Feeding your Z's and P's

[SD Actuary]

For all you Zoa and Paly experts out there I would love to pick your brains on some basic Z and P husbandry.

How often (if at all) do you feed your beautiful Z's and P's.

What do you feed?

When do you feed?

How do you administer the food?


When feeding, have you noticed very significant growth / coloration? Minimal? None?


Thanks for the info!

 

[ecupcar]

I mix cyclops, mysis or brine, phyto maybe some Rod's every other day. I direct feed with a turkey baster.

 

[israel.kendall]

I feed my palys a few times a week. Squirt mysis and Cyclops or whatever at them and they gobble it up. I have definitely noticed faster growth and my palys have doubled in number on the couple of months I've been feeding.

I tried feeding my zoas, they don't seem interested though.

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[israel.kendall]

Oops, just noticed you wanted experts, I'm no expert so take my post with a grain of salt.

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[bobbychullo]

i am not an expert but i have been getting good growth

i feed twice a week at night, usually a good 6 hours after lights out (lights out at 4:30P, i'll feed after 10:30P)...

i use phyto, rotifiers (H2O brand frozen coral food, it has a bunch of stuff in it, oysterfeast).

i target feed with a turkey baster. when i started consistently feeding them i noticed a lot more growth and definitely better color...

 

[Friday Night]

I feed my fish thier donation feeds my znp's.

 

[will46r]

(Not that I'm an expert) I do a combo, I feed cyclopeeze 2x a week and I feed crushed pellets to my fishies daily and they process that into the ultimate polyp food..... fish poop! I should try to capture, bottle and sell that stuff, can't be worse than some of the "magic" coral food you see for sale.

I'm probably going to start adding Rods or oysterfeast to my cyclops feeding cycle though. I soak all the food in tank water then broadcast it through the tank with the pumps off, I only feed right before lights out.

 

[evanski]

I wet some freeze dried cycloeeze win Oyster Feast and broadcast feed once a week. I have a 12W LED over my 1G Betacube, and they have at least doubled in the last month plus.

 

[2ReefJunkies]

When I had my tanks I would do a mixture of food that everyone in the tank went nuts over. I used cyclops, mysis, brine, blood worm, shrimp, various micro foods, scallops and vitamins. This all was blended very well and then frozen. When feeding time came I would use some tank water and throw in as much food that was needed. I fed 3 - 4 times per week doing about 90% of the food targeted and the rest dumped into the tank. Oh, I would turn off the return pumps so that the food could stay around the corals and not go into the sump. I would let everything sit and eat for about an hour then I turned on the pumps. My zoas and palys would love it! You could see food hanging out like if they were an lps eating.

I noticed that after feeding like this, everything including my zoas and palys grew a lot more and looked to be healther.

 

[zooty]

I feed my fish thier donation feeds my znp's.

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and I see my palys grab small food and even flake that the fish miss. I keep reading that zoas won't actively eat and I have never seen it like I do with palys