Coral food

[Tanthaitrung]

Dear all

I plan going with hard and soft coral. Now available Polyp Lab Reef Roid (powder food) and Polyp Lab Reef Booster (liquid food). Do you think that enough? Or need more phytoplankton, zooplankton, snow ....? If so, what brands do you suggest?

Thanks so much & Regards
Khanh

 

[mark54321]

As long as you don't keep any NPS corals you will be fine. Hard and soft corals get most of their needs from photosynthesis, so as long as you have decent light over your tank they will be fine. Just supplement with coral food couple of times a week, don't over feed as you will have nutrients problem.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

As long as you don't keep any NPS corals you will be fine. Hard and soft corals get most of their needs from photosynthesis, so as long as you have decent light over your tank they will be fine. Just supplement with coral food couple of times a week, don't over feed as you will have nutrients problem.

Great thanks MARK,

What is NPS coral? Sorry about my bad English

Khanh

 

[mark54321]

Sorry, NPS means non photosynthetic , coral that doesn't need a light source, but need a lot of food, mostly like sun corals, dendros, some gorgonians.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

Sorry, NPS means non photosynthetic , coral that doesn't need a light source, but need a lot of food, mostly like sun corals, dendros, some gorgonians.

Good information

By the way, my lights work from 12:00PM to 9:00PM, from 8:30PM to 9:00PM they dim to zero. I read somewhere, people said feeding coral at night, but I wonder how to feed them when all lights are off. Could you please tell me when I should feed my coral?

Regards
Khanh

 

[mark54321]

Feed them when the polyps are out, some corals show more polyp expansion during night, some are fine during day, just look at your corals. Feed per instructions on food container, start slow, one maybe two days in a week and see how your water parameters are, it is easy to overfeed and raise your nutrients levels.

 

[Tanthaitrung]

All good information and great advice

Thanks again MARK & Regards
Khanh