I recently purchased 3 heads of a beautiful neon green candy cane. I decided to feed it some tonight and was wondering if it were possible to overfeed them? They took the food immediately and swelled up really fat. Currently that have closed up... is this a sign they got their fill and are done for the night?
Feeding Candy Canes
- Thread starter Matt850
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Make sure the calcium levels stay high. Before I started checking my Ca levels, they dropped really low. I was feeding my candycanes and they wanted to grow, but could not build skeleton fast enough. They ended up looking like a giant brain coral with several mouths on one stalk. Soon the flesh became so heavy that it burst open. pieces of flesh hit the bottom of the tank and started making new heads of coral. Now I have lots of little baby candycane all over my substrate. Now I test my calcium, and dose kalkwasser to keep it high. My LPS are growing much better now.
To answer your question, only feed as much as they will willingly take. If they drop the food, they are not hungry. Only feed once or twice a week, or your phosphates will skyrocket (that is what happened to me too).
dsoz
To answer your question, only feed as much as they will willingly take. If they drop the food, they are not hungry. Only feed once or twice a week, or your phosphates will skyrocket (that is what happened to me too).
dsoz
baitshopboy
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what do you feed them? I'm thinking about getting some of these.
Tennyson
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I feed my corals O.N brand food by formula one. Its probably the best food you could feed them. Its meant for fish but I think its better suited to corals.
All my lps corals accept it greatly and won't let go of it at all, its probably because of the huge mixture of beneficial ingrediants. Anyways, you should try this food, much better than mysid or silversides.
Heres the link to where I found it off of, can't take all the credit, SDGuy introduced it to me and a couple other guys here.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1310698
Good luck, and this food can be found at almost any lfs, its a frozen food. And its great becuase you can cut it to any size.
All my lps corals accept it greatly and won't let go of it at all, its probably because of the huge mixture of beneficial ingrediants. Anyways, you should try this food, much better than mysid or silversides.
Heres the link to where I found it off of, can't take all the credit, SDGuy introduced it to me and a couple other guys here.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1310698
Good luck, and this food can be found at almost any lfs, its a frozen food. And its great becuase you can cut it to any size.
