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Old 05/23/2005, 08:50 AM
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Corals feeding time

How often do we need to feed our corals. Presently i had elegance, hammer, fox coral, plate, tree coral, button corals, brain, open brain, bubble and leather. I had oyster egg, cyclopeeze, kent's phytoplanton, zooplex, micro-vert. Do I rotate the coral food everyday. Maybe cut down some of this food.


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Old 05/23/2005, 08:55 AM
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I feed cyclopeeze every couple of days after the lights go out. That seems to be when all of my corals are feeding.
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Old 05/23/2005, 09:03 AM
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I had been feeding them when the light came on not the light go off. Is there any different? When the light came on, they had expand more in size, so I feed them. Care to explain thanks thrlride

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Old 05/23/2005, 09:05 AM
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I've got some SPS in mine and they have feeders/polyps that expand at night. I've also got a brain that feeds at night. My mushrooms probably feed during the day.

My corals get a mixture of food from the night feedings as well as the day feedings of the fish.

Just be careful not to overfeed. Depending on your corals you probably don't need to feed anything at all except your fish.
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Old 05/23/2005, 09:09 AM
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Thanks



Will observe closely on extended feeders and polyps.
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Old 05/23/2005, 09:23 AM
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since I target feed on certain corals example button, hammer, fox.
Can I target feed all corals and not pour the food into the water. By doing this, will I deprive others like mushroom and feather and coco worm from getting the food. I had observed that pouring the food into the tank, most of them will go into the overflow (read on others tread).
Can I feed all my corals on alternate days? Does any corals mention above required more than others?
 


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