How often do you guys feed your corals?
When I first got back into keeping corals, I think I added food occasionally seeing it as supplemental. It became weekly, then twice a week.
My coral collection is pretty good and growing for a 40g tank so I doubled my dose on those 2 to 3 feedings per week and noticed everything seemed to respond really well to that. I went from cleaning the tank once a week, to twice a week, to now almost daily to stay on top of it.
There is a part of me that wants to toy with daily feedings and more frequent partial water changes.
My fish normally get pellets, but I have also taken to giving them frozen mysis cubes thawed out in selco, then mixed with my reef food du jour (benepets until yesterday, now reef roids).
That's my main tank, which seems to constantly do better as I increase feedings and increase my need to clean.
My office tank rarely needs cleaned. does not get fed as often. I only have 3 frags in there until I feel like I figured out my issues. My only fish is an orchid dottyback who does great. one zoa frag is starting to look good. my gsp is fine. another frag is looking hungry so I'm increasing the feeding frequency there but I only give it seachem zooplankton and it doesn't seem to be enough. (that's what I used when I just had my 10g nano and never had issues).
When I first got back into keeping corals, I think I added food occasionally seeing it as supplemental. It became weekly, then twice a week.
My coral collection is pretty good and growing for a 40g tank so I doubled my dose on those 2 to 3 feedings per week and noticed everything seemed to respond really well to that. I went from cleaning the tank once a week, to twice a week, to now almost daily to stay on top of it.
There is a part of me that wants to toy with daily feedings and more frequent partial water changes.
My fish normally get pellets, but I have also taken to giving them frozen mysis cubes thawed out in selco, then mixed with my reef food du jour (benepets until yesterday, now reef roids).
That's my main tank, which seems to constantly do better as I increase feedings and increase my need to clean.
My office tank rarely needs cleaned. does not get fed as often. I only have 3 frags in there until I feel like I figured out my issues. My only fish is an orchid dottyback who does great. one zoa frag is starting to look good. my gsp is fine. another frag is looking hungry so I'm increasing the feeding frequency there but I only give it seachem zooplankton and it doesn't seem to be enough. (that's what I used when I just had my 10g nano and never had issues).
