Good food for SPS? LPS?

[duganderson]

What is a good, relatively inexpensive food for SPS (pink birdsnest and maybe monti cap or monti digi)?

How about LPS (frogspawn, candy cane)?

I feed my anemone and fish 1 time per week with mysis. Currently, I use a good flake and pellet the rest of the week.

[hollister]

You should feed your fish 2 times a day. I feed flake in the morning and brine at night. Your corals benifit from the food you add and also the fish waste. Once a week you could add some pyto plankton. Some LPS also will take brine just try. Use a turkey baster and blow some on them if they grab it then twice a month you could do this. Corals also need light for there main food source.

[hollister]

Oh and once a week for the anemone is good with shrimp or crab or what ever.

[duganderson]

Originally Posted by hollister

Once a week you could add some pyto plankton.

Do you have a brand of phyto plankton you like or all they all the same?

I previously had read great things about "Reef Chili" from BRS. Is that good for both SPS and LPS?

[duganderson]

Originally Posted by duganderson

Do you have a brand of phyto plankton you like or all they all the same?

I previously had read great things about "Reef Chili" from BRS. Is that good for both SPS and LPS?

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[d2mini]

Originally Posted by duganderson

What is a good, relatively inexpensive food for SPS (pink birdsnest and maybe monti cap or monti digi)?

How about LPS (frogspawn, candy cane)?

I feed my anemone and fish 1 time per week with mysis. Currently, I use a good flake and pellet the rest of the week.

I like to "broadcast" feed the tank. So once a day the tank gets a good frozen all-in-one food. I was using Rod's Food but now i'm using Larry's Reef Frenzy. These foods have a mix of stuff in them that is great for your fish AND corals. I let the powerheads blow the food around. Some people like to make their own mix at home in a blender from fresh seafood. But seafood makes me gag so I'd rather buy it.
I try to give the fish some pellets one more time per day. About once a week or so I use something like Reef Chili and spot feed the coral.

[Patroklos]

If you go the broadcast route make sure you have a system that can absorb that organic material. In the case of phyto plancton and the like its too small for your clean up crew and since in order to broadcast you have to provide much more material than what your corals will ever grab out of the column you are to a certain extend dumping nitrates into your water.

Not a problem if you have are good at husbandry or have a system that needs those nitrates to a certain extent (biopellets), but be careful.

I use rotifeast and oysterfeast, only spot fed though.

[Peter Eichler]

Originally Posted by duganderson

Do you have a brand of phyto plankton you like or all they all the same?

I previously had read great things about "Reef Chili" from BRS. Is that good for both SPS and LPS?

Phytoplankton is not a good food for most corals, at least not in any direct manner. Most SPS will need food that is smaller than 50 microns and not plant/algae based. There aren't a lot of options out there... Rotifer and the smallest golden pearls are two foods to consider.