How long after acclimation should you feed corals

[IloveGreatDanes]

I just got my delivery this morning of blue mushrooms. They have been acclimated and are in a quarantine tank. How long should I wait before feeding them. All help is appreciated.

 

[kichimark]

The only mushrooms I feed are the hairy's. I don't feed the blues and never seen them have a feeding response either. Just light is good for them in my tank and they spread quick.

 

[organism]

Unless you've got sun polyps you never have to feed any of your corals, it's usually a myth LFS will tell you to get you to buy coral food. Most mushrooms grow pretty fast on their own without feeding, and unless they're hairy mushrooms or rics it's a pain to even get them to eat. Save your energy, money and water quality for other things

 

[akitareefer]

If you don't have any fish you may need to feed your corals. Fish waste=coral food

 

[organism]

If you don't have any fish you may need to feed your corals. Fish waste=coral food

Light = coral food. Fish waste is also coral food, but my tank was fish free for over a year with no feeding and everything grew fine. I know several people with fish-free tanks, they're cool little eco-systems. The vast majority of people new to reefkeeping should steer clear of feeding corals imo, it's really not a necessity and there's too much of a tendency to overfeed and pollute the water, which at best causes corals to stop growing.

 

[IloveGreatDanes]

Well it doesnt really matter now because I woke up yesterday and the had disappeared. I have checked everywhere without moving my rocks. Anyone have suggestions

 

[organism]

Were they well attached to the rock when they arrived, and where did you place them in the tank? Salinity and alkalinity can be the issue sometimes too.

 

[IloveGreatDanes]

they were on a small rock and I placed them in the sand

 

[Baconbandit]

when i first started my tank i made pretty much every mistake you could think of and never lost a mushroom. i've had them shrivel up, turn inside out, etc. but they've always made it.

i've heard of shrimp eating mushrooms before. or perhaps some other hitchhiker.

 

[IloveGreatDanes]

well checked the chemicals and parametersto make sure everything was ok and the salinity was at 1.032. Got it back down to 1.024 and still cant find them