Black Sun Coral
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dannyfromholland
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HI Rick
I have no particulate experience but I think that you can frag it but it won't help saving the others polyps. I think its better to let the coral in its original state (its easier to mount it on a good spot )and put it a light protected area to prevent algae on the dead skeleton. Then start feeding it reguarly. When the coral recovers you can frag it cut the dead spots away and put it were you want it.
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Danny Dame
I have no particulate experience but I think that you can frag it but it won't help saving the others polyps. I think its better to let the coral in its original state (its easier to mount it on a good spot )and put it a light protected area to prevent algae on the dead skeleton. Then start feeding it reguarly. When the coral recovers you can frag it cut the dead spots away and put it were you want it.
Cheers
Danny Dame
akindbro4u
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this may seem strange to you, but what i have done(or i should say my sleeper gobby) is bury the sun coral in a light layer of sand for about three days. When you take it out shake it well, and give it a day or two. After that you can try burying it again. I have found that this encourages them to expand there"skin", and the will regrow faster. Just my2cents.
Hesham
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Unless you see sign of some infection moving through the polyps, there is no need to frag.
I don't think I've ever seen an infected tubastrea - if anyone has pictures, please post. With acros, it typically is obvious when there is an infection (e.g. band moving up a branch) and then action is required to save the healthy branches.
I don't think I've ever seen an infected tubastrea - if anyone has pictures, please post. With acros, it typically is obvious when there is an infection (e.g. band moving up a branch) and then action is required to save the healthy branches.
I have a huge colony of the black suncoral and I will tell u that they are very diffrent from a reg: sun coral they must be fed daily each polyp if they branch and if it is a whole lump then just a couple of polyps getting food is ok. I have had sun coral orange and yellow very easy to keep now the black sun coral take TLC everyday. Now this is just what I have notice with my colony that I have had for a year or longer that I have fragged many many times. Hope this help I also feed cyclop eeze or mysis.
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Can you make a thread about your black coral care, progress, rate of growth, fragging, comparison with other suns, observations. Is it T. micrantha?
Would appreciate that: when I bought my T. diaphana (also black sun, but was expected to be trouble free) and it behaved very different, I panicked. Would like to be prepared for T. micrantha, if I'll find it. Others may like to see this information too.
Thanks.
Can you make a thread about your black coral care, progress, rate of growth, fragging, comparison with other suns, observations. Is it T. micrantha?
Would appreciate that: when I bought my T. diaphana (also black sun, but was expected to be trouble free) and it behaved very different, I panicked. Would like to be prepared for T. micrantha, if I'll find it. Others may like to see this information too.
Thanks.
MikePowell
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Qckwzrd
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just use a pliers and bread off the dead branches/ployps. Try to leave the coral in a bucket and in the water as you break the dead polyps off. "black" suncorals require way more care then the "reg" oranges and yellows. Much more food (frequently). IDK about placing the suncoral under the sand bed, heard if its placed on the sand bed and sand is injested its very difficult for them to expell it.
Avalon_Princess
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I was given a black sun froma nice LFS owner who new I'd had success with the orange suns in bringing it back to life. It's got probably ten polyps on it and they were hollow and jagged when I got it. two days and five feedings later its beginning to fill out though still no polyp extension.
Those of you with black sun corals, how much extra care do they need compared to orange suns? I picked the black sun coral up at the same time as a very much worse off orange sun but after five feedings its looking happier then the black sun coral and extending.
I have a large sun coral colony with 40-50 polyps, which is fed everyday I'm assuming the black sun coral would ahve similiar requirements? mounted in the shade or in a cave, fed every day with a range of meaty foods?
Oh and are they able to be trained to extend during the daytime? or are they more light sensitive then the orange suns?
There doesn't seem to be much info on the net about them, apart from their harder to care for then orange sun corals and have a lower survival rate.
Those of you with black sun corals, how much extra care do they need compared to orange suns? I picked the black sun coral up at the same time as a very much worse off orange sun but after five feedings its looking happier then the black sun coral and extending.
I have a large sun coral colony with 40-50 polyps, which is fed everyday I'm assuming the black sun coral would ahve similiar requirements? mounted in the shade or in a cave, fed every day with a range of meaty foods?
Oh and are they able to be trained to extend during the daytime? or are they more light sensitive then the orange suns?
There doesn't seem to be much info on the net about them, apart from their harder to care for then orange sun corals and have a lower survival rate.
Avalon_Princess:
Can you post pictures before and after?
Daily feedings of the meaty food mean a lot, my suns feel much better when fed this way.
I no longer feed every day, the growth is slower. But my T. diaphana opens each time after feeding fish and other corals, to pick what was left, during daytime, just like all the others. I have an impression, that this is more a matter of sensing food, that of training, with all of mine suns: pale orange, intense orange, yellow, yellow branching and black.
My T. diaphana was not more sensitive, than other suns, after it started eating, but this took a long time.
And it regenerated fast from the burn caused by hammer coral, while pale orange polyps died, where the branch of frogspawn landed.
Can you post pictures before and after?
Daily feedings of the meaty food mean a lot, my suns feel much better when fed this way.
I no longer feed every day, the growth is slower. But my T. diaphana opens each time after feeding fish and other corals, to pick what was left, during daytime, just like all the others. I have an impression, that this is more a matter of sensing food, that of training, with all of mine suns: pale orange, intense orange, yellow, yellow branching and black.
My T. diaphana was not more sensitive, than other suns, after it started eating, but this took a long time.
And it regenerated fast from the burn caused by hammer coral, while pale orange polyps died, where the branch of frogspawn landed.
Avalon_Princess
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This was taken when I bought it, its not much different, though its had like 8 feedings. I don't know where the food disappears to but within a few hours of feedings they lose their plump filled look and return to looking hollow, and their not regurgitating.
I'm trying feedings three times a day of meaty food just to get it back and healthy, or extending at the least, then I'll cut it back to once a day. But I can't until it begins extending as right now I have to remove it from the tank just to feed it.
I'm trying feedings three times a day of meaty food just to get it back and healthy, or extending at the least, then I'll cut it back to once a day. But I can't until it begins extending as right now I have to remove it from the tank just to feed it.
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