New Chalice Questions

[J Castellano]

I picked up a Red Chalice at a club raffle yesterday and was wondering what is the best way to feed and when to feed.

I know that they feed at night but do I wait until I see the sweeper tentacles to feed or what. It is the only SPS in my tank for now and I am assuming I will have to spot feed it since it makes no sense to feed my whole tank at night.

Also I have set the frag on my substrate about 24" below my 2 - 250 W MH's. In your opinion is that too cloce or too far from the light.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Justin Castellano

 

[toothman]

As long as you have fish in tank and feed them, you do not have to feed echinos. I have several frags in a sps tank for 4 months and they really have long sweepers, about 3/4 to a 1 inch that come out in complete darkness. Interesting to look at!

 

[SPSFiend]

Aren't Chalices and Echinos an LPS coral? Just FYI

I have a couple and I never feed them directly. They have grown like crazy too.

 

[reefinmike]

they are lps!