In Japan, a lot of people just buy seawater shipped from islands by reefs. Though most people make their own to save money. But I care more about saving time and not making a mess. I also pour in a little bacteria and zicra water with each water change. (Common practice here in Japan.)
I basically, take the small container, fill it with enough water to submerge the coral and put the coral in. It retracts a bit . . . but as soon as I put in food, it all comes back to life a few minutes later. I feed it until I notice that it's not really eating anymore. It's been eating more and more. It started off barely able to eat an entire cube. Now I put in four cubes, since it can polish three. I usually dedicate about 1-2 hours to this process, usually while checking work from home. (type, squeeze baster a few times, type.)
I prefer to waste some food than to put the coral back into the tank not full. Since I often work until past midnight on many nights (I'm a corporate attorney), I have to be able to make sure that it's plumped up enough to survive me being stuck at the office, unable to come home for 36 hours. Or so tired that I can't deal with spending 2 hours to feed it.
As long as I am home before 1 am, I generally do this process everyday. But this week after returning home at past 3 am one night, I tried feeding the sun coral in the tank to see if it could be done. What a disaster. I think I should probably do a large water change this weekend or pour in the Japanese equivalent of amquel. The corals are all kind of droopy today, except for the sun coral, which is still super full from me feeding it in the small container.
I am getting a favia this week (had a store credit for a bad shipment), but luckily that has fewer (and bigger) mouths to feed and I hope to be able to feed that in the main tank.
I basically, take the small container, fill it with enough water to submerge the coral and put the coral in. It retracts a bit . . . but as soon as I put in food, it all comes back to life a few minutes later. I feed it until I notice that it's not really eating anymore. It's been eating more and more. It started off barely able to eat an entire cube. Now I put in four cubes, since it can polish three. I usually dedicate about 1-2 hours to this process, usually while checking work from home. (type, squeeze baster a few times, type.)
I prefer to waste some food than to put the coral back into the tank not full. Since I often work until past midnight on many nights (I'm a corporate attorney), I have to be able to make sure that it's plumped up enough to survive me being stuck at the office, unable to come home for 36 hours. Or so tired that I can't deal with spending 2 hours to feed it.
As long as I am home before 1 am, I generally do this process everyday. But this week after returning home at past 3 am one night, I tried feeding the sun coral in the tank to see if it could be done. What a disaster. I think I should probably do a large water change this weekend or pour in the Japanese equivalent of amquel. The corals are all kind of droopy today, except for the sun coral, which is still super full from me feeding it in the small container.
I am getting a favia this week (had a store credit for a bad shipment), but luckily that has fewer (and bigger) mouths to feed and I hope to be able to feed that in the main tank.
