Opinions on best coral food

[Jesterrace]

Frozen LRS Reef Frenzy if you want an all in one food for your coral, fish, inverts, etc.

 

[homer1475]

Ive been using reef chili for 3 years now, I have never seen it dissolve.

Also feed your corals at night when their feeding tentacles are out. Seriously, look in your tank with a red flashlight at night. While you can provoke a feeding response by putting food in the tank, it's best to feed at night when the corals are more accepting of food.

 

[sde1500]

Ive been using reef chili for 3 years now, I have never seen it dissolve.

Also feed your corals at night when their feeding tentacles are out. Seriously, look in your tank with a red flashlight at night. While you can provoke a feeding response by putting food in the tank, it's best to feed at night when the corals are more accepting of food.

I believe I read an advanced aquarist article that found a negative affect on growth when feeding in low light conditions.

 

[homer1475]

From an article I just read about feeding corals and the best time to do so.

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Although some corals actively feed on available plankton during the daylight hours, a majority of corals open their polyps, extend their tentacles with their stinging nematocysts and actively feed during the night.

I have never heard of feeding during the day causes negative growth. I have always read that your supposed to feed corals at night because this is when they feed on the reef, and the reason their feeding tentacles are out at night,

 

[Abstract3000]

I personally use Reef Chilli, how well it works I have no clue, but I also rotate between Mysis and Rod's food, I figure whatever the Reef Chilli isnt Feeding the Rod's will as well as the fish. I do have several Scolymia's who I feed Krill too weekly.

 

[Reefer Frank]

Let me know your results! Just be careful with the Red Sea Reef Energy, don't use too much!

I like this recipe you have made up here. I may have to copy it and give it a go. Thanks!

 

[Reefer Frank]

Odd, dissolves 1-2-3 for me, whether I use the Red Sea Reef Energy or not. Maybe it's not completely dissolving but it's not sinking to the bottom, it remains buoyant, but throughout the water, not at the top.

I usually don't even have to re-shake my little container throughout the 10-minutes it takes me to target feed everyone. I just keep pulling into my syringe and that's it.

When I use Reef Roids, it immediately sinks to the bottom and I have to re-shake prior to every syringe fill to target feed.

I provoke coral feeding by feeding my fish first. Within a few minutes they are all ready to eat. Perhaps not as well at night, but well enough.

My lights go out at 10PM. They are not really in true "all tentacles out" mode until like midnight and that's far to late for me to be feeding my corals.

Ive been using reef chili for 3 years now, I have never seen it dissolve.

Also feed your corals at night when their feeding tentacles are out. Seriously, look in your tank with a red flashlight at night. While you can provoke a feeding response by putting food in the tank, it's best to feed at night when the corals are more accepting of food.

 

[homer1475]

Yes stays in suspension, I'll agree with that. But totally dissolves I would have to disagree.

See I don't have an issue feeding my corals at night as I get up at 3am for work, and this is when everyone's feeding tentacles are out and ready for food. My Acans and Scolys are so fuzzy with feeder tentacles they look like teddy bears.

If you guys have never got up in the middle of the night to look at your tanks, its highly suggested to do so.

If you can only feed during the day thats fine too. Corals are adaptable, they will certainly accept food during the day if thats what they get used to.

For me and my habits I find it's just easier to feed at night as most corals are more accepting of food at night since there is no photosynthesis going on feeding them.

 

[sde1500]

From an article I just read about feeding corals and the best time to do so.



I have never heard of feeding during the day causes negative growth. I have always read that your supposed to feed corals at night because this is when they feed on the reef, and the reason their feeding tentacles are out at night,

https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/12/corals2

 

[FaithKlim]

https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/12/corals2

Thanks for sharing!

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[homer1475]

https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/12/corals2

From the summary on that article:

Our results indicate that coral growth in the wild may be much more variable than previously thought, as zooplankton feeding and oxygen have profound effects on calcification. We do not yet know, however, how high coral feeding rates have to get to actually disrupt calcification. The prey concentrations we used are only found under aquaculture conditions, although on reefs, corals can feed on bacteria and phytoplankton as well, which seem to be more abundant in the wild compared to filtered aquarium water (Feldman et al. 2011). Future research will have to determine the dose-response relationship between feeding and dark calcification rates. As nocturnal feeding may negatively affect coral growth, it seems puzzling that in the wild, many coral species expand their tentacles to feed at night. A possible explanation for this phenomenon is that at night, zooplankton concentrations are significantly higher than during the day (Holzman et al. 2005; Yahel et al. 2005a,b). The concentration of copepods, for example, can increase fivefold at night (Yahel et al. 2005a). As plankton is a source of essential nutrients, the inhibition of calcification during the night may be outweighed by the nutrition corals gain from feeding.

Notice the bolded parts. While they think it cuts down on calcification(feeding at night), soft tissue growth increases.

Yes I read the entire article.

Again another thing in this hobby where there is no right or wrong way to do it. I just prefer to feed at night as that is when my corals are more accepting of food. I can certainly provoke a feeding response during the day, but I find most food floats around the tank instead of actually being consumed by the corals. As a side benefit, fish sleep at night so there is no fish harassing the coral for the food stuck to their tentacles.

 

[sde1500]

Oh yea there is definitely something to feeding at night since that's when feeder sweepers seem to be out most. Just found that to be an interesting article about it as well.