Feeding Coral advise

Hi,

Would need advises on how you feed your corals. I have several kind of corals (no SPS, but LPS, such as Elegances, Brains, Plates, Bubbles, Buttons, Green eyes, Hammers, lots of Mushroom all kinds, Zoas, and some softies like Xenia, Toadstool, Cauliflower, Finger leather) AND I am new in reefing..

I usually feed them at night after an hour when the light is off and when most of them have already deployed their “arms..”
But there are also some corals that close as soon as the light is off. I feed them with coral frenzy and Cyclop-eeze twice a week.

The easiest way would be to feed them once during the day with lights on and once at night once lights off.

Also since they are all photosynthetic corals, do I really need to feed them? I really don’t want to spoil my water with these foods!

How do you do that?

Thanks

 

Wow, you're ding a lot of feeding IMO. I never feed soft corals or SPS. Just LPS and that's maybe once every few weeks. I usually put some small pieces of shrimp in the LPS mouths when I'm feeding my anemones. I'll also feed some mysis.

 

It really depends what exact coral you are talking about, you mentioned a HUGE range of care requirements in your list there, for the most part they don't require feeding but I generally feed anything that extends feeder tentacles at least once every week or two, a lot I do more. In your list I would probably target feed the elegance, "brain", plate and bubble coral once or twice a week with something meaty, mysis or something.
More food generally means faster growth but it also means more nutrients in your water so feeding coral every single day, no matter what you're feeding is probably too much.
I would cut way back on feeding if you're feeding every day, and try and find some info about each coral's requirements, that's the only way to be sure. Also each coral type may require completely different food types, from microscopic phytoplankton to mysis/shrimp.

 

I tried feeding my zoas but they didn't care. I'm starting to believe its a pally thing, and people are mislabeling zoas as pallys.

Unless you can see feeder tentacles at night, most sps, wont eat anything you can see with the naked eye.

Favia on the other hand love to eat stuff.

That's my experience.