Food for corals

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:24 am

They like good flow. They shed their skin & it needs to be blown away. Lighting is very easy for them, PCs are fine.

Troender · Post by **Troender** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:37 pm

I have to ask again: what food would you recommend for me to buy to them?

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:01 pm

Light is their only food. Look up how zooxanthellae works in corals.

Troender · Post by **Troender** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:45 pm

Aaaand...

...we have a hitchhiker! I found my first hitchhiker right now. This little guy was moving around in the tank.

Does anyone know what it is? It's about 1/2 inch. The shell has some stripes that's moving around the shell in a spiral. The dots you see in the pic is other stuff growing on it. You can see the stripes though. And it has a black "tongue" sticking out in one end.

There are other stuff I wonder about too. This green stuff has a pretty color. It looks a bit spongy.

Underneeth a rock I found several small things that looks like sacks of eggs. The pic is a bit infocused, but I think you can get the picture still.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 6:55 pm

Isn't LR cool??? The 2nd ones are both sponges (go figure) & the 1st is a nudibranch. Shell?

Troender · Post by **Troender** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:04 pm

Pufferpunk wrote:the 1st is a nudibranch. Shell?

Isn't the cone shaped thing it's carrying around a shell? It's even growing other stuff on it. I thought it maybe a snail of some kind.

I am still not giving up on the subject of food.

What about the feather dusters. Don't they need food?

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 7:10 pm

they are filter feeders & just feed off microscopic floating stuff in the water.

J-P · Post by **J-P** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:15 pm

http://coralmagazine.coverleaf.com/coral/20101112#pg87

that is a very good read

Post by **Corvus** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:44 am

The new #1 is not a nudibranch, but a snail. Possibly Engina mendicaria.

bigfatfish · Post by **bigfatfish** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:28 pm

Troender wrote:
Pufferpunk wrote:the 1st is a nudibranch. Shell?
Isn't the cone shaped thing it's carrying around a shell? It's even growing other stuff on it. I thought it maybe a snail of some kind.

I am still not giving up on the subject of food. What about the feather dusters. Don't they need food?

I have 2 giant feather dusters that I have had for about 6 months so far. I feed the tank daily with phytoplankton.

Troender · Post by **Troender** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:02 pm

I seem to have bought another coral today...

When I bought the LR on Thursday, I was drooling over a coral the guy had in his tank. Yesterday I saw he had the same thing for sale! I just couldn't let it go. It's a Zoanthus sp. "Japan". It's just beautiful! I will take a pic tomorrow, when it's acclimatized and it has started showing itself off properly.

xrayjeeper83 · Post by **xrayjeeper83** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:16 pm

haha this hobby is highly addictive no matter what way you go

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:34 pm

Jap zoas are almost impossible to keep alive. They are cooler, deepwater zoas.

J-P · Post by **J-P** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:24 am

and illegal to export. Any coral labeled "Japanese" is probably not "Japanese" but mislabeled to jack up the price.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:42 am

A couple of years ago, it was being sold as "live rock". What ever came along with it was legal.

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