Help Feeding Corals

[hitmanhoos]

Hey Guys,

I'm getting back into the hobby after a 3 or 4 year absence.
I bought a Blasto frag last week. I fed it frozen Mysis.

My questions are, how often should I feed it?
Should I soak the Mysis in anything to add nutrients?

Should Ricordia be fed as well?

Thanks

 

[Len]

:welcome:

You can feed both, but I found my Blastos didn't really enjoy feedings. Besides, my shrimps would get to the food first I would think feeding once a week is plenty. I don't soak my corals' foods, but I do enrich my fish food at times with selcon or vitamins.

Ricordeas can be fed, but they grow quickly without feedings too. I never bothered feeding them either. I found they were pests when they start growing like crazy.

 

[Anonymous]

If you can get your blastos to feed, feed them as often as you can and they will grow like crazy. Mine typically don't have a very good capture mechanism (for either wellsi or merletti species) so I don't get the chance to feed very often.

Would I soak the food? Nah.. I don't buy the whole "Garlic helps fish" argument to start with, so I can't imagine why corals would care about anything like that.

Never tried feed my rics though, mostly due to the tank their in.

 

[hitmanhoos]

Thanks for the replies.

Hey Len, could you post a couple pics of your tank?
Sorry I couldn't resist!

 

[mr_X]

i feed my ricordia. i had a nice 2-tone ric that wouldn't grow much, until i started target feeding it with a mix of misis, DT's reef blend, and cyclop-eeze. it has since tripled in size and has split. i highly recommend shutting down the powerheads and feeding them. i feed every other day for the most part.