Feeding LPS tank

[slgcmg]

How oftern do you feed your LPS dominated tank? What foods do you feed? I want to order some various types online. I have slowly been adding to mine and it is getting to a point that I want to ensure everything I have in there does really well for the long haul.

Have several hammers and frogspawns, brains, and scoly's.

 

[alan.reef]

coral frenzy pellet. coral happy and you will too.

 

[Reef Frog]

Scoly is the only one on your list that that IMO really requires direct target feeding. Frozen mysis shrimp, minced seafood etc. is best for these. It's a great thing to watch.

Same thing is true with the open brains if that is what you mean. Favia, Favites & other closed brains can take smaller mysis, cyclopseeze & freeze dried or liquid zooplankton of all sizes when the feeding tentacles are out at night.

Frogspawn & Hammer will get what they need from the water column but will use plankton sized zooplankton foods. Most keepers don't feed them directly and on purpose.

Just like fish, resist the temptation to over feed. .

 

[liven learn]

About every week i second the cyclopeeze it is amazing.

 

[Rbs07fxstc]

I don't like the (freeze dried) cyclopeeze. It doesn't like to sink & most gets wasted. I wanna get other type, hear great things about it.

 

[Reefer54]

I feed my duncans, ouphyllia, chalice, and acans twice a week. the frogspawn, hammer, and most others i hardly ever do....they can have whats floating around, and do.

 

[Reefer54]

mysis, and my own blend of scallop, shrimp, garic, rotifer, freese dried blood worms, and a pellet fish or coral food rehydrated, and few other easy to get ingredients....like white fish that is on sale, nori rehydrated....cook, blend, freese, break it off as necessary.

 

[slgcmg]

All good stuff. Nobody said marine snow??

 

[Reef Frog]

All good stuff. Nobody said marine snow??

IMO Marine Snow has its place with very small polyped LPS, some NPS corals & perhaps feather dusters but could never could never be certain with the dusters & coco worms. For large polyp LPS like acans, scolys etc I like the larger meaty foods like mysis.

I'm not entirely sure but I think very heavy handed use of Marine Snow could lead to struggles with nutrients but think its a good niche food. I've heard that zoas & some softies can utilize it too, but again, it's hard to tell for sure.

 

[Art13]

I agree with reef frog, i've never seen my lps have any type of response to plankton, maybe the ones i don't target feed like the frog and torch might have some benefit.

 

[Mache62]

mysis, and my own blend of scallop, shrimp, garic, rotifer, freese dried blood worms, and a pellet fish or coral food rehydrated, and few other easy to get ingredients....like white fish that is on sale, nori rehydrated....cook, blend, freese, break it off as necessary.

You cook your food? or just the nori?

For me, I grind it, mix it, then package/freeze.

 

[brcb7tuner]

I feed a mixture of rods coral food and mysis. I feed most of my lps twice a week and most of my chalice three to four times a week.

 

[BIGSKY]

I feed my a acan's and other lps live baby brine shrimp soaked in selcon every other night. Plus cycopeeze one time a week.
Does anybody else feed brine shrimp?

 

[Reefer54]

cook it. parasites are known to stay alive and well through a huge variance in tempeeratures and conditions, especially in fish...you can take halibut and hold it up to the light to see if there are large parasites that need to be cut out prior to cooking...that is for human consumption, but why risk introducing little critters to the tank when we put so much effort in controlling what goes in there in the first place.

but thats just my 2c.

plus, cooking allows a lot of the moisture to leave the food, so i am not introducing as much unwanted, unusable liquid.

 

[chrisfont23]

I don't like the (freeze dried) cyclopeeze. It doesn't like to sink & most gets wasted. I wanna get other type, hear great things about it.

I had the same problem. I let mine sit for a while in a cup of water before feeding. It became too wasteful for me. I use coral frenzy sometimes... finding frozen brine and daphnia are great for corals. I use frozen mysis and a little scallop too.

 

[alf03]

I usually target feed my acans, chakices, favias, and pectinias every few days with pellets... I used to use reef roids once a week also but I haven't had a chance to buy some more...

 

[Smpco02]

Pellets, cyclopeeze, coral frenzy, and mysis

 

[rogersb]

I feed my scolymias during a water change. I have a top off a 2 liter bottle that I use to cover them so the fish don't steal it. I was feeding a chalice but didn't notice any difference in growth or color so I stopped. Once in awhile I feed my duncans a pellet but not often.

 

[slgcmg]

What type of pellets?

 

[skidoctor]

I have a medium bio-load with voracious eaters. I feed pellets and flakes twice daily, 3x3 sheet of nori in the morning for the grazers, and a mix of the remaining nori, pellets, mysis and a homemade concoction of shrimp, clams, oysters, krill, tilapia, and cyclopeze (uncooked, blended, frozen) every night. No nutrient issues, never had algae of any sort, fish are fat and coral seems to grow well.