Feeding Soft Corals in a Reef Tank

Feeding Soft Corals

Soft corals are either non-photosynthetic and must acquire all their food from surrounding saltwater or photosynthetic which obtain their food in many ways. One way is through symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) living in the tissue of coral polyps. Through photosynthesis, zooxanthellae creates nutrients for itself and its host coral. Soft corals also obtain food by actively … Read more