Food for Corals?

[danhaun777]

As I am gain more experiance with reef keeping I wondering what I should be feeding my corals. I mainly have zoanthids but also have a frogspawn, hammer, and duncan. I feed my fish twice daily a mixture of frozen brine shrimp, mysis, and cyclops-eeze. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Jdavis8824]

Couple different things you can do. 1. You can introduce plankton if you haven't already. 2. Maintain calcium, mag, and alk levels ideal for coral growth and color. 3. Can feed them reef chili which has a lot of different good coral foods that your fish will also enjoy. And finally if you want to get serious then start supplementing with Red Sea program or KH additives.

 

[danhaun777]

Sounds good, I will look into these options.

 

[jayball]

You should not have to do any supplemental feeding for your hammer or frogspawn (you could always try). Your Duncan will appreciate meaty food like brine or chopped mysis and grow significantly faster for it.

 

[organism]

You don't have to feed to have healthy corals, photosynthetic ones like you have can do just fine on their own. You can feed them pellet food if you'd like Fauna Marin makes some great LPS food, but your best bet is to take it slow since feeding corals can foul up your water quality and actually make them stop growing while nuisance algae takes off. imo if you have no nuisance algae then feeding corals is a good plan, if you do have algae though then just give them some light and they'll do great