Coral food?

[ravedood]

I picked up some nice soft coral at the auction last night at the meeting. I got some xenia, small green polyps and other soft coral. My question is, what should I feed these guys? I have seen zoo plankton and other bottles at the pet shop but I don't know which one to get if any.

 

[racermike27]

My corals eat fish poop and whatever the fish don't eat. I do not target feed my corals. You can if you want though but mine don't get fed LOL, they love the poop.

Here is a bad old FTS from last year.

 

[Chef Reef]

you can dose phytoplankton, or use cyclopleze (however you spell it). just dont over do it on the phyto or you will have an algea break out :/ depending on how big your tank is only do half a cap or a full cap full every 2 weeks or so i think is the recomended dose. i put in about half a cap every 2 weeks when i do a water change. thats for a 80 gallon system with only a handful of corals. i dont have a big reef like most people yet.

 

[jdhuyvetter]

I use live baby brine every other night. Anthias love it too.

 

[macawmagic]

I've got a bag of reef bugs from big als a long time ago...and whenever I think of it(maybe every 2 -4 weeks) I mix it up and drop it in the tank. I just turn off the return pump so it doesn't all go down into the sump or anything. I think if i spot fed that the corals would grow faster, but I don't have time for that!

 

[bckane]

Tank looking good Mike