Feeding new corals

[Beldarr]

Tomorrow i am going to get the following corals. I have read up on putting them in my tank, but am a bit confused on feeding. I have a 125gallon tank with refugium, live rock, a clown fish, a tang, and mixture of 90 snails, and other cleanup crews.

Purple Whip
Star Polyp Green
Neon Green Brain Frag
Bubble tip Anemone
Zoa

Thanks for any advice

 

[Beldarr]

Yes i know the anemone is not a coral.

 

[MondoBongo]

i can't speak to the anemone, but the other ones i wouldn't be too worried about feeding. assuming the "purple whip" is a photosynthetic gorgonian, and not some kind of NPS.

i've seen zoa's take pellets before, but when i kept Z's and P's they barely had any appreciable feeding response.

what kind of "neon green brain frag" are you talking about? if it is an "open brain" like a lobophyllia or trachyphyllia , then it will likely accept some different kinds of foods. if it is a favia type like say a platygyra, the it might not have a strong feeding response.

when i do feed my corals, i very rarely do, i usually give a mix of frozen, mainly PE Myses.

 

[Beldarr]

I currently feed my fish by taking frozen food mixing it in saltwater until it break apart and then i use a syringe to pit it in water and my fish come along and eat. Will this work for the corals too then?

 

[MondoBongo]

yeah, i just used a plastic eye dropper with the tip cut off to target feed my corals, but like i said, nothing on your list, save maybe the brain, is going to have a strong feeding response.

 

[Mcgeezer]

The only thing that needs to be fed is the anemone...about once a week.

The brain will benefit from a weekly feeding at night when it's tentacles are out. Other then that, everything else is 100% photosynthetic. If I was you, I'd avoid green star polyps. They look cool...but they grow in plague like proportions and can literally overtake everything in your tank.

 

[darmar7812]

Technically the anemone doesn't need to be fed at all unless it's completely bleached. They will derive everything they need food wise from the light.