Anyone feed their corals pellets?

[jason401]

Lately it seems like our corals would eat just about anything.

So I've been feeding them pellets on random occasions. Heck, I even feed the BTA pellets too (with a baster) in hopes the clown will follow the food in there.

 

[jason401]

Every now and then this little thief goes rampant

 

[dz6t]

That is a very large thief compare to the coral. LOL

 

[this is me]

What kind of pellets? They even have pellets for LPS now.

 

[DBLeite]

My nassarius snails are little bogarts when they get a whiff of food in the tank, be it free floating or spoken for already. Usually happens with frozen though

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[jason401]

What kind of pellets? They even have pellets for LPS now.

I'm almost positive its "new life spectrum marine formula" small size pellets though

 

[jason401]

My nassarius snails are little bogarts when they get a whiff of food in the tank, be it free floating or spoken for already. Usually happens with frozen though

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LoL, I here ya, I feed frozen too. I switch up a bit. The shrimp are nasty thieves as well

 

[jason401]

That is a very large thief compare to the coral. LOL

I've had two nass. snails now for over 3 years. Resilient little buggers And yeah they're getting pretty big lol

 

[mchartier]

If you can find them try the Fauna Marin LPS Pellets. I remember Jeremy at CRA had a small bag that he got to test and the feeding responses from the fungi and welso was amazing, granted we had to sit there and keep the shrimp away as they eat. As of right now maybe once a week I will just feed mine mysis or rods using a soda bottle top to protect them and keep food available.

 

[stingythingy45]

LPS have no problem eating the small New Life Spectrum food.
I'm lazy so my fish eat that 90 % of the time and they're super healthy.

 

[jason401]

If you can find them try the Fauna Marin LPS Pellets. I remember Jeremy at CRA had a small bag that he got to test and the feeding responses from the fungi and welso was amazing, granted we had to sit there and keep the shrimp away as they eat. As of right now maybe once a week I will just feed mine mysis or rods using a soda bottle top to protect them and keep food available.

I will look into that, I mix up a plethora of options for this tank. From mysis, to fish goo, to pellets, cyclopeeze, and sparingly reef chili. Shrimp are a pita so I try to put food in an opposite area then quickly blast away at corals.

 

[jason401]

LPS have no problem eating the small New Life Spectrum food.
I'm lazy so my fish eat that 90 % of the time and they're super healthy.

LoL, I here ya. Now if I can just get them to feed themselves I'd be set

 

[sumant19]

I have always done that for LPS corals.. pellets, larry's reef food, krills you name it..

 

[ReefKeeper1699]

I recently had an issue where I fed my Bowerbanki Acan pellets. Previously I always fed It mysis. After I fed it the pellets and went to sleep, in the morning it was all torn up from one of my scavengers. The only thing I could think of was the pellets may take a little longer to digest and the cuc's could smell it inside the coral and ripped it a new one to get at it? If I were you I'd keep an eye in it after you feed it pellets if you have any crabs or shrimp. Just was a bad experience for me though maybe a rare one?

 

[ReefKeeper1699]

Other then that, coral responded fine to the pellets, put out its feeders and happily took it.

 

[cilyjr]

LoL, I here ya. Now if I can just get them to feed themselves I'd be set

I have a cheap auto feeder that feeds 3 times daily. I used to use a mix of formula 1 and2 pellets. But switched to sera merin. Even my blue star leopard wrasse that wouldn't eat the folk ulna will grab some of these. I have a plate coral that sits under where it is to grab the leftovers.

 

[jason401]

I have a cheap auto feeder that feeds 3 times daily. I used to use a mix of formula 1 and2 pellets. But switched to sera merin. Even my blue star leopard wrasse that wouldn't eat the folk ulna will grab some of these. I have a plate coral that sits under where it is to grab the leftovers.

Hmm, I'll have to look into this auto feeder.

 

[jason401]

I recently had an issue where I fed my Bowerbanki Acan pellets. Previously I always fed It mysis. After I fed it the pellets and went to sleep, in the morning it was all torn up from one of my scavengers. The only thing I could think of was the pellets may take a little longer to digest and the cuc's could smell it inside the coral and ripped it a new one to get at it? If I were you I'd keep an eye in it after you feed it pellets if you have any crabs or shrimp. Just was a bad experience for me though maybe a rare one?

Here's what happens when shrimp get to close to my ACAN



Just kidding, I think the shrimp was dead and happened to float right into it. Proper burial hahaha

 

[cilyjr]

Come by some time and I will show you what I did. It's important to set up a ring or something to keep the food contained until it gets saturated with water to keep stuff from going over the overflow

 

[jason401]

Come by some time and I will show you what I did. It's important to set up a ring or something to keep the food contained until it gets saturated with water to keep stuff from going over the overflow

Sounds good to me