Target Feeding Corals with Aggressive Fish

Thor2j · May 21, 2017

So what's everybody's technique with target feeding corals with aggressive fish. My dilemma is I try to feed my brains, acans, favia, etc mysis and I have a Naso Tang and a purple Tang who will attack the pipette as soon as I put it in the water. If I chase them off they will pull the mysis right out of the coral while the corals try and reel the food in. Nearly impossible.

Any suggestions?

xaflatoonx · May 21, 2017

Feed fish first. Then corals.

Thor2j · May 21, 2017

xaflatoonx said:
Feed fish first. Then corals.

Doesn't work, they would eat until they exploded.

sc50964 · May 21, 2017

Thor2j said:
So what's everybody's technique with target feeding corals with aggressive fish. My dilemma is I try to feed my brains, acans, favia, etc mysis and I have a Naso Tang and a purple Tang who will attack the pipette as soon as I put it in the water. If I chase them off they will pull the mysis right out of the coral while the corals try and reel the food in. Nearly impossible.

Any suggestions?

Two ways. One is to take them out with tank water and feed them separately. The other is to cut out the top portion of a plastic bottle and put that over the top of each coral and then target feed it through the top of the plastic cover.

Alfrareef · May 21, 2017

I use a water bottle cutted in half and after covering the coral with the bottle I insert the pipette thru the bottle top feeding the coral and letting the coral eat.
Hope it help.

Thor2j · May 21, 2017

Alfrareef said:
I use a water bottle cutted in half and after covering the coral with the bottle I insert the pipette thru the bottle top feeding the coral and letting the coral eat.
Hope it help.

I'll try this, gonna be tough, have lots of coral from one end to the other on 140 gallon.