feeding the zoas

[123and456]

Do you feed them?
What do you feed them?
How do you feed them?
What type of growth increase if any can be seen from feeding?

There is a lot of debate on this topic it seems and I am just curious to see who is doing what and how different things are working.

 

[c-horseman]

it seems like there's alot of debate and there's no resolution one side feeds and swears it helps, the other side doesn't feed and swears it's just as good.
alot of reefers feed cyclopeeze, others feed rotifers i think. and green water helps too.

 

[123and456]

I do not feed anything to my tank other then brine shrimp every other day to help keep up on food for my mandarin and I only change 10% of my water about every week. My growth is great on all of my zoas except a few that are known slow growers.
I was thinking about setting up a culture for rots but have not been sold on the idea quite yet.

 

[geoxman]

feed and feed more-good luck!

 

[sambo123]

I started out feeding Dt's Phyto and cyclopeeze twice a week, then stopped for a few months to see if it changed anything. I saw a HUGE change, everything grew almost half as slow as when I fed. IMO feeding helps alot, plus it helps with feeding all the other stuff thats in your tank, just make sure you dont overfeed, I think 1 to 2 times a week is plenty.

 

[cutnup]

i feed with cyclo-peeze and the bigger polyps mysis

 

[MikeD]

Do you guys just feed the tank as a whole or do you target feed the zoas?

 

[DrBegalke]

I give the whole tank phyto and/or zooplanton (cyclops) about twice week. If available, I use "reef stew" from the LFS which is live phyto, rotifers, zooplankton...

I believe the zoas grow faster, certainly there are a lot more pods in my system compared to when I didn't feed.