how much to feed softies?

[daisy]

I've got a tank full (relatively speaking - not so full, but they're the only corals in there...) of softies - mushrooms, rics, zoas, yellow polyps, green star polyps and kenya trees...


the yellow polyps are failing (disappearing) and all else are doing great. So i'm thinking the rest are "eating" the light, but that the polyps need actual food? I've got cyclopeeze, but have no idea how much to feed how often. and do i spot feed them, or will they pull them from the water column and everything will enjoy the food?

advice, please?

thanks!!!

 

[JHOV2324]

I've had yellow polyps twice already and they both have melted on me...at first i spot feed them mysis which they like but the shrimps will steal the food from them....i used to feed mysis once a day....just spray some mysis over them and they will catch and eat...

 

[daisy]

did you grind up the mysis?

i think my fish will steal them. gotta make one of those space-ship feeding things out of a 2-liter bottle neck or something....

 

[marrone]

Yellow polyps grow like weeds, some people think of them as pests actually. They don't need to be feed but if they're dying, and everything else is doing good, then something maybe to close to them and stinging them.

 

[JHOV2324]

Nah the shrimps steal the food...yeah u can use one of those too....