Best Food for Chalice's

[Paulairduck]

Now that I have aquired a few chalice's

Alien eye
tubs alien eye
Pink chalice
sherbert chalice
want to be Bubble Gum chalice
and soon a watermelon chalice

what do you reccomend to feed them ?


Currently I dose 15 drops of Zeo Coral Vitalizer
6 Drops of Zeo Amino Acid
6 Drops of SPonge Power

And then regular feeding of flakes, pellets and occasional mysis shrimp for the fish.

[JR's Reef]

Ive feed mine and not feed them. I didnt see any diference in growth either way

[Paulairduck]

I have all my chalice in a 100 gallon frag/lagoon style tank

2 150 watt MH/ and 2 4 VHO actinic

My system is very clean running the BK skimmer (Mostly SPS)

I want to spot feed the chalices, but, the question is, "what is best stuff to feed them?"

[SS7]

I've fed a lot to chalice: cyclo, mysis, arctipods, etc.. they general seem to be hogs. I tend to see giant feeders out when the lights are off. They have no problem devouring large mysis.

[Paulairduck]

That's good to hear, thanks for the advice

[kev apsley]

I soak my mysis in AA's before I feed my Chalice's, I feel that it add's more proteins and building blocks for them, but I'm just weird like that ;)

[Ian]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13750043#post13750043 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kev apsley
I soak my mysis in AA's before I feed my Chalice's, I feel that it add's more proteins and building blocks for them, but I'm just weird like that ;)

Yeah you are!! :lol:

[oddballs]

H 20 frozen coral food seems to make all of my corals from dendrnepthea to chalices and acans to sps all happy. Just my 2 cents.

[Kigs]

If I'm dealing with small frags, I usually take a bowl filled with cyclopeeze and place the frags in there for a bit. With bigger colonies, I feed each mouth individually with PE mini mysis.

I dose Sponge Power too - awesome stuff...

[oddballs]

What is sponge power? And who makes it.

[jjmcat]

Its a zeovit additive.

[kev apsley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13752444#post13752444 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ian
Yeah you are!! :lol:


Yo man! you aren't the 1st to tell me that LOL!

[Paulairduck]

I have excellent results with zeo supplements, Full blown zeo was not for me.

Coralvitalizer, sponge power and there amino acids work great.

Does anybody know if you can even keep chalices in a full blown ZEO tank.

[Kigs]

Wasn't zeovit method developed specifically for SPS and based on low-nutrient environment? My LPS seem to flourish in med to high nutrient tank IME.

[AqUaCHiC]

When given the proper diet, how fast can you expect chalices to grow?

[Scythanith]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13754694#post13754694 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kigs
Wasn't zeovit method developed specifically for SPS and based on low-nutrient environment? My LPS seem to flourish in med to high nutrient tank IME.

Similar to my LPS, I skim light and feed heavy. I do plenty of water changes (~30-50% a month) to compensate and my levels all stay near perfect.

My smaller chalices get a mix of hikari mysis & cyclopeeze. The larger ones get PE mysis & cyclopeeze. I tried the zeovit AA's and I don't know if I'll use them again... don't know if there was much of a return. I feed in take about an hour after the lights go out on the tank. I can feed a second time in about 30-45min.

I find that just having the frag affixed to something solid so that it isn't being bumped around by hermits, etc and that there isn't a large space between the frag's growth edge and the plug it is growing on (use some reef putty to fill the gap) the chalice will grow fast.

Of course it depends on the chalice. My Bazooka Joe.... hella slow. But my JPM's Watermelon is about twice as fast as the BJ.

Hope it helps!