Feeding Your Reef at Night

[dabgood21]

Just curious to see what some of you do, if anything? Do you wait for the lights to be off completely w/ just moon lights on? And if so, how long do you wait after the lights are out? Or do you feed during dusk with only actinics on?

And of course, what do you feed your night critters?

Thanks

 

[Deep Dive Coral]

I feed with actinics on only. Wait about 20 min. Add a little bit of what I am feeding to get them to completely open. Then all of the pumps get turned off and its feeding time.

 

[arnaldolex]

i do night feeding after all lights are off

 

[MIKE NY]

I mix it up..sometimes total darkness..sometimes under moons..sometimes under just actinics...I don't want some corals like my dendros just to stay open at night.

 

[Brando457]

do you feed with a turkey baster? I was wondering how people feed at night.. like the process

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Turn off all circulation pumps after the lights are off and the tank has had enough time to settle and then put in the food. Spread it around to all the corals that need it as you do and then let them eat. When the food appears to be mostly gone you can turn on the pumps. If you have a vortech the night mode setting is a great feature for this.

 

[D1J8Z]

I like to feed at night but I also soak my frozen fish food(after defrosting) with either Oyster Feast or Phyto Feast and would use Roti Feast but I ran out


No matter what I do my dendros will never come back out during the day since my goldflake angel nipped at them!

 

[dabgood21]

So what do you feed your corals?

 

[D1J8Z]

Ive just been using reef nutrition products but I also own reef chili that I will work back into the rotation when I get my tank a more filled.