Question on feeding Acans/Micromussa/Chalices

[Fliger]

I recently purchased some really nice corals from someone here on RC, he seems to get tremendous growth on his chalices. Color is amazing as well. He told me he feeds Fauna Marin Ultra Zoa/Acan POWDER to all of his corals. I can only find one place that sells it in the US.

I've been feeding my LPS about once a week, and feed them cyclopeeze (those red bars). They seem to like it, but I'm not sure they're getting all the nutrition they need. It's primarily a coral tank, no fish - so there aren't a lot of nutrients in the water. They do ok, and color up well, but no real growth. I had a couple algae issues a few months ago and cyano really beat up their edges and they seem to be having a hard time growing back over their dead skeletal shell (all three, acans/micro/chalices).

What do most people feed their LPS? I'd like one food, that really gives them the nutrients they need. I'm leary of pellets, it doesn't seem like they can digest them. And other life foods other than cyclopeeze seem to be too big for their little mouths (especially the chalices).

Any advice, or experience with the FM Ultra Zoa/Acan food would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[jr973]

i do a mixure of powder foods along with other fauna marin is one coral frenzy another hikari mysis caviar rods reef food and phyto plankton i mix this all up in a specimen cup and feed my corals every other day spot feedin of coarse hope that recipe helps some chalice grow quicker than others so it might as be them gettin acclimated and comfortable in your tank

 

[Urchinhead]

Salifert pellets. Got great growth on all my lps and great color as well. Use an eyedropper to drop the pellets into the mouths directly then fend off the fish and shrimp.

 

[Thisseemsfishy]

Coral Frenzy!!!

 

[All Delight]

Any advice, or experience with the FM Ultra Zoa/Acan food would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

After a few feedings I got a cyano outbreak. I stopped using it shortly after.

I didn't use it long enough to see any positive results.

 

[JDK]

He told me he feeds Fauna Marin Ultra Zoa/Acan POWDER to all of his corals. I can only find one place that sells it in the US.

I think cherrycorals.com sells it

 

[All Delight]

I started to use the Fauna Marin food again. This time I'm only feeding some of my LPS, basically the smallar more expensive ones to see what type of response I'll get. I've been feeding for 3 weeks now. Nothing noticeable yet, except well....more algae.

I don't expect to see anything until around 6 weeks. We'll see and I'll keep you updated.

 

[sqwat]

you cannot go wrong with oyster feast one of the best foods out there.mix it withpods or mysis and zoa or selcon and you will have a healthy lps.i use i mix a fresh foods and eggs blended that if you live on the ocean and are a chef you probable cannot duplicTE.i find that lps ,nps,sps .love eggs from crustacians and mulloscs.i use lobster eggs.blueclaw crab eggs ,oyster eggs,and we use mumichods its a type of brackish killifish we use for bait you can milk the eggs out of them wich i do sometimes .also it is good to have allot of stomata snails in youre tank cause they broadcast spawn and they do this daily and everything in my tank loves this.

 

[SirReefer]

Yes I am also interested in knowing about this product. So far what I have read is all positive. Im stuck between fauna marin , coral frenzy or rods food coral blend. Ive recently purchased a few chalice and zoa/paly frags so would like to know whats best.

All delight : how often do you feed the fauna marin ? And do u feed it at night ? Or doesnt really matter ?...