I'll check with a red light. I have a couple Pocillopora Coral. U really opened my eyes about the feeding habits of sps. I will start feeding nights sometimes. My LFS purchases fm various dealers as well as propagating his own. I will check with him. I know the guy is busy but u would think that he would have informed me about night feeding. Maybe he assumed I knew. I don't know
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cmor1701d
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Your lfs may not know either. It takes thumbing through a lot of sciantific journals and posts araound the net to find the morsels.
Yes, I'm sure ur right. He's pretty knowledgeable and I'm anxious to get his take on it. I can't wait to check my corals with a red light, which isn't going to happen for a few hours. Whether its open at night or not, this info. U provided will help with any future sps purchases I make. Appreciated!
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water_man11
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The tank cleared up and wc completed. No change in ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates.
cmor1701d
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Ask your lfs how often he has looked at his corals an hour after lights out? 
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I will be asking the people I trade frags with, the same.
I will b talking to my LFS about this. The day I bought my SPS he was kinda busy. He probably assumed I knew what I was doing. Most people know what they're doing when they start buying SPS corals. The more difficult corals to keep. I'm reasonably sure he just overlooked this. He was giving me so much other advice, it just didn't get brought up. So apparently my polyps remain open 24 - 7. But they extend further at night so as to achieve more filtering of the water. This last part I read I read online. This has been an excellent thread. Thanks
carey
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Am I a bad reefkeeper? I have never fed my corals other than my duncans on ocassion. I have never considered feeding my sps, I kinda just let them do their thing.
No Carey. Feeding isn't a necessity. Especially when u have fish. But I don't have fish so the tank isn't getting any other food. Except for what breaks down after my CUC does it's job. My corals seem to b doing well with what few drops of oyster feast I add weekly. They would probably b fine if I added nothing at all
