feeding LPS...

[WarDaddy]

I was at a LFS in Florida a few weeks back. I was talking to the owner about a beautiful Chalice he had, $80 for a 4"x6" beautiful piece, (I was on a tight budget, still kicking myself) any way, he was telling me he feeds the "mouths" of the chalice pellet food 2-3 times a week.

Well this has got me thinking, Blastos, Chalice, all the other LPS that "eat" larger foods, how would they like pellets?

NicoleC got me interested in a site and I saw this food:
http://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/store.cfm?d=3249&c=5277&p=27240&do=detail
GP Golden Pellet is a high performance diet augmented with highly unsaturated fatty acids for optimal growth.
This product is formulated for the exacting needs of commercial breeders. GP Golden Pellets are formulated as a complete diet, ideal for hand feeding cichlids and other aggressive eaters, as well as for demersal feeders such as shrimp and eel.
Great for both marine water and fresh water aquariums. Golden Pellet is a sinking pellet-type feed exhibiting excellent water stability.
Proximate analysis: Protein 47%, Fat 10.2%, Fiber 5.7%, Ash 11.9%, Moisture 6.8%
Ingredients: Krill meal, shark liver oil, molasses, white fish protein concentrate, fish protein hydrolysate, wheat flour, alginate, brewers yeast, Naturose, ascorbic acid (stabilized), vitamin and mineral premixes, cholesterol, lecithin, anti-oxidants.

Well on the outside that sounds like a great balanced diet for our larger mouthed LPS friends. What do you all think?

I am wanting to start a Blasto collection, and I think I will become addicted to Chalice, so what say you?

[BullDZR]

hmm, I would be interested in the answer to this as I just aquired my first acan. Tagging along for this one

[ri]

Hmmm... I've always fed my corals finely chopped meaty foods. However, I I have sen come granular foods fall and land on a coral. I guess I never pay attention as to what happens with the food.

Would be worth a try. However, even if it is eaten, I'm not sure it could/should be used all the time?

ri

[Javeo]

I have seen my sun corals, favia brains and yellow colonial anems eat pellets. Im sure if its a more carnivorous type pellet most corals will eat it.

[mschriskim]

Here is old link but good infos about feeding Acans but could be used for all LPS.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=506041

I mix frozen seafood (Shrimp, Fish, Dried Krill, Squid, Clams, Scallop, Mussel, Oyster ... ) and chop them (half frozen) fine than mix mysis, brine, Cyclopeeze, dried phyto, reef plus and frozen them again in ziplock.
(You could buy mixed frozen sea food from Asian market for vary low price)

Even my blastos wellsi putting babies out much better than just mysis itself. I have been using them for 2-3 months now (Before I just fed my LPS mysis mixed with Cyclopeeze).

[3S1K]

Mschriskim,when its time to feed what is your process?I would assume the food frozen would be in very large chunk.

[mschriskim]

I use those food chop machine (Not sure name of it) to chop them fine so most of food are in good size for LPS but yes there is some large chunk.

Here is how I feed.

I put a good size of frozen (Homemade) food to my tank water in bowl and once they are all melt I use a fine machine dropper (kids's madichine dropper) to put some in my tank - all powerhead and filters are still running. Wait 3-5min until I see most of my Acans and blastos and Dendros.... are ready (I could even see Blasto wellsi opening their mouth) to eat than I shut off filter and powerhead than start traget feed them. large chunk goes to brains, Dedros, Scolly and other med to small sized one.

Wait 10-15 min and turn powerhead
Wait about 10min and turn filter on.

I have 3 madicine dropper
1 - kid's madicine dropper (Use it to warm up my LPS and filter feeders)
2- cut little on front to get small to med size chuck for Acans, Micros, Yuma, Zoas, Favias, blastos....
3- cut little larger than 2 for Dendro, brain.....