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View Poll Results: Do you or your fish feed your corals?
I target feed my corals 14 18.92%
I let my fish do the job 30 40.54%
A little of both 27 36.49%
I have a FOWLR tank 3 4.05%
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Old 11-21-2016, 03:22 AM
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As the title stats do you feed your corals or like me do you let your fish do the work?
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Old 11-21-2016, 03:39 AM
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A bit of both.

I feel they can benefit from a squirt of phyto/zoo or marine snow now and again for diversity.

Sometimes I will target some coral with some mysis or a krill pellet when my nephews visit.

Its a bit of a shotgun approach, even with regard to schedule.

Now that I have drastically oversized my skimmer, I might move to a more consistent feeding cycle.

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Old 11-21-2016, 01:52 PM
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I have a medium fish load, and they get fed 4x per day - morning and evening with a homemade frozen mash (human grade seafoods), and 2x during the midday with NLS pellets that I coat with Salmon Oil and astaxanthin. I turn off the skimmer in the evening after lights out and feed the water column with Reef Roids and Reef Chili. They are mainly SPS with a few LPS. I also recently started using Zeovit Pohl's Xtra at night too which has made a significant, noticeable difference in my tank. In the morning I add Zeovit Coral Snow and turn the skimmer back on. Just to note, my tank is very low in nutrients, and these feeding tactics are an attempt to increase nutrients.
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I feed them Vitalis SPS feed and LPS pellet and the Anemone gets bi weekly Vitalis Anemone pellet

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