Feeding coral

[allan]

I've been in the hobby for exactly four years.... On January 2013. And I learned something new last night.

I wanted to vacuum my sump for a change (need to learn how to tune the shop vac down a bit) so I used the standby mode on the RKE, which turned off my return pump for 30 minutes.

So while I got busy vaccing the rubble rock section (I'm slowly removing that part), I put coral frenzy and cytoeaze in the display tank.

So about the time I realized that pulling the lid off the shop vac without clearing the hose cases a siphon :( I happened to glance up into the dt.

My sps was melting!

It took me a moment to realize that the melting was just a lot of incredibly long sweepers.

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The red planet was doing the same thing.

I've never gotten this response, but I've never shut off the return pump before.

I'm going to do this again, but now I want to try some of the other coral foods and steroids... Suggestions?


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[350gt]

I notice this happen at night when my pumps would go in night/sleep mode....

I don't feed them regularly but when I do it's coral frenzy or reef roids...

[koa25]

I use coral frenzy. I'd like to try the reefroids stuff. Heard good things. I don't turn my pumps off. Maybe i should.

[350gt]

My chalices love the low flow at night.....

[Scutterborn]

When I started reading this post I was like http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/28/3aga2ana.jpg
But then as I read on, I was like http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/11/28/3ytenaju.jpg


- Ben -

[sergiotami]

Thats the way I feed... I get off of work at 10pm, come home shut off pumps, throw in a little coral food to get them to extend their feeders, wait 20 min and spot feed... I usually leave pumps off for an hour before restarting.....:)

[Mr Cob]

Yeah, I shut off pumps too. I shut pumps off daily when I do my main fish feeding. I also toss fish food in pretty much whenever I look at the tank..but light loads if I keep the pumps on. A couple times a week I will shut pumps off to feed coral, I like LPS Fauna Marin Pellets for the bigger polyped coral and Reef Chili for the rest. I alternate between the two.

[Big_Pun]

i have a additional timer thats shuts off return pumps for 1 hour and skimmer stays off 30 more min after timer(keeps it from goin crazy from all food). i feed reefroaids and some zeo food7, my sps are used to night feeding so polyps are always out at night.

[allan]

My coral have good polyp extension at night... or I always thought so... but when I shut down that pump... it literally looked like my SPS were melting.

[allan]

... and, SHUT up, BEN!

:)

[Big_Pun]

Ben that is some funny stuff

[Pennies2Cents]

lol Ben... Allan, Coral Frenzy works great.. Maybe you can feed at night when you know the corals are extended and already searching for food. :)

[allan]

I do feed at night, or rather at 3:30-4:00 am. But it's typically the lps that are ready to eat at that time.

No, I was just surprised that the lps had sweeper tentacles that were an inch long. Even the red planet extended sweepers a bit over half an inch.


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