Alveopora

[Kurt03]

How often and what do you recommend feeding this coral? its been getting cyclopeeze which are fed to the tank along with dt oystereggs. Is it a must to spot feed?

The reason i posted this in the coral propagation section is cause i also would like to know how to frag it?
Thanks in advanced.

 

[jdieck]

I would not recommend fragging it until it is rather large, just get a saw and cut it.
Spot feeding is not necessary if you keep an environment more suitable for filter feeders, If you keep pristine water like for SPS corals then you need to spot feed it. Oyster egs and cyclo is OK, just go easy on them as you can easily spoil your water and send nitrates and phosphates trough the roof.

 

[Kurt03]

yea, its no where near ready to be fraged but wanted to know if i will need to be able to take it out of the tank so i know how to mount it

 

[jdieck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8567798#post8567798 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kurt03
yea, its no where near ready to be fraged but wanted to know if i will need to be able to take it out of the tank so i know how to mount it

Even with good growth (and they are very slow growers) it is unlikely it will attach so I would not worry much about not being able to move it in the future.
Just give it medium light and slow wavy flow.

 

[Kurt03]

how do they grow? do they expand there skeleton in a ball type? or grow out horizontally? I havent seen any pictures of big colonys.

 

[jdieck]

They usually grow out keeping a similar but larger shape of what they originally had, like inflating a balloon kind of thing.
Their sckeleton is very fragie close to the surface so try handling it from areas that do not have polyps.

 

[Kurt03]

ok, thanks a bunch