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What if you have a lot of fish and just feed the fish and not the corals? Would that also be feeding the corals indirectly?
I dose Zooplankton, its cheap, do it twice a week, and my coral is growing pretty fast. It's what they naturally eat and thus it can only be excellent for them.
What would you consider appropriate sized food? Reef roids? Something else?I won the acro growout contest here in 2014 or so, those threads are gone now but i made no secret of what i did, spot fed that acro every night with appropriate sized food. Won me a hydra light as the prize. It works dramatically to boost growth if you can keep you water chemistry in check.
What would you consider appropriate sized food? Reef roids? Something else?
I agree with you and every tank has different needs. We been making our own food now for about 6 months for small fish to medium fish and all size corals, filter feeders we have, and have finally got a formula that works amazing and we are happy. We also supplement mysis.We feed our corals, and as someone who has studied marine biology I believe I can argue my way both in AND out of the value out of doing it in a tank setting. The responses in this post are excellent (in my humble opinion), but I'd like to speak to the benefits of feeding on one other aspect that is somewhat overlooked: the coral response/behavior.
As a newer hobbyist, I just love the way the corals behave to the feeding response. I feed once a week, and it's one of the most enjoyable things to me in the hobby just to watch the corals open, extend the fingers of their feeding polyps, mouths agape, and reeling nutrition in. I really get a sense of job satisfaction and care for our marine animals with it. I've seen excellent growth from some corals, and not anything exciting from others, but I do love the act of doing it, and watching the coral behavior to that chemical/food response.
We use a variety of foods, but have favored reef chili and reef roids. We dose phyto as well. So overall, I think the community could easily make arguments both for and against the "need" to feed, but I love doing it. I'd feed daily if I didn't think that would be overkill for corals and I wouldn't have to worry about nutrient levels later on.