Feeding SPS...yes or no?

[GreshamH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9444894#post9444894 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Justin74
As to the frequency of feeding that depends on your systems ability to consume and export. I too recommend going slow into a regiment. No sense of dumping a capfull if you have a new tank and new population of filter feeders. I have a pretty well established reef with lots of pods,worms, sponges etc. I consider these my "buffer zone". If I fed my corals what I do now without those things, my tank would be drowning in hair and cyano im sure of it. But it took me years to build it up, and is why I feed on the heavy side.
-Justin

That's what I recommend as well Start slow, build the tanks metabolism up over time.

I practice the heavy import/heavy export methodology as well

 

[duec22]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9444947#post9444947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Briankook
FWIW, I noticed a huge difference since I started adding amino acids to the food! Much more growth and darker colors! HTH

Ditto. I was haveing trouble with really faded looking acros, and I was convinced that I was nitrogen deficent. The lack of growth in my cheato confirmed it. So about a month ago I added one more fish, started to add some AA, and added reprocessed my HM fish food so that there was a lot of exteamly small particulate pieces. I'm deffenently starting to see much better color, and I'm starting to see a lot of new branches starting to pop up on the acros.