getting coloring and supplying food.

[elekamit]

Hey guys, 2 questions:

1. How can I increase the coloring in mushrooms?, sps get great colors from light, how do shrooms?

2. how can i feed my mushrooms (ricordias incuded)?
I know a lot of people say you don't nee to feed, just feed the tank...
But there has to be a way to specifically feed shrooms.

 

[crazy_reefing]

You can spot feed mushrooms. Just dosing food in the tank sometimes works but in my opinion corals like mushrooms may not always get the food they need. Mushrooms need to rely on the food landing on them and if not then no food. I use a syringe with a piece of tubing to spot feed. I spot feed everything in my tank - zoas, mushrooms, any other polyps, you name it I spot feed it

 

[anguswu]

No any mushrooms need to feed. Only rodactis and ricordea florida can be fed to grow faster but not needed. You can feed them with small shrimp meal that fit their mouth. The rhodactis can feed the cyclop-eeze. Remember don't feed the yuma, yuma can easier to be dead of you feed them.

Ricordea florida and discosoma need brighter light and ricordea yuma and rhodactis need lower light. The light can grow the color of the mushrooms.

Most of the mushrooms need actinic light to show its great color. You may need at least 14000K to show its color.