home made coral food

[MitchM]

Originally Posted by dekay

This must be a stupid question, but how exactly does a coral like frogspawn eat? I've yet to see any of my corals consume food (mysis, brine). The whole time I was thinking they're surviving off phytoplankton.

Kinda like a miniature anemone. Depending on the species, small polyp stoney, large polyp stoney or soft corals (in general) will all take different sizes of food. I feed my euphyllia larger items like silversides.
Gently place a silverside in the tentacles, and the coral will grasp it and slowly pull it in and digest it.
Oppurtunistic feeders like shrimp will take the food right out of the coral, even as it's digesting, so make sure that you give some smaller pieces to the shrimp first.

Mitch