Tips for feeding?

[BaaMNYC]

Hey guys. I recently caught the chalice bug during the frag swap and bought 8 chalice frags! It was a great experience btw.

I know they are fairly easy to keep but I am hoping someone can provide feeding tips on how I should go about feeding them and with what type of food. Directly? Each eye? What tool do you use?

Tip on how to get acans to grow faster would be much appreciated also.

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Hmmm I'm not quite sure you can spot feed chalice I maybe me wrong but I do know that acans you can spot feed them. As for acan yes directly feed them to each of its mouth. I would spot feed mines brine shrimp.

 

[skene]

feed each eye.

 

[BaaMNYC]

What do you use to feed em??

 

[BaaMNYC]

Nice to meet ya at the swap skene

 

[skene]

What do you use to feed em??

cyclopeeze, brine shrimp.. whatever it will accept.
good to meet you as well.

 

[Macropora]

Use a pair of tweezer when feeding chalices mysis or pacific plankton and a syringe/turkey baster when feeding them reef caviar (fish eggs). You can cut it up so that it fits in their mouths. Slow down the current and powerheads in the tank so that they get a chance to swallow the food. If there are fish in the tank, it makes it harder since they like that food as well and will pick at their mouth to take it away.

 

[BaaMNYC]

Thanks Carlos. I guess I have to get long tweezers. I don't like sticking my arm into the tank. 30" height. The chalices are on the sandbed.

 

[BaaMNYC]

A friend recommended reef snow for chalice feeding. Anyone try it??

 

[CoralReefer]

I use oyster feast Just make sure your turn off your skimmer for an hour

 

[BaaMNYC]

I usually just cut the return for an hour.

 

[CoralReefer]

Never thought of that

 

[BaaMNYC]

Using red sea reef energy. Part a and b. anyone try it?

 

[Turbovr3six]

If they are on the sand and not huge colonies, cover them before you feed. I use a 2 liter bottle and cut the bottom off. I then place the bottle over the coral and inject the food in through the cap side of the bottle. The bottle makes the coral have very little to no current. It also keeps the fish away.

 

[lnevo]

I usually just cut the return for an hour.

Wouldn't your skimmer overflow if you cut return without shutting that off too?

Ive set my feeding mode on my controller to turn both off.

 

[BaaMNYC]

Wouldn't your skimmer overflow if you cut return without shutting that off too?

Ive set my feeding mode on my controller to turn both off.

Not sure why the skimmer would overflow. I have an in sump skimmer. So it pulls water from the sump and returns back into the sump.

 

[lnevo]

Not sure why the skimmer would overflow. I have an in sump skimmer. So it pulls water from the sump and returns back into the sump.

If the water level changes in my sump, the skimmer needs to be adjusted... Everyone's setup is different I guess. Also depends if your return siphons a lot out of your DT when off as well.. Mine pulls an extra gallon or two out when it shuts down.

 

[BaaMNYC]

Yeah but you should always set up your sump to handle the possibility that the return pump fails.