How often can I feed my mushroom coral

[Coral king]

I have a mushroo coral about 2in acrost when it is happy i would like to feed it to increase growth Can I feed it to much and hurt the shroom

[jelly]

I wouldn't feed it.. it can lead to nutrient problems

[Rslinger]

Only food it needs is light!!

[Coral king]

If all it needs is light why does it Inhail (compared to my other corals )my palet food.

Why does it even have a mouth

[Coral king]

As far as nutrient problems bring it on (not enough nitrates as it is to keep xania happy

[Rslinger]

I guess most of us are trying to keep 0 nitarte anyway. Your coral will catch random food of its own floating around your tank. With strong enough light it doesn't require more food. Little bits of left over fish feeding, fish poop, what ever other micro org. might be floating around will do the job. I do feed my lps twice a month or so. I have never feed a softy. Any mushrooms grow like crazy in my tank. I catch free floaters and toss them out lol. What kinda of light do you run? Usually when mushrooms get huge it means they are trying to take in more light.

[jelly]

corals never need to be fed they will get most of there from the light like said.. they have a type of bacteria in them that gives them the color and feeds them.. 95% of the food they need is from the light and the other 5% is from what they catch in the water free floating.. if you only keep softies then nitrates wont hurt it to much but if your keeping lps and sps you will start to have issues. take the advise as you want but becareful with the nitrates.. they will give you an aglae out break and that can kill your tank if it over takes it and your LR will suck up nitrates and phos making the problem harder to fix..

[Coral king]

I Run marine land reef capable lights with timer integrated. I could post pics but don't know how besides posting a link

[Socratic Monologue]

Here's a good starter article on feeding (of both corals and corallimorphs such as mushrooms) by Sanjay Joshi:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sbj4/aquari ... eeding.htm

Searching the better online magazines (Advanced Aquarist, Reefkeeping.com) will give you some decent articles to read, too. If you can find articles by Ron Shimek, he has been an advocate for increased understanding of the nutritional needs of both individual corals and the coral reef generally.

Eric Borneman's book Aquarium Corals has a good chapter on feeding; if you don't already have the book, it is well worth the cover price. Coral magazine also runs occasional high quality articles on feeding, and is also well worth the subscription price.