Feeding your SPS zooplankton

[Achilles Tang]

Reef Acronyms - check here if you don't know what we're talking about.

[Joe_P]

I think a reason why I feel its good to feed your SPS corals zooplankton is because they are sensitive corals and a lot of their energy is used up for growth and should something happen to the coral affecting its health due to fighting off STN/RTN or to regenerate quickly to recover from physical damage... any help in supplementing their energy levels would be critical in living or dying.

Light & calcium alone may be enough to sustain SPS, but we should be looking for an edge over sustainability!

Of course, feeding SPS will also push your system to the edge if you have borderline equipment or a weak filtration system. Do invest in an oversized skimmer... I don't think there is such things as overskimming when it comes to SPS!

AT

If feedin GPs to SPS does help that much,

I'll be willing to give it a attempt....

Placed order for 5-50 and 50-100 microns GPs, think should be able to cater to a variety of SPS polyps.....

One major concern would be whether my filtration might be able to handle the nutrient overloads.... esp since GPs are purely protein stuff and such....

Besides skimming, do you do anything else to handle the heavier nutrient load ???

[Achilles Tang]

Water changes. Growing of macroalgae. Grow cyano to absorb it.

[Achilles Tang]

Guys, here's the information I found about the importance of feeding your SPS corals zooplankton/zooplankton substitutes!

This could also explain the phenomenal growth of my corals!