sun coral feeding

[clownlover]

i have a black and orange sun corals. recently i tried putting some Ocean Nutrition Prime Reef flake food in a cup mixing it with some baby brine and water then taking it up in a syringe and fedding the corals. they seem to "like" it for now. has anyone done this? do u think its bad to do this? heres a pic of the sexy corals :knockedou

 

[tosiek]

baby brine have little nourishment in them unless youve been feeding them the right way when u hatch them. Most people just use mysis and cyclo or just straight mysis.

Very nice coral.

 

[scumonkey]

Mine eat mysis, newly hatched baby brine, frozen bloodworms, blackworms,
prime reef,formula 1, krill, finely chopped silversides....
in other words they eat like pigs!
nice suns....me really likes your black!

 

[clownlover]

cool thanks guys. mysis r a pain to feed, the flake is so much easier

 

[emps]

I feed'em mysis. Turn off the power heads for a few mins and blast the mysis on them with a turkey baster. They snatch them up quick and eat them just as fast.

 

[lfsmarineguy]

Brine shrimp have no nutritional value (unless gut loaded) after the first 8 hrs (their first molt) of life. They are great as a treat for fish to chase something alive every once in awhile but they are 90% water and most of the rest is their chitonous shell. Great for getting new fish that are being to start eating but ultimately of no value. Nauplii are the baby brine and are highly nutritous right after they hatch from the cysts, unless you are hatching them yourself I wouldn't mess with them too much. Mysis are great and so is cyclopeeze.

Brine shrimp: Fun for fish and great for initiating a feeding response but of
no nutritional value.

Mysis/ cyclo.: Great for everyone. Also good for initiating if you dose with
a little garlic or some selcon.

 

[wilrock101]

you may also have to try feeding several times a week,cause that sucker could eat.That will help them grow and extend there polyps regularly.If they don't get fed enough ,little by little they stop extending there polyps.:wink1:

 

[kenske]

I feed mine the following: Kent Invert, frozen cyclops & mysis. Sometimes I just squirt some decapsulated brine shrimp eggs in the tank. The next day, I'll have lotsa of baby brine in the tank

 

[Deanos]

has anyone done this? do u think its bad to do this?

I do it all the time when the lights are out. I find that the low cost and ease of feeding (more likely to keep doing it) make up for any nutritional deficiencies in not feeding frozen mysis, krill, etc. I do, however spot feed the frozen stuff when I feed my fish.