喂食珊瑚是礁石环境中所有无脊椎动物的护理的最重要方面之一，但这并不像掉落某些薄片或某些颗粒那样容易。大多数珊瑚食品是干食品碎片的颗粒，冷冻干phyto和浮游动物，所有这些都需要一些时间来补充水分，否则它们只会漂浮在水面上并溢出到我们的污水池中所有过滤器。
The typical method of feeding coral food involves soaking them in tank water for ten minutes to an hour making it a little bit more of a hassle than we’d like, but we’ve developed a system to streamline this process in order to feed more tanks and faster. Instead of soaking coral food every time we want to feed our corals we make up a big one liter batch using tank water and a whole range of popular aquarium foods.
混色是混合使用电磁搅拌器for a half an hour to thoroughly hydrate Reef Roids, several different formulas of Reef Blizzard, and any number of additional coral foods we might be trying out in our recipe. This large batch mixture is then added to silicone ice cube trays and frozen so that it is ready to use at a moment’s notice – this method might be a little more effort up front but it saves a lot of time in not having to soak the coral food every night that we plan to feed.
Freezing rehydrated coral food is not exactly the same as feeding actual ‘frozen food’ like we do with our fish, but the freezing process imparts some degree of mechanical breakdown to the food particles which we believe helps to make them more digestible for our aquarium corals. One fun trick that we like to do using our cubes of frozen rehydrated coral foods is to place it on the mesh screen top right above the outflow of the return pumps so that it can be evenly dispersed as the cube slowly dissolves.
One of the questions we get asked about reef keeping is what we feed but we believe it’s much more important如何您的喂食是因为我们试图在水箱中重新创建一种永远无法与自然界持续食品供应相匹配的喂养条件。要经历将干珊瑚食品转变为准备使用冷冻立方体的所有麻烦可能有点过高，但是喂食珊瑚是我们一直喜欢的水族馆爱好的一部分，这种方法对我们来说已经足够好了，我们认为我们认为值得分享。
