detritus causes spa feeding response

[kevensquint]

Kinda confused, I target feed my sps a few nights each week with a mix of reef-roids,frozen cyclopeeze and grinded mysis. I have seen polyps catch some on occasion. Overall tho, the corals don't react. I stired up some accumulated detritus under a rock the other day, bam! Long white stringy feeding tentacles come out of many sps. Anyone with some insight or opinions? I seem to be basically polluting my tank with the coral food, cuz they only react to rotting detritus.

 

[Denadai]

There are a lot of bacterias, fungus with detritus.....so I think this is why you can see sps response

Best Regards

 

[chrismhaase]

When I do water changes I always blow the detritus, one to feed the corals and the other to get it the water stream to get caught in my filter sock.

I am a fan of this method.

 

[chrismhaase]

I even know a guy who had a shallow band bed stir the sand every month. Talk about polyp extension. I couldn't believe it.

 

[footballdude2k3]

I think we sometimes forget that some of the things we feed them, are not what they eat in the wild, can't take untold years of evolutionary instinct away from something.

 

[ColtonMeng]

Ironic this came up in discussion, as I've been busy with work/life for the past two weeks and haven't cleaned my glass.

Last night as I razor blade cleaned it and sent all of the algae into the column, every single piece of coral in my tank opened up and started feeding. it was pretty cool to see - didn't even have to add food to the tank!

sure was a decent amount of algae though :O

Colton

 

[chrismhaase]

I guess this is a "Back to Basics" idea.