Do Soft Coral need Food?

[Grymatta]

I was wondering..do soft corals like zoos and polyps need food besides light?
I saw some product called Marine Snow..its a zooplankton in liquid sollution. Do I need that if I want to raise softies?

 

[wayne]

Yes. We answered this 2 or 3 days ago, the best place to start is http://www.wetwebmedia.com/shroomfdgfaqs.htm and http://www.wetwebmedia.com/zoanthidfdgfaqs.htm. Variously sized foods depending on species, my zo's are very keen on cyclopeeze, my mushrooms on flake bizarrely

IS that a Marc Weiss product. He has sold that company to his now exwife, who probably doesn't care about the opinion they're complete junk

 

[Grymatta]

thanks Wayne. I must have missed that thread..

Marc Weiss..? I'm not sure. I saw MArine Snow mentioned in the Dr Foster SMith catalog. Its supposed to be a good filter type food and requires refrigeration after its opened..

 

[wayne]

Well the fact it needs refrigerating is good, but it's always tough to know if you're feeding the right size particle. But frankly I wouldn't really count either of these groups as classic filter feeders, though my zo's seem to enjoy cyclopeeze freexe dried zooplznkton

 

[Grymatta]

hmmm thanks wayne. I never thought that corals would need food cause the books i read say that they use photosynthesis as their food source. Good thing I asked!

Maybe I will get the Cyclopeeze instead of Marine Snow since no one else has mentioned using Marine Snow before. Does cyclopeeze require refrigeration? thats the stuff that comes in red packets right? and how do you feed it..some sorta dropper?

 

[aresgod]

yea it needs to be frozen, and I use a turkey baster.

 

[supahtim]

that's a good choice. i used marine snow before, but i have a lot better results now with cyclopeeze. although i have powdered cyclopeeze.

Tim

 

[JCS11236]

what do u guys think about feeding Phytoplex liquid food to yellow polyps? liquid food in combination with good lighting is enough for theses little guys to live well in my tank?

 

[JCS11236]

what is cyclopeeze? i seen that in my pet store put it is flake food--do they make it in liquid form as well??

 

[Grymatta]

how do you feed cyclopeeze in powder form to corals? do you need to mix it in saltwater first?