Trick to feeding LPS mysis?

[Altohombre]

How do you all do it? I have tried to put my turkey baster down in the tank and release right next to it but the mysis just flies upward from the koralia stream. Should I turn my flow off? Is there a different thing to use other than a turkey baster?

 

[reeffreak]

Alto,you remind me of somebody(Biff you know).

Yes,turn off all the pumps.I use a Kent sea squirt,never have to get my hands wet.

 

[yote]

I usually just use my feeding tongs to place the mysis onto the coral.

 

[Bifferwine]

Either use tweezers or tongs to place the food directly on the mouth of the coral, or turn off the powerheads so they can grab it themselves.

 

[Oscarsdad608]

I turn off my power heads and use a large syringe.

 

[Altohombre]

seems like turning off the powerheads is the consensus. Gonna give it a go

 

[Altohombre]

It worked! Thanks

 

[Oscarsdad608]

Good, I am glad. I love to feed my LPS.

 

[Altohombre]

how often should I do this?

 

[reeffreak]

Depends Alto,what do you have?

 

[hibye]

Can you feed hammer coral like this? what about closed brain?

 

[Altohombre]

I have a torch, candy canes, hammer coral, ricordia, and duncan.

 

[reeffreak]

Can you feed hammer coral like this? what about closed brain?

Yes......

 

[reeffreak]

I have a torch, candy canes, hammer coral, ricordia, and duncan.

I feed my torch,candy cane and duncans twice a week.I don't feed the hammer and I don't have any rics.The only coral that absolutely needs to be fed is the duncans.Torches to me are more difficult than frogspawns and hammers so I make sure it gets a meal.

 

[Altohombre]

yeah my torch has severely declined from a crazy huge torch to it barely coming out from the stalk. I have tried different water flows and everything.

 

[reeffreak]

I honestly do not believe a torch will live long term without some kind of feeding.This is the best I've done with a torch so far-over two years now.I've been feeding it a mixture of freeze dried cyclopeeze,reef roids and small mysis....it has been doing great!Going from two heads to about 10.