feed my anemones and some of my brains (those that will open), but I feel like the others are getting shafted. Is there a good combination of stuff that I can feed that would cover them all? I read where some are feeding phyto-type products....is this a good thing to mix in with something else?
Thanks for your help.

 

[usagolf]

I've been using Coral Frenzy, too. All my stuff loves it and the particle sizes vary a lot, so everything seems to get fed. I used to use a bunch of different things but I like that it has everything in it, and the feeding response I am getting is unbelievable.

There are a couple of threads over in the zoanthid forum about it.

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[BLockamon]

I've been using Reefroids (bought from www.finsreef.com) for the last few weeks. Everything seems to like that OK. I've used it both dispersed in the water and target feeding.

Of course, I also use DT's phyto and oyster eggs, Hiraki rotifiers, and Cyclopeeze on occasion too. Target feed with mussel, mysis, or plankton every now and then. What can I say, I like variety.

 

[So Cal shaggy]

Murph since you already make food pieces for your fish toss some of that food into an old blender or food processor and turn it into a juice and use that to either target feed you LPS corals or dose your tank with it and all your filter feeders and corals will get fed I feed my tank 2 teaspoons of "juice" made from shrimp, scallops, cod and clams every other day.

 

[blooper74]

My frogspawn love trout eggs. Yes I mean the kind you use for fishing. I had some one day and thought maybe my fish would like them, and I saw the spawn get some and it loves them. I give it a few two times a week and it has grown quite nice.

 

[Snarkys]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7141514#post7141514 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by okdave
Is anyone using Coral Chili? I have not tried it nor have I heard much about it. Can be found at coralchili.com.

do you mean reef chili ? www.reefchili.com

i couldn't find coral coral chili

 

[okdave]

Yep, you're right Snarkys, reef chili is what I meant.

 

[Large Polyp Dave]

The coral frenzy stuff is garbage.

Do a phosphate test on the product and you'll never want to put it in your tank again

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[Snarkys]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7153216#post7153216 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Large Polyp Dave
The coral frenzy stuff is garbage.

Do a phosphate test on the product and you'll never want to put it in your tank again

I'm curious , would you have similar results with flake and pellet foods ? . I've never tested foods like that before , what steps do you take to do the test ? how much food , how much water ? stuff like that.

 

[blooper74]

I just started useing a new home made food and my tank loves it. I just went out to Walmart and in the seafood section they have a package of mixed seafood. It has squid, shrimp, scallops, crab and other stuff. I thawed it out and put it in my food processor with some flake food and blended the crap out of it, then poured it into a cake pan and let it freeze. When it was about half frozen I took a pizza cutter and cut it into little portions. Now that it is frozen solid I just break off a piece and thaw it in some tank water and feed away. The fish and corals absolutely love it too, my clown is nuts over the stuff. The best part of it is I can mix pretty much anything into it, like seaweed or vegies of some kind for the herbavores. And not to mention this food is CHEAP, this seafood mix is $2.79 at my Walmart and when I make up the food I get enough to last almost two months.