m3rcury
05/22/2006, 03:19 PM
i'm new to reef keeping and wanted some information about feeding soft corals.
i have:
1) small xenia
2) very small button polyp colony
3) 2 mushrooms
4) very small star polyp
5) neon green finger leather
all of these are in a 40 breeder with a 250w 14k MH. all of my water parameters are good except my nitrate, which is about 20 ppm. Ca is 430 and dKH is around 10. aside from these, there is a very small montapora frag and a newly aquired favite along with a coral beauty and flame hawkfish.
the LFS said i don't need to worry about feeding the soft corals, but they have been wrong before. do i need to feed any of the above soft corals? if so, what should i feed and how do i do it?
thanks in advance for any suggestions you folks can give.
i have:
1) small xenia
2) very small button polyp colony
3) 2 mushrooms
4) very small star polyp
5) neon green finger leather
all of these are in a 40 breeder with a 250w 14k MH. all of my water parameters are good except my nitrate, which is about 20 ppm. Ca is 430 and dKH is around 10. aside from these, there is a very small montapora frag and a newly aquired favite along with a coral beauty and flame hawkfish.
the LFS said i don't need to worry about feeding the soft corals, but they have been wrong before. do i need to feed any of the above soft corals? if so, what should i feed and how do i do it?
thanks in advance for any suggestions you folks can give.