HOW do you feed mushroom corals?

[brittanysmith18]

I have a live rock that has multiple corals on it, and I know I have a mushroom coral (I've posted a pic asking for a coral ID under another section but got no answers ) and I don't know how to feed it. I've been adding some liquid invertebrate food, and it seems to look alright except I also don't know how much lighting it needs. It did very poor on the bottom of the tank, so I raised it up like 8 inches closer to the light, and it looks better. (I have T5HO lights).

How do you feed it though?

 

[sucker_fish]

if you want to spot feed it get a turkey baster and feed it some mysis, I dont feed mine though because they will reproduce fairly quickly and take over pretty much everywhere, assuming you are talking about yumas or ricordeas, I have seen some people call toadstool leather corals mushrooms also.....

 

[brittanysmith18]

http://i1287.photobucket.com/albums/a639/Basmith18/IMG_1717_zps5f5b1c6b.jpg

It's the purple one I'm talking about. I feed the green one like an anemone, but how about that other one?

 

[docbattysreef]

There's no need to feed those. Just keep them in low flow and low to moderate light. I have 20 year old mushrooms and they've never been fed. They've perfectly fine on there own.

 

[brittanysmith18]

Awesome! I put liquid food in the tank every once in awhile, and it seems to be doing alright. I had it on the bottom of the tank, and it didn't seem to happy, so I moved it closer, and now it looks better.

 

[docbattysreef]

The mushroom in the top of the pic is of the Discosoma variety btw. The green one looks like a Ricordea Florida. The ricordea can take higher light levels than the discosoma.

 

[brittanysmith18]

Well the Discosoma did much more poor under low light than the other. They're both at the same level and doing better, but it looks like the Discosoma has multiplied and there's a small one growing on the other part of the same rock.