Chalice/Acan Eating Growth

[apicturepaints]

Silly question, but does feeding your chalice/acans make them grow faster? I try to feed my chalices and acans at least twice a week, but I was reading that this one person feeds one of his chalices everyday and had insane growth.

What are you experiences? I find that my acans grow painfully slow, and I would like to see my chalices grow faster. :)

Cheers!

 

[jonbar1]

It does in my experience.

 

[CookieJar]

i've done side by side comparison of 4 Mummy eye frags, 2 fed 1-2 times a week, the other 2 not fed. i did notice more growth with the fed ones over ~4 monhts. not a lot but I fed a small amount.

 

[rjbesch]

I feed my chalices a few times a week and the growth is pretty good, but when I started feeding the couple of acan frags I have, they started popping out new heads pretty regularly. So I believe feeding them does help growth, it definitely doesn't hurt

 

[stylaster]

By feeding it does stimulate more mouths to grow. I found out that by feeding mysis instead of brine shrimp increases growth more. Im guessing because there is more nutrition in mysis

 

[MyReefToYours]

I only feed about once a week and get good growth. Great idea on the side by side comparison.

 

[apicturepaints]

I'm going to try daily feeding and see if I notice a big difference. So far, yes! But it hasn't been long enough to make an assumption. A side-by-side growth comparison would be a cool little write-up. :)