How much do you feed your trachyphyllia

[NowGlazeIT]

My brain coral could eat twice a day if I fed him that much. So I’m wondering how much everyone else feeds there’s! I feed mine a pea size amount of raw scallop about 2-3 times a week and every time after he’s still looks like he could go for another bite haha the pic below is 30 min after a feeding

 

[LovesDogs_CatsRokay]

How do you feed it? I've never actually seen mine eat, but it seems to be happy. Whenever I put food on him, or it just lands on him, it sits there until a shrimp or crab comes along and steals it.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

How do you feed it? I've never actually seen mine eat, but it seems to be happy. Whenever I put food on him, or it just lands on him, it sits there until a shrimp or crab comes along and steals it.

When I mass feed the tank I’ll lightly spray some frozen food mixed with tank water over the coral and then it opens up and reveals it’s sticky barbs. Then I just grab a bigger piece of food like raw shrimp or scallops or sometimes I’ll do just more mysis in a turkey Baster and it grabs the food right away. Sometimes I’ll fight the shrimp off but most of the time I feed the tank first or I’ll just turkey baste the coral with more mysis till the shrimp gets full

 

[LovesDogs_CatsRokay]

it opens up and reveals it’s sticky barbs

I have never seen mine do that in the 3 months I've had him. Even when I spy on the tank at night and all the acans and everything else has its feeders out, the trach still doesn't. Guess he's not hungry.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I have never seen mine do that in the 3 months I've had him. Even when I spy on the tank at night and all the acans and everything else has its feeders out, the trach still doesn't. Guess he's not hungry.

Some corals have very tricky feeding responses. I have this wall hammer and first time I fed it the coral ate every bite, second time I accidentally touched the coral and freaked it out. Never got that coral to eat again :(

 

[Ocelaris]

My Lobo stopped eating when it was in higher flow, moved it back to lower flow and it would open up at night every few days. But most of my lps won't accept food every day.