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Polyak
05/19/2001, 06:42 PM
Hi, I was wondering if someone couldn't clear up the feeding I sould be doing for my corals once and for all. I purchased some tank raised corals the other day. First, here are my tank specs:

*55 gallon
* approximately a 30 gallon sump/refugium beneath tank.
*ETSS Super Reef Devil skimmer
*(3) Maxi Jets and (1) min jet on Wavemaster Pro (good current all over tank)
*100#s Fiji live rock
*4-5" Southdown sand bed with lots of sand bed critters.

Live stock: (1) Royal Gramma, (2) tank raised Tomato Clowns, (1) Firefish Goby, and (1) Algea Blenny.


Now the corals I have purchased are:

Green Mettalic Polyps - currently placed half way up.
Star Polyps - placed closer to bottom
Xenia Elegante - Placed high
Branching Green Frogspan - placed half way
Yellow Torch - Placed high
Green Leather - placed half way
Green Tree - placed half way
Green Acropora- placed as high as she will go

COuld you please advise me on exactly how you feed each of these corals? I have some Brine Shrimp Direct Golden Pearls in the two small sizes, but am not sure which one of these would benefit from them and which should I feed bigger stuff, like brine shrimp or fish meat. Also, do you see any problems with my placement of the corals in relation to the lighting?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff

gas4544
05/20/2001, 10:27 PM
Do your corals look "happy"? By that I mean good polyp extension and good color. By the way, what is your lighting?

As far as feeding corals goes, I feed small chunks of shrimp to my frogspawn and hammer coral several times per week. I suppose you can try feeding some golden pearls to your frogspawn and yellow torch and see how they respond.