Coral food??

markaren · 12/27/2012, 12:38 PM

Generally speaking. Non SPS coral food like Hammer or Aussi gonie. Is there a simple approach so I do not spend what I do not need too. Can I just use my Rogers frozen food and turkey baste them.

Obviously I am a coral beginner and just trying to get the experienced views of "don't waist your money here" or.."you need this for sure" and so on. Thanks.

Allmost · 12/27/2012, 12:53 PM

experiment.

reef tank is very complicated. there are 72 elements in sea water, many different types of organics, amino acids and so on. also corals are not like cats and dogs which we know everything about [well not everything] so we are just trying to replace what they are missing in our tanks, and observe how they react.

this fact makes the hobby more fun, cause there is no 100% sure answer. your tank might have higher nutritions in it, and no feeding needed, some tanks might be too clean and not enough fish, so Amino acids would help, some would have no particles for the corals to feed on, so particle food would be good and so on. same goes for elements, some dose iron and get no change, some get algae bloom, some get nicer corals ! noone of them is wrong, the fact is, Iron concentration was ok on first tank, high on second one and low on third tank, hence the different observations after dosing the element.

goniopora .... reef roids seems to do it for them, but I am not sure yet, this is not an easy coral to keep alive more than 1 year.

others like LPS can use some amino acids, if missing in water they are in.

HTH,

12/27/2012, 12:38 PM	#1
markaren Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Clermont ,Florida Posts: 634	Coral food?? Generally speaking. Non SPS coral food like Hammer or Aussi gonie. Is there a simple approach so I do not spend what I do not need too. Can I just use my Rogers frozen food and turkey baste them. Obviously I am a coral beginner and just trying to get the experienced views of "don't waist your money here" or.."you need this for sure" and so on. Thanks. __________________ Mark Current Tank Info: Oceanic 76G Half Circle/XP2000SSS/MP40Wes/Radion Gen1, Tunze Osmolator ATO...Maturing Stage

12/27/2012, 12:53 PM	#2
Allmost Moved On Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: canada, toronto Posts: 8,161	experiment. reef tank is very complicated. there are 72 elements in sea water, many different types of organics, amino acids and so on. also corals are not like cats and dogs which we know everything about [well not everything] so we are just trying to replace what they are missing in our tanks, and observe how they react. this fact makes the hobby more fun, cause there is no 100% sure answer. your tank might have higher nutritions in it, and no feeding needed, some tanks might be too clean and not enough fish, so Amino acids would help, some would have no particles for the corals to feed on, so particle food would be good and so on. same goes for elements, some dose iron and get no change, some get algae bloom, some get nicer corals ! noone of them is wrong, the fact is, Iron concentration was ok on first tank, high on second one and low on third tank, hence the different observations after dosing the element. goniopora .... reef roids seems to do it for them, but I am not sure yet, this is not an easy coral to keep alive more than 1 year. others like LPS can use some amino acids, if missing in water they are in. HTH,