Can you over feed corals ?

[Lesely]

I am just wondering if you can actually overfeed your corals.
I use seachem reef plus & trace twice a week and Reef energy A & B twice a week.
I have noticed a few of my LPS corals starting to brown a little.
They have good polyp extension and good feeding response.
I have read that overfeeding causes the coral to gain more zooxanthellae cells that are brown in color.Can someone confirm this is true (as I only saw it on one site) ???
they still look healthy but are losing a bit of the bright color.
I run a low nutrient tank and was worried corals would not get enough to eat.

 

[mariobrothersleeve]

Correct. Brown would be a "high nutrient" issue. Get off that two part, your fish poop is plenty unless you have nps corals. If you run fishless, then use it. Stop buying gimmicks, and you knew I would post on this. :-)

 

[Lesely]

Correct. Brown would be a "high nutrient" issue. Get off that two part, your fish poop is plenty unless you have nps corals. If you run fishless, then use it. Stop buying gimmicks, and you knew I would post on this. :)

lol....i hear you. but while using nopox and having such low nitrate & phos levels they say corals can starve ?

 

[mariobrothersleeve]

If you get rid of the nopox, a nitrate and phosphate reducer the you can get rid of the reef energy, a nitrate and phosphate producer. Stop adding things, it will make it more simple.