LPS Newbie needs help

[tony098]

Hi,

What kind of food do you feed your LPS? Do you target feed?

I have: frogspawn, bubble, elegance, pipe organ, clove coral.

Thanks.

 

[IslandCrow]

I don't have any of those, but I do have a hammer (same genus as frogspawn) who will occassionally take small mysis, brine or cyclop-eeze. I've heard people feeding the same to bubble corals, and I bet they'd work for the others as well, but that's just a guess. I know the first two don't actually need to be target fed, but from what I understand, most stoney corals will benefit from occasional feedings.

 

[Honigbiene]

Adult brine shrimp are about the largest you should feed a lps coral, mysis cyclo should all be fine

 

[lemonhead]

i use mysis, cyclop-eeze, brine, and i have a few larger polyp lps that i feed pieces of krill.

 

[REEF-DADDY]

If you have good enough lighting and feed you tank lots of meaty fare, you don't need to target feed, although it will increase growth

 

[Amphiprion]

I feed silverside pieces to Plerogyra, Euphyllia, and Catalaphyllia. IME, Plerogyra are capable of ingesting much larger pieces and even prey capture (i.e. fish).

 

[Sk8r]

The plates will eat big pieces. The others do well on cyclopeeze.