Alveopora Feeding Reaction (Video)

[ssick92]

Hey everyone,

So it has now been a couple months since I got my Alveopora and a few things have happened to it, and I just wanted to give everyone an update.

Well, I had to leave my tank for about 3 weeks and nobody was there to watch it. While I was gone, my Tiger Pistol Shrimp managed to dig his way under my Alveopora and knock it over. I have no idea how long it was laying on its side, but half of the Alveopora looked pretty bad when I got home. Half of it was buried in the sand (thanks to my pistol), but the other half seemed perfectly healthy. The half that was buried in the sand turned mostly all white, exposing nearly all of the skeleton on that side.

I have since moved it to the other side of my tank, which should keep it out of harm's way. I have always been intrigued with these corals, mostly because people claim they are so hard to keep. Well, it has now been 3 weeks since I got back home, and as you can see, the left half of it is starting to grow back and get some more color again. I believe these are signs of a "healthy" alveopora. Most of the tissue has grown back over the skeleton, so I can't even see the skeleton anymore. I turn off my pumps and spot feed my Alveopora and Crocea Clam almost daily with a mix of Phyto Feast and Oyster Feast.

I have been looking for a video of a healthy Alveopora feeding reaction to see if mine reacts the same, but I have been unable to find one. Thus, I made one.

The following video is me target feeding my Alveopora and the feeding reaction that occurs. The 2nd half of the video is just me feeding my whole tank.
*Disclaimer - That is not my Yellow Tang. It was being bullied in my brother's tank and so we moved it to mine temporarily (no more than a week), to let him catch the predator in his tank.

Alveopora Feeding Reaction

 

[ssick92]

Anyone know if that is a normal feeding reaction?

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[geaux xman]

what is it that you're feeding it? that would be very bizarre if it retracts like that
every time.

from what I read on here, aleo are easy to keep and its the goiopora's that
are difficult to keep long term.

i have an aleo for maybe 3 months and i dont bother feeding it all. seems to be
thriving for me.

 

[ssick92]

I feed it a mix of Phyto Feast and Oyster Feast every other day. I was told that a healthy feeding reaction would be a sporadic retraction of all the tentacles followed by strong coloration, whereas a stress reaction would bring all the tentacles in all at once.

I just haven't seen any videos of an alveopora eating so I wasn't sure.

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[goettner]

very nice vidio there.I just want to say,I own 3 different Alveoporas and glued all off them on a rock.Even though I starved my tank for a while(algea problems) my alveoporas did very well even when I did not feed them.The only time I did have problem with my first one was when my salinity went up to 1.027 ( by mistake).It totally withdrew and I thought it was dead.I am glad I put it in a very quiet spot and forgot about it.Guess what,it came back again and looks ok.

 

[FY]

Nice video. Mine does the samething when I feed. No worries.

Curious, who did the music?

 

[ssick92]

Nice video. Mine does the samething when I feed. No worries.

Curious, who did the music?

The music is off Zac Brown Band's album Uncaged. The song is called Island Song.

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