How to prevent the fishes from stealing food when feeding Coral?

[NickleCheese]

I have fishes and cleaner shrimps that eat like Pigs. Whenever I put food on my acantho / torch / scoly, these pigs come and eat it
I love watching Acantho and Scoly feeding response, but those fishes fking annoying. Do you guys have any tip?

Thank you,

 

[Not an IT guy]

If you have a small clear soufflé cup that fits over your coral that should work small opening on the top to drop food in

 

[joseserrano]

You have to encase the coral. Otherwise you can try and just broadcast feed and hope corals get some

 

[Flame_Angle]

Feed the fishes first...then corals

 

[Coralsgrow2slow]

If you have a bigger tank it’s a little easier to distract the fish, I always just throw food on one side (opposite of coral I’m trying to feed), then quickly feed it with a turkey baster and then go back and feed the fish. It does get hard tho since my wrasses have learned my tricks , so I also just push them out of the way when they get near the corals

 

[tangreefkeeper]

how many times a day are you feeding your fish and what type of fish do you have

i feed my tank 2-3 times a day then drop food for the coral in the evening once the lights go through dusk setting

 

[drexel]

Feed corals at night when they're looking for food. Otherwise, I don't think it's necessary to feed photosynthetic corals if you have fish and are feeding them throughout the day. Certain LPS can benefit from feeding once or twice a week, but I've never been one to go out of my way to feed them. I also feed about 6 times a day minimum.

 

[Brady4000]

Spearing mantis shrimp or accept it lol.

feed the coral something like AB+, fish can’t eat that

 

[Tangwich]

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[NickleCheese]

thanks everyone, i'm gonna feed at night and forget it . Another question is when fishes come to steal the food on the body of acantho, is it gonna damage the tissue? I have a beautiful acantho, don't want it to get much stress / infected.

 

[Kobin]

I like to feed my corals at night. My wrasses are pigs and are sound asleep in the sandbed when I do feed my corals. In my experience, fish that have eaten close to coral or the food on coral usually don't nip on the coral when trying to get the food