?'s on target feeding

[muzz]

Hello all, I currently have a candy cane coral, and I was wondering about target feeding. I feed them plankton, or finely chopped shrimp right now, but my main question is when i am feeding them using a baster, do you have to get each polyp? or does the colony somehow "share" the nutrients. I just don't know if each polyp is considered a seperate animal, or not. I am relatively new with keeping corals, so please forgive my ignorance on this subject. Any help would be appreciatted, thank you,
muzz

[toddman74]

Yes each polyps should be fed.... most of the time I just blow a cloud of food over the whole colony and they fend for themselves.

[drummereef]

Do you 'need' to target feed or do they filter feed too?

[jjmcat]

Why not do both.I mostly let them filter feed but every now and then I give them some shrimp.

[muzz]

they eat up any shrimp i blow over them immediately, but the lower polyps dont seems to get the food. i know they filter feed also, but watching them eat is really cool.......... thanks for the reply.