Feeding corals?

[raydiative]

Decided to start a thread to showcase how you can feed your corals using a very low cost method...

Step 1:

Put the food into a small container..

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Step 2:

add some of the tank water...

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Step 3:

here's a syringe i use... most of them have the same size output nozzle..

I'm using the 5ml or 10ml one...

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Step 4:

Get a balloon Stick

You can go Mc and get it using the below 3 methods:

1) If you're a parent, say you want a balloon for your kid

2) Be thick skin and just ask for a balloon

3) Steal from a kid.. hahah.. jk~

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Step 5:

joint the balloon stick to the syringe like this...

not much force is required... you may like to super glue it too!

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Step 6:

use the balloon stick to stir the food and water to have an even distribution...

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Step 7:

suck the food and water up!

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Step 8:

feed the fishes first so that they will not steal from the corals...

the other advantage of feeding the fishes first is to allow the corals to "smell" the food and extend their tentacles out to eat..

my fishes are already trained to eat straight out from the balloon stick... hahaha

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Step 9:

once the fishes are happy from eating, feed the corals!!!

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Step 10:

Repeat Step 6, 7 & 9 till all the food is used up..

[raydiative]

viola! and this is how i do it...

[wilsontantw]

Brilliant! And I'm one of those who benefitted from your "balloon stick" method.

Super efficient and effective method. And my sea squirt is now idling in cabinet.

[wilsontantw]

Ding +1 for you.

[albinosage]

Simple but effective method, I should try that too.

Great recycling effort btw. A+++++

[mecedesfish]

Thank for sharing.

[TayHongSiang]

up one point for u...

[raydiative]

thank you thank you...

Wilson, your sea squirt damn difficult to use.. i end up taking your syringe to feed your corals during your trip.. haha

[wilsontantw]

You mean u actually tried using it?? Haha I gave up on that within 1 day. It's only good to be used to blow detritus off rocks. That is the only reason why I still hold on to it.

Next time I go macs, I'm going to tug my boy along, get free balloon sticks!!!

[raydiative]

Tug your boy?? dun think you can get any.. your boy to serious face liao.. lol

[wilsontantw]

What can I say, he takes after daddy. Anyway I know what makes him scream and yell, not difficult to "A" balloons from macs. Anyway, not to OT too much on a very useful thread. Good effort to help the community!

I gotta go find something to contribute too. Damn I feel useless now.

[yikai]

mega useful. i've pinned it up for you

[Goondoo]

What can I say, he takes after daddy. Anyway I know what makes him scream and yell, not difficult to "A" balloons from macs. Anyway, not to OT too much on a very useful thread. Good effort to help the community!

I gotta go find something to contribute too. Damn I feel useless now.

Cool, I got a few balloon sticks now.... in fact I already connected 2 together to feed my anemones on sand bed and tank pretty deep....

[tht79]

Thanks for sharing +1

[raydiative]

mega useful. i've pinned it up for you

OOOooo!! My first pinned thread!

[Goondoo]

OOOooo!! My first pinned thread!

Congrats!

OT a bit, what does +1 means?