Live Coral Food?

[blondetang]

I have a somewhat new tank, 6 months old, 350G and am populating it with many types of coral. I've got my dosing under control and using kalwasswer. It took some time to dial in the doses, but ALK and Ca are steady and at good levels.

Water parameters and lighting is also under control, and nitrates undetectable.

Two weeks ago at a frag swap, I picked up an orange, non photosynthetic coral, and was told it needs phytoplankton. Given phyto is about $10 in the LFS, and I really never know if the are alive, I started a phytoplankton culture and plan on dosing it directly into my DT.

Along with this, I am starting to culture Rotifers, amphipods, mysids, and copepods, and dose these into the DT. I want to get some mandarin gobies and know they usually on eat live copepods/amphipods.

I'm looking for advice, and specifically needing to know dosing rates, any experience, both good and bad...

Pics of both the sun coral fully opened and the non photosynthetic...Both in the same tank.

[Pife]

You don't need live food a sun coral.

[CStrickland]

I been feeding my sun coral blender mush like everybody else gets. Seems happy to get it, and I have 4 new heads since I got him last month. It's easy that way cause the fish don't try to steal from him as much as I feed them right before I give him dinner. I think the most important thing is to not let more than a couple days go by without some food, cause they'll stop extending to save energy, and it's a pita to get them back on track. And keep them free of sand, if it gets between the heads it can be trouble.
I learned a lot here: http://www.melevsreef.com/node/286

This is how I feed mine but usually not so messy, I had broke my turkey baster then.
http://youtu.be/VrNtzv2zErA