sun coral and pellet food

[justinl]

I realize tubastrea needs feeding almost every day to do well, but what do you guys feed them? Can they survive and do well with a staple of NLS pellet and occasional feedings of chopped silverside or mysis? Dunno if it matters, but they will go in a small divided section of the tank that gets zero fish traffic so they won't be subject to getting any food stolen out of their mouths (which is a real annoyance when I feed my other LPS).

[martym]

Personally I wouldn't use pellets, I would think it is too hard for them to digest. Not sure it corals drink water to rehydrate them.
Silver sides, mysis, chopped shrimp..... any of those are good.

JMO

[mseepman]

I agree that I wouldn't target pellets at them, but I can say that when I put pellets in the tank, if one falls to the Sun Coral, it gobbles it up like you wouldn't believe.

[brizzo]

Mysis, mysis, and more mysis! I spot feed mine every other day. Feed it, wait about 15 minutes, and it will most likely be ready for some more. Easy path to nice fat sun corals

[Diana]

Thats interesting to hear that your sun coral eats pellets... when I had mine I would throw the occasional pellet on it, the mouth would eat it, and then proceed to spit it out no less than 10 minutes later. Maybe mine was a picky eater!

[Black Phantom]

My candy cane loves pellets. It just hard to make sure they chew properly before swallowing. :lol:

[tang daddy]

It's not a suprize to hear that corals are eating pellets I know a few people that feed their corals pellets Personally I've never tried myself but soon I will try with my candycane and then also the elegance and duncan although a mix of dry and mysis can't hurt.

[workn2hard2day]

I feed mine every other day, lots of mysis. It amazes me how much they will eat. I am not sure if you can over feed them or not.

[justinl]

lol for the record, I do NOT have any sun coral at the moment... I just really really want them :D

I had thought about the water balance ting too but cnidarians generally are osmoconformers... that is, they are osmotically balanced with the surrounding water via their outer skin; I had figured that if this was true, it wouldn't matter if I fed them a dry food since they would just shrink a little and suck up more water through their skin to compensate... but maybe you're right. Maybe a few pellets once in a while is okay, but not as a staple food.

anyone else want to throw into the pot?

[hillbillyreefer]

Last time I ran out of mysis mine were fed pellets and really seemed to like them. Candy canes like them too. I've never seen any bad side effects from pellets.

[slakker]

I've had my 3 sun colonies for a while and for months I fed nothing but pellets... I think in nature, they survive mostly on marine snow, so whatever falls on them. So pellets shouldn't be too hard to digest, it is in water. :)

[reeferious]

i feed my 2 yellow and orange suncorals only mysis. they must be contented since i'm finding couple small sun polyps dotted about the tank.

[hillbillyreefer]

Seems to be unanimous. They'll eat anything that falls on them. Feed them a variety of things and they should do well.