[SlamaJama]

Ive have my dendros for a few days now and there happy and healthy ,so far. I religiously feed them every other day, but its hard and im looking for some other ways or systems of feeding them.
I have an SPS dominated tank, and im torn between keeping the fish occupied while i feed the dendros, i over feed the tank so that they (the blasted fish) dont steal dendros food...i find myself standing guard while they slowly (as freakin ice melts) eat....sps dont like lots nutrients, so its a problem to over feed tank....any sugestions?

	SPS Small Polyped Scleractinians - Sometimes known as Small Polyped Stony corals. These are hard corals that have extremely small polyps. They are typically on the difficult side and require Metal Halide lighting or dense Power Compact or T5 arrays. These corals are prized for their rareness and ability to be easily fragged into multiple colonies.

[Deanos]

You could feed the dendrophyllias after the lights are out.

I use a Kent SeaSquirt to target feed my corals.

[jhale]

I got the squirt to feed my duncans, and my acans.

[fritz]

Maybe you don't need to target feed them (I know it sounds crazy.) I've been reading a lot lately about how people have a tendancy to feed LPS the "biggest thing they can swallow" and think that they are doing what's good. The fact is that it takes a VERY large amount of energy and effort for the LPS to digest large food, if they can at all. More often then end up digesting some and spitting out the rest. Autoposies seem to show that LPS eat much smaller food then most people target feed. So while they CAN swallow a large meal you're better off giving them smaller ones that they can more easily digest. The articles suggest the Ronen method. Overfeed and your LPS will do fine on the scraps.

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

Mike ,find a low flow area where the dendro can brag the food

I place my sunpolpys and dendro in those areas and they eat verytime i feed my tank no need for target feeding

[House of Laughter]

Mike, I have NEVER target fed any of my acans or any LPS for that matter

However, I am thinking you want them to grow out?

I would avoid feeding them every other day. I agree with Fred and the article on the animal needing energy to feed - when will they grow??

I am feeding the duncans once a week and then whatever it can grab from feeding the fish. This is new to me as well and I am not liking the feeding thing, but, that comes with the territory I guess.

In short:
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	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

[House of Laughter]

Mike, I have NEVER target fed any of my acans or any LPS for that matter

However, I am thinking you want them to grow out?

I would avoid feeding them every other day. I agree with Fred and the article on the animal needing energy to feed - when will they grow??

I am feeding the duncans once a week and then whatever it can grab from feeding the fish. This is new to me as well and I am not liking the feeding thing, but, that comes with the territory I guess.

HTH

House

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

[SlamaJama]

nearly imposible to find a low flow area, whr i can apreciate them, i have a baster and a asperator that i can get the food to them, its the fish STEALING the food thats the problem, even if thr full they peck at the shrimp or meat i give them...uhhhgg

[Deanos]

Quote: Originally Posted by House of Laughter Mike, I have NEVER target fed any of my acans or any LPS for that matter

Let's not forget that the dendros SlamaJama is referring to, obtain zero nutrition from light, unlike the acans and other LPS you're accustomed to. In Mike's scenario, where they are competing with fish, scraps alone will not sustain his colony for long; let alone growing them out.

Duncanopsammia is a different story, as they do obtain energy from light.

	LPS Large Polyped Stony corals – In the aquarium hobby this is a common division of the species of stony corals based upon the visual assessment of the size of the polyps. Corals in this category were among the first stony corals to be kept successfully in captivity and include many very beautiful species. Commonly kept Genera include Euphyllia (hammer/frogspawn coral), Favia (brain coral), Plerogyra (bubble coral), Lobophyllia (meat/tooth coral), and Caulastrea (candycane coral). LPS corals also include the popular solitary non-colonial stony corals such as Fungia (plate coral), Cynarina (button coral), Trachyphyllia (open brain coral), and Herpolitha (tongue coral). Like their SPS counterparts, LPS corals require good water quality, intense lighting of the appropriate spectrum, adequate water movement and regular supplementation of calcium.

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get one of these the target feed you ttank ,best way i found next to a baster