direct feeding coral

[manimtheman]

who all here does or does not direct feed some corals? what corals? what do you feed them and why? or why do you not?

 

[Troylee]

Ever looked through a grow out thread in the group buys????? Let's just say I had a single eye of my Miami and never fed if 8 months later still a single eye... A group bought it and in 3 months with nightly feedings it has like 5 or 6 eyes iirc.... Yeah it's worth it haha...

 

[Reef Breeders Verified Sponsor]

I direct feed my open brain and frogspawn as well as other lps brine shrimp immersed in live phyto fresh from the culture, and I put a cloud of phyto around my sps and zoas, anything with a small mouth. I do that once a week, and add a cup of phyto per 100 gallons every couple of days.

 

[xxbrianxx]

I direct feed my open brain and frogspawn as well as other lps brine shrimp immersed in live phyto fresh from the culture, and I put a cloud of phyto around my sps and zoas, anything with a small mouth. I do that once a week, and add a cup of phyto per 100 gallons every couple of days.

what kind of growth rates do you get?

 

[Reef Breeders Verified Sponsor]

You can see new heads on candycane coral the next day, my open brain puffs up to a huge size and all corals have great color. Zoas and other softies multiply pretty fast, and sps colors up really nicely.

 

[KSzegi]

I direct feed my cynarina, plate, duncan and sun coral every few days .... with small pieces of the homemade seafood mix I use. I feed a few others about once a week; blastos, acan, candy cane - still with the homemade mix and/or cyclop eeze.

I do it hoping that it keeps them growing faster and simply because I enjoy watching them respond and feed.