Feeding Corals Reef Roids - Will They Eat?

[@tidalgardens]

Thank you again to Polyp Lab for sponsoring this video. Have you tried feeding your reef tank Reef-Roids before? How did it go?

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[@tricktaylor]

I bought a $1 dying Duncan coral that was the size of a dime from my lfs. Later that evening in my home tank he ate a mysis shrimp that was almost bigger than it. It looked a snake swallowing a huge cat or something but it eventually got the whole thing down. I was impressed. Couple months later and ive never noticed it eating anything quite that large since but now theres 3 half dollar sized heads... corals are amazing.

[@reconnaissance7372]

I love how clean your store looks. Everything looks perfect. And the aluminium stands are so dreamy. We're moving shop soon and I hope we can employ a lot of the same techniques you have to give everything it's place and have it look aesthetic, neat and clean.

[@tidalgardens]

You can do it!

[@Jen_RS]

Regularly feed my Ricordia Yuma mushrooms with Vitalis LPS pellets. They move the pellets to their mouth and curl up around them, when they open again, the pellets are gone.

[@GwonkReefkeeping]

"Do The Onion Thing". I need that on a tee-shirt.🤣

[@executor485]

It's been over a year now and I would love to hear an update from your perspective again. Specifically regarding the corals you were talking about putting on a feeding regiment, longer pump off times, and the more recent additions you're expanding. Great info, thanks!

[@meghancampbell4005]

This is beautifully filmed.

[@Ricardo-dn3yn]

Hey Than! Excelent video. One of the best I've seen about feeding corals. The images speaks for themself. Greetings!!!

[@tidalgardens]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@zachary_smith1]

This is such great video. Info is top notch. Video looks amazing. Narrating excellent. This is art and science combined.

[@aaronjames994]

The snail at 7:30 lol

[@BlunderfulGuy]

A bunch of reef aquarium and coral videos ended up in my autoplay feed after watching videos about the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods, and maybe also from Bizarre Beasts or Journey Into the Microcosmos. I'm probably never going to have any kind of aquarium but now I really want to see more coral feeding timelapse videos set to narration and/or music.

[@truthhurts4948]

Than has a soothing, ASMR type voice. Great videos put out by Tidal Gardens. Check out videos of symbiotic relationships in corals, for example: Christmas tree rock worms, goby/shrimp and walking dendro. 👍

[@Reefahholic]

Epic! Footage is so high quality. 💯

[@emilymatthews1290]

This has come at a perfect time because I was questioning whether or not my corals a feeding some times its very obvious and some times not so much. Thanks for another great video

[@bopeep7806]

I feed my yumas aquaforest equivalent to reef roids and they multiply like crazy and always seem to puff up big when target fed then the mouth swells up then the yuma shrinks and then after 10mins it swells back up bigger than it was before feeding my yumas are about 5-7 inches across :)

[@ncoppens]

I feed zooplankton from Nyos. Watching the feeding response of corals is one of the most satisfying things for me. I definitely see a difference in growth on my Micromussa, Leptoseris, Lobophelia, Duncan and both Caulastrea's and Gorgonians. I don't feed my frogspawn and hammer. My Alien Antivenom zoa's actually snatch mysis shrimp from the water column.

[@DaPopeLP]

Hey, this is one area I can actually provide a point of view on! I keep mostly mushroom coral. I have few discosoma, few rhodactis, a st thomas mushroom, green frilly, FL ricordia and ricordia Yuma. In my experience, discosoma do not react to food at all. The rhodactis barely most thier skirt, but will funnel mysis into thier mouth. The FL ricordia do the exact same behavior. The Yuma will absolutely devour mysis. The Yuma, green frilly and st thomas mushroom will all close up completely around mysis, stay that way for around 15 min before opening back up. They will all then be thicker and more inflated. The St Thomas does this far more to the extreme, to the point I can clearly tell when it's time to feed. Interestingly the nearly dozen dime sized Yuma mushrooms do not respond to food at all.

[@geoffW1997]

Nice video. Lots of information on coral feeding.

[@ou812reefing]

Great information really helpful in understanding coral needs thanks Than looking forward to your next video

[@tidalgardens]

Glad it was helpful!

[@wcf93]

I have something similar to what you called the dragon soul favia. It was sold as a dragon soul goniastrea it’s just been sitting there with no signs of growth. Looks nice and puffy and happy. Randomly decided to feed it directly one day. The feeding response is phenomenal.

[@tidalgardens]

Feeding made all the difference when we started.

[@wcf93]

@@tidalgardens on the other hand my ricordea mushrooms are the opposite of what you see. Mine are pigs and eat anything they can grab. Both my floridas and my yumas. I just tried feeding them some reef roids and id post a pic if I could.

[@Ninja4200ful]

I found I got great response all round when I added amino Acids to the reef roids and other liquid nutrients and minerals to the reef roids. Helped with colour, growth and activity of the coral and anemones. I also increased the amount of phytoplankton I'd put in my tank of 3 different varieties. Helped increase the number copepod. Bit more effort to do those but more cost affective.

[@Ninja4200ful]

Agreed about the riccordea. Only thing I did was give them the amino acid directly over them with the pumps and fans off for a few minutes to give them time to absorb the nutrients.

[@MaccaWelland36]

Brilliant video. Thanks guys

[@reefingmanny7684]

Amazing video. I always look forward to watching your videos because of your awesome camera work. I look forward to updates on your Acro/SPS tank.

[@gppl77]

My yumas devour finely chopped raw shrimp. Goni react very well on RR. I've seen it opens and closes mouths and after feeding the tentacles looks significantly more inflated. But it doesn't consume all RR, if a polyp is closed it'll stay closed even with RR on it.

[@fragboxcorals]

amazing video, I literally had to get up half way through and go spot feed some reef roids

[@tidalgardens]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@jlewis3013]

Nice video. Interesting observation re Euphylia sp. , as you know, all corals have nematocysts - stinging organelles - within their nematocytes (found in tentacles); and ours grabs food (brine/mysis) when it passes over it. BUT, I have yet to see it stuff it into its mouth readily - similarly with Reef Roids. Ergo, looking for a solution too. Granted, nematocytes can have a defensive purpose but given that all corals have mouths, I guess the majority are for prey capture (or dual purpose). So, I haven’t (yet) figured out what Euphylia sp. (and other corals) are most happy eating Will try targeting very small doses of copepods, as zooplankton would seem to be good start point for an experiment? More to learn; more research to perform methinks. Great videography btw - kudos and thanks.

[@loose8881]

Great video. My rhodactus wrap up and eat everything. And I have some discos that do as well. A blue one especially. Still not convinced about hammers it’s hard to tell.

[@teagancombest6049]

Have a frag with 3 Small rhodactus, one shows feeding response and the other two don't. Weird.

[@spottingnature3123]

Beautiful time lapse movies ! Have you experimented with the time of day at which you feed? In nature most heterotrophic corals feed at night (in particular when they live in deeper areas and poorer water, maybe to compensate for a limited amount of zooxantellae activity, in both cases)

[@theGangstadude1]

I’ve had my yuma do quite well and I’ve seen it eat Asterina stars oddly enough it will reject anything else but I’ve seen it eat starfish naturally and melt them. It’s super interesting especially since I first thought it was the starfish eating the mushroom originally haha

[@Mdub3997]

Apparently, I've feeding my corals Reef Roids all wrong. I watched a video from a hobbiest that suggest your Reef Roids should have the consistency of toothpaste. I am not sure if they are benefitting from such a thick meal so as this. All my corals ( mushrooms, button polyps, clove polyps, mini carpets, rock anemones, rose bubbles) appear to accept this. Is this a correct method or should i merely dust the corals as you did in the video?

[@Waynerock77]

I have a feeling Goni’s enjoy more of an osmosis like food absorption through their skin and they prefer aminos more than anything else. That being said out of my 9 Goni’s and alve Roids gives a few that bobbing motion with the polyp that looks like it’s sucking food up. Just a hobbiest so who knows. I do know that my many types need to be fragged constantly due to growing too much so take that for what’s it’s worth. LRS nano, Roids, Bennepets powder and acropower are what I put into my tank. LRS for the fish daily and everything else usually weekly for the corals

[@poor_mansreef8908]

A mix of reef roids, brightwell L&S and bene reef is my go too. I do not target feed anything anymore.

[@johnpeterman132]

Do you have any NPS you could test on? I love gorgonians, so it would be interesting to see a time lapse on a few different types. Maybe clams too? You would think the roids would be a good supplement for them.

[@SB-cd2pn]

Have you tried feeding live phytoplankton with the other stuff you’re feeding? I used to breed them and fish would love them and same with the rocks almost like it was generating life in the rocks. Also our coral, it wouldn’t get bigger it more or less would make the color POP!

[@prokhk]

Have you tested feeding when the lights are off? I've heard that some corals tend to extend their feeding tentacles at night so maybe they would be more receptive then.

[@tidalgardens]

Most corals have a much more active feeding response at night. I am just not around my tanks in the evening, but for home hobbyists it could work nicely.

[@Tailhook369]

Any mushrooms and euphillia have had great success with fresh crab meat

[@alishabinner5709]

Cooked?

[@bluerider0988]

What a cool video. Thanks for doing this

[@tidalgardens]

Any time!

[@alorrick7546]

Hammers/Torches/Frogspawn Feeding which happen to by one of my first and most favorite coals actually respond stupid well in my tank to ANY food that comes within their grasps. Now I have found feeding heavily or more than 1once maybe 2x per week for these guys is well a recipe for disaster as they can rott from the inside out or worse hungry tank dwellers can pester them to death. So they generally are FED LAST and are only fed directly a small amount near their mouth which I have served to readily gulp nearly anything down but mysis shrimp with rotifers to make it more dense to sink seems to be their favorite. but only a TINY maybe 2 mysis per mouth and a small dab of roids.

[@jennanation6992]

Great video. i have never seen my pectinia eay but after I feed it its puffed up the next day so I assume that means its eating it! Never saw any difference in my chalice at all! My mushroom seem to be hit or miss Sometimes the close up around it other times they dont! Do sps eat? Can you feed a mix of zooplankton with reef roids? I used to do that but I am out and wondering if its worth buying more! I also dont like that it has to be refrigerated!

[@thegreek21]

What lights are you using as seen in this video?

[@ifly65]

Great videos again...the best in the world actually. How are you mixing your reef roids? How often do you feed? WWC broadcast feed why dont you like that method?

[@tidalgardens]

It takes more time to target feed but you don't have as much wasted. Food that is not consumed by coral feeds pests and elevates nutrients unnecessarily.

[@yuyu900726]

I am wondering if you feed reef roid to scoly? I find them to have good feeding response but sometime they just puke the food right back.

[@connerpeckham7426]

@8:50 you can see bristleworms on the bottom right hand side of the coral on the floor eating the reef roids. Could that be causing issues?

[@mdbssn]

For the soft coral at the end, I think there was some consumption - the bending over of the individual arms of a tentacle into the center is good indicator of feeding response in gorgonians too, but it doesn't seem to be consuming a ton of it. In discussions of keeping various NPS corals, it seems that the exact size of the particulate counts for a lot - especially corals without strong stings seem to need the right size of particle over any particular kind of food to get a feeding response. It may be worth doing a similar experiment with something like golden pearls which are available in a wide range of sizes but which are sold as individual size grades, and just seeing how certain kinds of polyps (maybe relatively small polyps like acros, montis, and gorgonians?) react to different sizes of effectively the same food.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

That makes sense - sounds like a form of niche differentiation

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

Thanks for sharing

[@christopherdebari1166]

I cant believe how high those lights are mounted above the tank.

[@cameronhawk4181]

Super cool video

[@tidalgardens]

Thanks!

[@pstiikkreefing8937]

All my different mushrooms love Myces shrimp but not when they are cold gotta wait for it to be the same temp as the water in tank

[@doctornutriexercise143]

Você tem o protocolo de reprodução dos clownfish?

[@tentaclejester1051]

My R. Yuma eats the occasional mysis. But whenever I feed with hatched baby brine they puff up nicely!

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

I only feed reef pulse at night in dark 1 HR after lights out they are totally different at night with all feeders out

[@SpoobyDooVillian]

My Sunkist bounce mushroom always onions up when feeding mysis and powder foods

[@eddyortiz8110]

Cool video they sure like this food .😊💜🐟

[@tidalgardens]

Yes they do

[@aaronfitz2892]

with my hammers im having the exact same problem as you, it wont eat my frozen mysis or anyother frozen type foods i offer it and then i tried reefroids with the same results. I Honestly wonder if they would just benifit more from dosing like phyto or sum along thoes lines.

[@pepelu99]

Excelent video!!! thank you

[@tidalgardens]

Glad you liked it!

[@vesawuoristo4162]

Thanks

[@raymenhuang5755]

Great video. When I feed reef roids I feel like half of them would be wasted and dissolved in water. Not sure if LPS pellets would be better.

[@tidalgardens]

To target feed any powdered food it helps to have all the flow off because even a little bit will blow it away.

[@cshyanmg7033]

Fauna Marin Did a greater job than Polyplab with their MIN S as a similar combination of Reef Roids and Polyp Booster. Min S trigger the feeding response immediately even with broadcast feeding which you can observe from mushroom and yumas. Also, When doing target feeding with MinS, I seen no reject by most of the corals. The best thing is that the coral colour improve very quickly when you do target feeding with MinS. Hence, Im quite satisfied with MinS than Reef Roids.

[@tidalgardens]

It has been a long time since I tried ultra min S. Sounds like you had some very positive experiences with it.

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@@tidalgardens INDEED👌🏻

[@Waynerock77]

I would love more than anything to sit for 30 minutes and watch my corals eat but unfortunately I’m too busy trying to fight back my dag gum skunk shrimp from stealing the food out of the Scoly‘s and the blasto‘s and everything else. I have such a love-hate relationship with him it is ridiculous I took my last one out and I said I would never do it again but then I really missed how much personality they can bring to a tank and got another one and here I am again complaining about it. Roids is such a great/horrible product. Great that it provides awesome nutrition and most every Coral will totally love it horrible and if you don’t know what you’re doing you can totally destroy your tank very quickly by overdosing. I will not run a tank without it though. Got to give you props for the full transparency of the sponsorship Than!! I have no problems, you get that money Boo! It’s when people try to hide it that I get upset and wind up never trusting them again. So awesome Than and SUPER respectful to all of us

[@alishabinner5709]

I had one of my my big frogspawns gulp an entire peice of krill that accidently found its way on it. It was slow but I watched it finish it. I tried target feeding it a krill maybe a week or two later and it completely ignored it. Corals can be picky 😂

[@andrewsdrmike]

Same experience with Euphylia

[@AlexanderMunoz-n7u]

There's definitely flow in the feeding clips though. All of the coral shown here will eat reef roads fine, if they can catch it.

[@joebeasley6746]

My Yuma's won't take regular food but they do eat Asterina Starfish

[@ifly65]

Your video work is awesome. Without spending over $1500.00 do you think I will be happy with the Canon C100? Im a pro shooter (stills). I love Canon L lenses. Would I be better off with a Sony mirror 4k? Thanks!

[@tidalgardens]

If you are ok with 1080p a C100 is great.

[@ifly65]

@@tidalgardens Thanks so much for the answers I really appreciate it. You RULE.

[@aonsu209]

I feed my ricordea yuma fauna marin LPS pellets, and is see great responses.

[@bthefountain]

Awesome video! I wonder if there’s a “too much” level of feeding. Not when the water gets dirty, but literally, the coral ate too much.

[@tidalgardens]

Some foods that are too rich can hurt a coral if overfed. A little bit of food goes a long way.

[@aaronyounger452]

I feed my ricordia Florida reef roids and he loves it

[@encrustingacro]

Did you know that the platygyras in the hobby are actually paragoniastrea?

[@chonnamajirapisitkul5292]

my yuma love frozen food tho, i put small amout of that then they do onion thing lol anyway Im not do that much on feeding now just want to let them do anything themselve tho

[@kiddt1999]

What about feeding scolys reef roids?

[@matmalette]

great choice just make the mix thicker and use a wide tip baster

[@kiddt1999]

@@matmalette yeah i need to do something, my scoly i have been having about a year has receded, still opens up at night but rarely when anyone is awake to feed it. I do work shift work and come in after 4am and feed it benereef powder mix sometimes but rarely.

[@matmalette]

@@kiddt1999 food won't be a solution for tissue recession. Try changing the flow most probably it's getting to much

[@kiddt1999]

@@matmalette it is in the middle where the overflow is. Not a high flow area. My tank is a bit over a year old, crazy how my acros are doing great but a few others aren’t.

[@alishabinner5709]

What's your phosphate and nitrates at? I have low phosphates and very low nitrates and mine is doing great. Or could be it doesn't like the lighting.

[@jordanm2984]

Feeding Yumas: For whatever reason (it could just be coincidence), Greenish variety Yumas have accepted my food more than reds, purples, oranges, etc. Tiny mysis and/or roids.

[@crtcustoms6140]

Yumas I had back in the day took brine shrimp when the flow was off.

[@AquariumPartners]

I need to be good has @phil !! Good job polypab..

[@tidalgardens]

Phil is good people.

[@adamdavis307]

Great video as always. my Yuma mushrooms will eat an elephant if I was to feed them one. no corals in my tank eat more than my Yuma's

[@tidalgardens]

That is awesome!

[@TheCluelessReefer]

Bubble corals go nuts for frozen food

[@skillz_311]

Please tell me how you keep your tank crystal clean

[@tidalgardens]

Snails and micro-organisms that break down food and fish waste into detritus goes a long way to keeping the water clean.

[@skillz_311]

@@tidalgardens which kind of snails do you recommend for 2 50 gallon frag tanks? I do weekly water changes, I have 4 sea slugs, skimmer, carbon reactor and filter socks and no matter what i'm constantly battling brown algaie. and to top it off....its a ULN system, I have to actually dose Neophos and NeoNitro....so it's not phosphates.

[@CrimsonArcturus]

@@skillz_311 Check your silicates?

[@lovinghusband1]

My frog spawn loved brine shrimp at night

[@jonathandodd9575]

My Yumas eat mysis but in small pieces

[@owenli7180]

Weirdly, the one Ricordea yuma I own happily eats Mysis, and basically behaves like the small anemone they are... I do live in Australia though, and yuma don't carry a reputation for being delicate down this way. No idea why.

[@tidalgardens]

A few others are saying theirs eat mysis as well. It's great you have some that eat because they can be a challenge.

[@SoyaWithMilk]

i feed my yumas some fish pellets and they go crazy

[@icazuchi]

Duncans love reef roids... as in F**K'n looooooovvvvveeeee them!

[@doctornutriexercise143]

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[@maxvan11]

Yuma wasting away? Try treating with cipro.

[@tidalgardens]

I am thinking about putting together a treatment tank where I can put a number of struggling corals in for a week and run an antibiotic regimen like cipro.

[@happychappy27]

I tried cipro on struggling torches. Made them so much worse.

[@jamessiverson6994]

I always avoid yumas that don't look aquacultured they always die for no reason.

[@tidalgardens]

Some others in the comments say theirs like to eat mysis. Perhaps worth a try?

[@patterdalezipsuzilil]

Reef roids waist of money reef pulse is same I don't use any feed fish and feed acans with pellets I use A and k+ now trace wow its like steroids

[@frenchreefer]

Great video. Wondering if you have any views on dusting SPS like acros or montis with a light blend of roids? I tried and it is hard to tell but it looked like they rejected it.

[@1GolfJones]

Try Benepets, my SPS takes it right up.

[@TreasureCorals]

@@1GolfJones how do you see it? polyps are extending and then coming back in with benepets powder on them? target feeding?

[@1GolfJones]

@@TreasureCorals I broadcast feed all my tanks, everything including my fish have a strong feeding response, tentacles out, mouths opens soon after the mix hits the water!

[@TreasureCorals]

@@1GolfJones which SPS corals do you see react?

[@1GolfJones]

@@TreasureCorals Most of my SPS is Acropora, I also have some Heliopora, and Pocillopa. They fluff up when the Benereef hits the water. If you're having trouble with SPS give them a little plankton once a week. Intagr8reef is a great product. You also might wanna check your par, ironically many times they're getting too much light.