badbread
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The other night I was feeding both of my tanks. I go to feed my 14g frag tank which has a clown, bi-color blenny cleaner shrimp, and 6 line in it and it's the usual; I distract the fish with a frozen chunk of mysis and then quickly turkey baste some defrosted mysis/cyclopeeze/oyster feast onto the acan frags, and a few paly's. As always one fish or the fat shit cleaner shrimp see this and immediately come over and thrash away. Whatever, I'm use to it and move on.
On to the 28G display now. I just picked up a huge pink/purple/green yuma colony and seeing that I had shit success with the last yuma I had (months ago when I first started) I want to make sure I really take care of these. No fish in this tank yet. So I defrost a nice concoction of mysis/cyclopeeze/oyster eggs and turn off all flow, the usual.
It was so nice, I was able to baste a few piece of mysis directly on top of each yuma mouth without any disturbance. One Yuma took about 15 minutes to grab it, but given time(which is non existent in my other tank) it finally ate. I was able to target feed each acan head that didn't get any food during the mysis blast and even was able target feed every head on the favia like thing from serg last meeting. That favia like thing took about 15 minutes to finally grab and eat the food but it did it. It was really really nice. I just sat there in my little chair staring at all the little happy coral fingers and mouths coming out, slowly grabbing the food, etc... (BTW, Acan fingers/tentacles are amazingly sticky and strong, a single head grabbed onto my feeding stick so tight I nearly pulled the rock off trying to make it let go)
Anywho, anyone else have a fishless tank? I still want to get a Jawfish at some point. Jawfish owners, would the jawfish stick pretty close to his burrow once fed and not go out and steal food from every coral I am target feeding?
On to the 28G display now. I just picked up a huge pink/purple/green yuma colony and seeing that I had shit success with the last yuma I had (months ago when I first started) I want to make sure I really take care of these. No fish in this tank yet. So I defrost a nice concoction of mysis/cyclopeeze/oyster eggs and turn off all flow, the usual.
It was so nice, I was able to baste a few piece of mysis directly on top of each yuma mouth without any disturbance. One Yuma took about 15 minutes to grab it, but given time(which is non existent in my other tank) it finally ate. I was able to target feed each acan head that didn't get any food during the mysis blast and even was able target feed every head on the favia like thing from serg last meeting. That favia like thing took about 15 minutes to finally grab and eat the food but it did it. It was really really nice. I just sat there in my little chair staring at all the little happy coral fingers and mouths coming out, slowly grabbing the food, etc... (BTW, Acan fingers/tentacles are amazingly sticky and strong, a single head grabbed onto my feeding stick so tight I nearly pulled the rock off trying to make it let go)
Anywho, anyone else have a fishless tank? I still want to get a Jawfish at some point. Jawfish owners, would the jawfish stick pretty close to his burrow once fed and not go out and steal food from every coral I am target feeding?
), so almost fishless. My wrasse was a PITA when it came to spot feeding LPS. The easy solution, was to feed the wrasse first. I add actipods and he fills up on those. The corals eat those too and it triggers the feeding response of my LPS (they open up and instantly grab food). Then I can spot feed without the wrasse stealing food.
