feeding methods

[Anonymous]

But back to the discussion concerning the soda bottle thingie, I guess it's just a 'button' of
mine, one that I just can't understand the point of. I have been feeding my corals by hand
since I started in this hobby and I just can't see the benefits of this 'method'. The feeding
by hand brings me closer [literally] to my corals and I can actually determine what and
how much they can feed as I do it. The CSB is a bit indeterminate in my opinion since
you really don't know what was taken until you remove the thing [and any excess is lost
in the system]

Try carefully feeding evey polyp on a tubastrea with cleaner shrimp in the tank and you'll quickly understand why the soda bottle method is pretty much necessary to adequately feed the coral in this setting...

 

[nigle]

The CSB is a bit indeterminate in my opinion since
you really don't know what was taken until you remove the thing [and any excess is lost
in the system]

The fish should clean up and excess. And again you think it is easy to feed hundreds of zoas, if thats is your intention? What about SOmeone who has many colonys of hundreds of polyps but wants to feed? You would still tell them do it one polyp at a time? Most people I know would want their hand in the tank for that long and don't have hours to spend feeding one piece of mysis at a time to hundreds of polyps. It isn't needed. There are faster better ways to do things.

Now if all I had was one tubestrea and it had 24 polyps I could agree that this would be a fine way to feed and prevent any waste. Hope there isnt any hungry shrimp in the tank though, a guess a CSB would have kept the shrimp off the coral......

JMO

Oi!

Well to answer you, I had about 25 colonys Black/orange/pink and others I don't know how to describe, mostly gone now due to a 4 day electrical poweroutage, killed a lot of others too but it was a real shame with the Tubastera. It has come back somewhat as polyps all over the rocks in areas that I cant get to. To answer your question, it took up to 2 hours when I had a lot going to actually feed all the coral. So when you ask how would you do it with a lot of colonies, the answer is the same as I mentioned above in all my other posts, you hand feed them and yes it took some time, but if you can't feed em don't breed em.

Cheers!
nigle
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