Anyone have a Pagoda?

[Marco3995]

What do you feed a Pagoda? Is Cyclopezze to big of a food for it? Do you baste your tank in Rotifers. Or do you even feed your Pagoda at all?

Thats it for my slew of questions

 

[DJ88©]

[moved]

 

[yardboy]

I've had a nice fluorescent green pagoda (I'm assuming you are talking about Turbinaria peltata?) for over two years and have never fed it directly. But then, it hasn't grown by a huge amount either, but that's okay, I'd hate to try and frag it when it took over the tank.

 

[IslandCrow]

I'll be tagging along to this one. I have a pagoda as well and hadn't been feeding it (I've only had mine a few weeks). I target fed it some mysis a couple days ago (turned off my powerheads and squirted some onto the polyps), and it looked like they got eaten. Nothing was happening very quickly, so I didn't stick around, but the tang didn't seem to be messing with the mysis actually on the pagoda, and when I looked back in the tank 10 minutes later, they were gone. I have also noticed a little filter type sweeper that comes out of the center, so I'm guessing besides being photosynthetic they do some filter feeding as well.

 

[bkwudzjeep]

I have never directly fed mine and it has been doing pretty well. One thing I noticed with mine is that it doesn't like to be moved very much.....many polyps stay retracted and didn't look so hot, then after a week or so, it was fine.

yardboy: Can you frag a pagoda? (I never actually thought about it)

 

[IslandCrow]

You can frag anything. . .now, will it survive the process. That's the question.

 

[yardboy]

Calfo makes a joke about them in his "Coral Propagation Handbook" saying the worst thing that could happen if you dropped a pagoda on the floor is if it broke into only two pieces. He claims it heals quickly.
Similarly, I have an orange fungia frag, shaped like a piece of pie. Is it pretty? Well, no, but it is alive and thriving. Takes a long time to grow back out, so I think I'll stick with the fully formed pagoda I have.

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

Where is the best place to put these in a tank? Also will you damage them laying frags or the mother on rocks?

 

[yardboy]

Mind does not like full exposure to the 250W mh of the tank, it resides under an overhang where it gives full polyp extension. Not certain about rocks. Might depend on how aggressive the flow is.