coral food
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LobsterOfJustice
Recovering Detritophobe
If you have good lighting, you dont NEED to feed anthing. The bubble, brain, and euphyllia will eat food like mysis/brine. I dont think the leather will eat much of anything. The SPS will likely eat bacteria and bits of fish poo and other organic material in the water.
Your leather coral does no need to be fed.
Your brain (please specify what type - Trachyphyllia, Favia, etc.), Euphyllia and Bubble Coral can be fed small bits of meaty foods. Mysis shrimp works very well. Pretty much anything you would feed to your fish that's small enough to fit into it's "mouth".
Acropora and Montipora need very small food. I think you're generally looking for things in the 200-600 micron range (that's a very rough guess on my part). Things like rotifers, baby brine shrimp (possibly), oyster eggs, and a host of commercially prepared coral foods (like DT's Golden Pearls or Rod's Food) can be used.
As Lobster alluded to, your corals (especially SPS) are usually eating various types of plankton naturally in your tank (zooplankton, baterioplankton, etc.) whether you realize it or not.
Your brain (please specify what type - Trachyphyllia, Favia, etc.), Euphyllia and Bubble Coral can be fed small bits of meaty foods. Mysis shrimp works very well. Pretty much anything you would feed to your fish that's small enough to fit into it's "mouth".
Acropora and Montipora need very small food. I think you're generally looking for things in the 200-600 micron range (that's a very rough guess on my part). Things like rotifers, baby brine shrimp (possibly), oyster eggs, and a host of commercially prepared coral foods (like DT's Golden Pearls or Rod's Food) can be used.
As Lobster alluded to, your corals (especially SPS) are usually eating various types of plankton naturally in your tank (zooplankton, baterioplankton, etc.) whether you realize it or not.
redfishsc
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You can also feed your LPS sinking pellet fish food. While some folks balk at this, I've done it for 6 months on a duncan coral that has gone from a single, small head and it's now one big head with 9 other heads sprouting off. I feed it about 3 times a week plus whatever it catches when I feed the fish.
Don't overdo the pellet food--- it can increase your phosphate.
Don't overdo the pellet food--- it can increase your phosphate.
