Spot Feeding Corals..

[Reefer420]

I have a quick question- should I be spot feeding my corals? And if so, which ones and what? As of now I have Zoos, shrooms, a blasto, Xenia, GSP and will be getting frogspawn soon.

Every few days I throw in some baby brine shrimp (accidently picked them up instead of normal brine shrimp when the LFS was out of mysis) to feed the shimp(s?), anenome, and hermits in my tank. I usually use a turkey baster and squirt it at the anenome, but a lot ends up swirling around the tank. I will dose Phyto once a week, though I'm not sure of this anymore since it seems everyone here didn't recommend it.

Thanks!

 

[Deanos]

The blastos and MAYBE the frogspawn will actively eat larger food items like mysis and brine shrimp. For the most part, they'll live off of the light.

Dean

 

[samksy]

definetly target feed your anemone, they'll split faster....

 

[ShaunW]

I spot feed my anemones, they grab the food immediately!

 

[Reefer420]

i certainly don't want my anenome to split faster!!! its a constant source of worry in my tank- if only he would dislodge his D@$% foot! I'd much rather have a nice torch or something there- at least there wouldn't be the threat of it moving on me!

my last tank was just a few clowns and a couple of blood shrimp (still up actually) and is easy to feed as I know how much they eat in a couple of mins. Roughly how much should I be feeding my tank, any recommendations as to what to feed? My rock came with a lot of HHs and I'm really not sure how many shrimp, crabs, etc. are living in it! I know I have at least one large peppermint, though there might be a couple of others hiding in there- and I know I've seen at least one crab. i'd rather feed them than have them get hungry and start munching my coral

Thanks!

 

[inkblue]

inline6 gave me cyclopeeze and jhale mentioned this too, and when i used a turkey baster, which scattered everywhere, need a better one with a smaller mouth, my corals, gsp, shrooms started grabbing at it like crazy :bigeyes2:

 

[herman]

i certainly don't want my anenome to split faster!!! its a constant source of worry in my tank- if only he would dislodge his D@$% foot! I'd much rather have a nice torch or something there- at least there wouldn't be the threat of it moving on me!
Thanks!

So take him out. Its not that hard. I had a anemone problem in one of my old tanks. What pissed me off was when one day the damn thing swallowed my hoseshoe crab. I did not think it poossible. I did not want to pry the sucker off the rock and hurt it so I posted on RC. Since the base was deep in one of the rocks one dude tols me to make a thin popsickle and stick that behind it. And it released immediately. I then moved it into a smaller tank where he thrived.

 

[Reefer420]

hmmm...good idea about the popsickle stick! I have tried to moved him, but his foot is stuck firmly on the rock and is not going anywhere- I don't want to hurt him, so I haven't tried too much. If i didn't care about it, I guess I could always just rip it off ---but I do, so I haven't yet.