What are you feeding your SPS?

spspirate · Sep 29, 2016

The instructions on Reef Energy do say daily but I'm going with every other day, feeding mysis in between days.

ReefBum · Sep 30, 2016

Fish poop for me....and I also have had success with the Reef Nutrition products.

themcnertney · Sep 30, 2016

I dont feed my sps, or any coral for that matter.

spspirate · Oct 1, 2016

Dan McNertney said:
I dont feed my sps, or any coral for that matter.

But guessing you have it well stocked with fish that you feed an all around diet too?

Flippers4pups · Oct 1, 2016

I broadcast rods food once a week at night (fine particulate from it), half dose of fuel and fish poo. Works.

When feeding corals the trick is not to overfeed. Watching p04 and n03 closely.

bif24701 · Oct 2, 2016

Give some details on your system and when exactly you are doing. It would help as I take it you want to document and discuss the pros and cons of adding foods to specifically feed corals.

fragapple · Oct 2, 2016

I feed my fish so they poo to feed coral and i dose kz xtra every now and then to give corals extra vitamins and minerals!

Bozoman · Oct 2, 2016

My first proper reef tank (mid 2000s) was a skimmer less mixed reef (very low budget) and I never used any coral foods. I contribute my success to a well maintained 6" DSB in the display, a light bioload and very light feeding 2x a week. I think a large bare minimum fuge with LR to grow zooplankton was key. I only kept smaller fish, such as the smallest shrimp gobies, wrasses, blenny, etc. The largest fish was a pearly jawfish. I did however dose phyto as i relied on zooplankton for feeding most of my tank. This was a very fun low maintenance tank and I made more money selling frags and bubble tip anemones on Craigslist than it cost me to run and set it up. In fact when I dismantled the tank to move back to Europe after school I made a nice chunk of profit that financed my move. Most my SPS were of the easier variety though monties, pocillopora etc.