Some wild Acans are sensitive to bright light at first. I would recommend placing it on the bottom of your aquarium at first. I'll have to report back - but given how the tank has done well with the mush-food I made last batch, I think I'll make a special one to make feeding my well-loved corals a bit easier. Next time, I'll probably make a `LPS target feeding' mini-batch too - all pieces just about the perfect size. but I prefer to avoid the smell at very least.īut it works for most things - and IMO if you made one of just target-feeding-appropriate size chunks. When making it last time - it was more like a frozen smoothie than fish food - the frozen/LFS-type food didn't have much time to degrade - if to melt.Ĭorals might eat semi-rotting food too. IMO as mentioned above, you don't want this stuff sitting unfrozen for long at all. You gotta keep a tight eye on what seafood you're buying, being sure it's not been soaked/`treated'.īut I'll make up a batch, put a thin layer in a ziploc which is frozen solid outside. I add mysis, cyclopseeze, and some other aquarium foods/vits/aa's. I work loosely based on Eric B's recipe - but it's nice as you can somewhat control particle size and IMO it's fairly cheap to do a batch. which is frozen for re-use - but that's the only time I like to let my food thaw. Normally in the middle of frigid winter, I will make up a batch of fish/coral `mush'. both mysis and my mush seem to work well.ĭo you mix up the food each time, or can you mix up a bunch in a small tupperware container and stick it in the fridge for a week? Seems like mysis to brine size pieces are readily accepted by these guys. Great thread, it's great to read advice from those much more experienced with Acan's than I am. I even had a probelm with the litttle live mysis shrimps, or what ever they are in our aquariums, trying to pull brine shimp out of the mouth of a polyp. My big colonies are large enough that only the shrimp can climb up and steal food. I would also feed a big chunk of krill to my one peppermint shrimp, so he would be busy for a while.īTW, if you can avoid putting these critters in your tanks with your acan frags, the better off you'll be. Starfish are worse, beacause they hang out under the frags, and only send their arms up to smother the frag and steal the food. Before, I would have to sit guard, and pull off any hermits that came close to my frags. With broadcast feeding, and basting, it keeps the critter ocupied. Also, with just target feeding, all the critters in the tank are looking for that piece of food that smells so good, and they didn't get any. I stopped feeding this way, mainly because I've got too many of them now. Where are they getting all this energy from to grow like this? I'll try to dig up a photo of babies making babies.Īs Jen does, I used to hand feed each large polyp with tongs a small piece of freeze dried krill. I've also seen a row of baby polyps, still very tiny, keep encrusting on the rock, and producing more baby polyps. After a while, the babies start looking like a polyp, and not just a clear blob. ![]() I continue to feed larger polyps, while the babies cannot accept food. Does this connection of nutrition eventually get broken? I'm not sure, but I don't think so. ![]() ![]() Now, since the bigger polyps are making the babys, and the babys continue to grow, even without light or food, they must be getting the energy to grow from the bigger mother polyps. I would feed these polyps, and they would get bigger, and produce a ring of baby polyps. I've grown out some frags that started with just a couple polyps. What I can do is give some of my experiences and my opinion. I'm not a Biologist, so I can't give you a definite answer. You've brought up a good question about the polyps having a sharing mechanisms. Some people soak their food with Selcon, and other products. But I know the cyclops are full of nutrition, and were already soaked in powders, and vitamins, and other things. I try to let some of the nutrition pass to the brine and mysis. Finding information is near impossible at this point.Īlthough you feed each polyp do they have a sharing mechanism underneath all that fluff or is each polyp on its own? I've been feeding at night but the GD snails and stars come and rob the smaller polyps.Īlso, my micromussa seems to be too small to grab the mysids before they float off. Randy what do you soak the food in? Sorry if it was already stated but this thread really needs some organization links on page one.
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