Spot feeding Rics?

vanceny · 05-27-2008, 04:02 PM

For those that do so, do you need to put an inverted bottle over them so fish do not steel the food? Also what are you feeding?

Thanks.

rookie07 · 05-27-2008, 04:13 PM

I would think spot feeding is totally unneccasary for rics....

but im a rookie

vanceny · 05-27-2008, 04:23 PM

That maybe true but I think if you want them to reproduce faster spot feeding would help. I think that our vendor here SWA has a feeding procedure that they use.

mstrofdisaster · 05-27-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by vanceny


	That maybe true but I think if you want them to reproduce faster spot feeding would help. I think that our vendor here SWA has a feeding procedure that they use.

You could try spot feeding cyclopeeze, but i never feed mine and they;re growing - from SWA too.

daaznmofo · 05-27-2008, 05:11 PM

they eat whatever you give them - krill, mysis, brine

JHOV2324 · 05-27-2008, 05:19 PM

I think they grow faster as well but its hard to keep all them shrimp and snails and hermits away......i used the soda bottle trick but the hermits wud just pick the bottle up and go under and snails wud make it in too

rbtwo4 · 05-27-2008, 11:49 PM

before i feed my corals what i do is squirt a bunchof food into the corner wait a couple of minutes for my shrimp snails & hermits to attack it then i feed the rics and so on. works so far.

Killerdrgn · 05-28-2008, 12:06 AM

Yeah I give my rics shredded raw shrimp and silver sides, they grow pretty quick. They're in my frag tank right now and it doesn't have too big of a clean up crew so I'm not sure about the hermits and such stealing from them.

05-27-2008, 04:02 PM	#1
vanceny Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Woodside, Queens Posts: 800 Reefer Ratings: (15) Friends: (0)	Spot feeding Rics? For those that do so, do you need to put an inverted bottle over them so fish do not steel the food? Also what are you feeding? Thanks.

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JHOV2324 Love da Reef-er Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brooklyn, New York Posts: 2,662 Reefer Ratings: (30) Friends: (14)	I think they grow faster as well but its hard to keep all them shrimp and snails and hermits away......i used the soda bottle trick but the hermits wud just pick the bottle up and go under and snails wud make it in too __________________

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05-27-2008, 04:23 PM	#3
vanceny Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Woodside, Queens Posts: 800 Reefer Ratings: (15) Friends: (0)	That maybe true but I think if you want them to reproduce faster spot feeding would help. I think that our vendor here SWA has a feeding procedure that they use.

05-27-2008, 05:11 PM	#5
daaznmofo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: queens Posts: 565 Reefer Ratings: (46) Friends: (9)	they eat whatever you give them - krill, mysis, brine

05-27-2008, 11:49 PM	#7
rbtwo4 Newbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jackson heights Posts: 252 Reefer Ratings: (13) Friends: (2)	before i feed my corals what i do is squirt a bunchof food into the corner wait a couple of minutes for my shrimp snails & hermits to attack it then i feed the rics and so on. works so far.

05-28-2008, 12:06 AM	#8
Killerdrgn Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Forest Hills Posts: 1,505 Reefer Ratings: (11) Friends: (5)	Yeah I give my rics shredded raw shrimp and silver sides, they grow pretty quick. They're in my frag tank right now and it doesn't have too big of a clean up crew so I'm not sure about the hermits and such stealing from them.