What do you feed your SPS corals?

[NYReef]

As the title indicates, what is everyone feeding their SPS corals, and why. I tried using the search function but it is rarely active, plus there is always some new food out there to try. Thanks for any feeback you take the time to write.

 

[Rendos]

I feed my SPS corals nothing in particular. I suppose they may pick stuff out of the water column that I feed my fish, though. Good water quality and light.

 

[ScotchMaster]

Ive heard a lot of people use DT's Oyster Eggs I dont feed mine anything but am thinking about picking something up...

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Decapsulated artemia cysts. Ive been dosing this in my tank for 2 months now. The corals are opening and extending more and more each day. Whatever cysts dont get consumed will hatch into little brine shrimps.

 

[piberoptikz]

Oyster's egg and Rotifeast.

 

[SunnyX]

Nothing other then fish poop here. :thumbsup:

 

[Sk8r]

I maintain a giant stable of bristleworms and 5 nanofish.

 

[NYReef]

Thanks all, not as much feeding as all the books will have you believe. I use the DT oyster eggs and frozen cyclopeeze, I will add the decapsulated artemia cysts, that is a great idea. Thanks all.....

 

[PITSTOP]

Nothing but fish poop

Save your money for salt and RO membranes.

 

[NaughtyCashew]

How do you get your fish to poop more?

jk

 

[Brewen]

Fish poo here and to get a bit more out of the fish gently squeeze there sides, works every time.

 

[Amphiprion]

Fish poop and naturally spawning zooplankters/larvae.

 

[wrenchhead]

I dose calcium and alk.The corals get lots of fish poo and I started feeding marine snow about 3 weeks ago.so far so good.bali slimer has really colered up nicely.I can definitly see a difference in all my sps.

 

[duec22]

LOL...
I feed my tank shreaded mysis, cyclopeze, and roti-feast. I've been getting great feading responses from the roti-freast.

 

[reefsahoy]

mostly fish poop here, however when they behave well and do as i say i reward them with DT and cyclopeeze

 

[mntl]

I have always used only fish poop/whatever is in the water already and had good results as long as I fed religiously. I am now fishless and will be for a month or two (gotta love ick ). When I normally have not fed the tank my acros lighten significantly, I have been using only dt's oyster eggs for a week now and took before picks, after a month I am going to post pics again to see if the acros had a positive or negetive effect. As of now the tips have not lost color but I have noticed some minor lightening, but the lightening is only in the middle/brown areas of the acros. So the poop supplied something more that is not being replaced by the oyster eggs, but color is not fading only brown, where before, with no fish, everything faded. Time will tell though.

 

[Horace]

It is a general concensus that you do not need to feed your corals anything. The only time I would add any sort of "coral food" is if your tank is SUPER LOW nutrients. Otherwise there is already plenty of stuff in your water for them. Adding any sort of "coral food" will simply increase your nutrient level in the tank which is a bad thing. Often people think they need to be fed and are doing more harm to thier tank than good. Save your money for now....if you start seeing your colors fade and you only have to clean your glass like 1 time a week, then start feeding a low nutrient additive. I personally use the Zeovit Coral Vitalizer....

 

[murphreef]

i really dont feed anything either in my tank..... just whatever i feed my fish and a once in a while frozzen coral food cube but other then that just light and good water

i dont have too many sps as of yet but they have great color and most are growing nicely especially my blue milli and my valida and some other stag frag i have

 

[Lunchbucket]

i used to feed stuff but now since i have bryopsis i feed nothing but my fish (every 2-4days). i used to feed some decap brine, cyclpeeze, and some other stuff from brineshrimpdirect.com

Lunchbucket

 

[MiddletonMark]

I feed my corals, as they do much better when being fed IMO.

They wouldn't devote a majority of their surface area to feeding apparatus if they didn't need to. Nevermind IME once they are healthy and your water quality is good - I've gotten better results [colorwise] when feeding them.

As for what, leftovers from the fish, small meaty foods, and whatever else I throw in my mush [Cyclops-eeze, rotifers, etc], detritus, bacteria ...