Help feeding a torch coral

[Eddie7144]

I have a torch coral the 2 1/2 head torch that receeded and lost alittle more than half of one of its heads, it was recommended small frequent feeding to help it along. I've never feed a torch, I never even seen a mouth on a torch coral. My question is what do I feed it and how ?

 

[Reefer37]

I have a torch coral the 2 1/2 head torch that receeded and lost alittle more than half of one of its heads, it was recommended small frequent feeding to help it along. I've never feed a torch, I never even seen a mouth on a torch coral. My question is what do I feed it and how ?

Pics? If it's an infection, feeding won't really do anything.

I personally never feed any of my euphyllia. I've tried, but they don't really readily take it and eat in my experience.
If an infection, an iodine based dip would probably be your best bet.

 

[PilotOfSubmarines]

Reef Roids. mine love it, they'll make a web of mucus and suck it in like spaghetti. here is an example(not my video)

 

[El_Guapo13]

My euphyllia generally don't like finer particle foods like reef roids. They will usually get defensive and retract while throwing up anything they did eat. However they seem to readily devour meaty foods like mysis. I have also seen them eat lps pellets and even the pellet food I feed my fish, they just don't care for reef roids much. Also it normally helps to not hit them too hard with direct feeding let the food naturally sink to it from a few inches avove it.

 

[NS Mike D]

My euphyllia generally don't like finer particle foods like reef roids. They will usually get defensive and retract while throwing up anything they did eat. However they seem to readily devour meaty foods like mysis. I have also seen them eat lps pellets and even the pellet food I feed my fish, they just don't care for reef roids much. Also it normally helps to not hit them too hard with direct feeding let the food naturally sink to it from a few inches avove it.

I have my jar of Reef Roids and keep getting closer and closer to throwing it out.

1. See the nasties on the sand bed on the image for that video. That's what reef roids do.


2. I watched a presentation on a university study on sps comparing Reef Roids, another coral food mix (I think the mix the U makes for their tanks), bine, filtered sea water and raw sea water. The raw seawater yielded clearly the best results. The brine in second and filtered sea water beat reef roids. The reed roids did have success in one category but they noted it also resulted a lot of nuisance algae. They concluded live food resulted in better growth and that the microfauna /bacteria in raw seawater was a significant part of that. Also, they hypothesized that in the barren ULN sps tanks, that any addition of N&P would initially result in growth, which is why many hobbyist like reef roids, but as a long term food with reasonable levels N&P, it doesn't help


so yeah. +1 on mysys for euphyllia