We can sometimes forget that corals are living animals which have a mouth and digestive system, and therefore need to eat. While the first step in keeping corals alive and healthy is a properly lit and flowed tank, feeding is a great way to keep your corals happy and growing.
All corals eat, that’s why each coral polyp has a mouth, and although there are a few exceptions to the rule like soft corals and xenia which are able to absorb dissolved organic compounds from the water, all your stony corals will be happier when they are fed. The mouth sizes for each polyp is relative to the body size of the polyp and this size will more or less determine the particle size a coral can eat. We have found that even the smallest of SPS polyps, evenAnacropora会接受食物。
水族馆的业余爱好者有几种珊瑚食品，我们通常将一些具有不同颗粒大小的混合，并将其靶向给我们的所有珊瑚。我们已经成功地喂养了所有的珊瑚，找到了我们的Echinophyllia（圣杯珊瑚）Montiporas,AcroporasespeciallyA. Milleporaamong others respond well to feeding.
This recipe is by no means set in stone, and we are using this recipe to feed several large raceways of corals and have the quantities scaled up. The best we can recommend for feeding is combining a few different foods together, soaking them in water for at least 10 minutes and then target feeding your corals with a baster or coral feeding pipet. Some of our favorite ingredients for the best all-around food for our mix to be the Reef Roids from Polyp Lab, New Wave Copepods and the Frozen Coral Food cubes; these three ingredients would be a good start to your feeding.
When you are feeding your corals you will want to turn off the flow in your tank and gently target each coral. We like to feed our corals at the end of the day when the lights are still on their daytime light setting. You can even try broadcasting some food in the tank before you target feed as a “dinner bell” for your corals, or try息肉实验室珊瑚礁助推器as a way to prepare your corals to feed.
我们建议每周几次喂珊瑚。经过几天的喂养后，您的珊瑚应该更快地回应您的晚餐铃，并看着所有人，更加充满活力。我们在2-3周之后注意到的一些好处包括更多的息肉延伸，蓬松的身体组织，更丰富多彩，生长增加（与未注明的珊瑚相比）。
As a way to test out some feeding methods and additional supplements we have been power feeding some NPS corals and have definitely seen more polyp emerging during daytime feeding, greater polyp extension with more color and size. Our corals like food, so we think yours will too!
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