ColleeninFL
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So here it is, our Black Sun. Between this one and the orange I have lost count of the many mouths to feed. Any other of these beauties out there?
Black Sun Coral
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TCU Reefer
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Those suns will definitely keep you busy. Thanks for the pics!
RichardinFL
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Wow, amazing. Thats beautiful, almost as nice as it is in our tank 
Sad that I am on Reef Central looking at pictures of our own corals huh?
Rich (of Colleen & Rich)
Sad that I am on Reef Central looking at pictures of our own corals huh?Rich (of Colleen & Rich)
ColleeninFL
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We call our orang the pigestraria, it would eat all night long if I would stand there and feed it.
ColleeninFL
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The orange is beyond beautiful. This one (the picture does not do it justice) seems to be growing and growing. There are some tentacles that are almost as long and flowing now as the orange. Did I misunderstand, you have a black with one orange head? If that is the case please post a pic I would love to see that.
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vthondaboi
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Here's mine:
And a yellow one:
And a yellow one:
Brooks_McClary
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How much do you guys feed your Sun Corals? I am nursing one back to health and each polyp will eat 2 or 3 mysis or plankton and still look for more!!!!
its near the bottom and small so its not as noticable. will take a pic when i can, no camera at the moment 
ColleeninFL
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Wow, very nice Javeo.
Vthon, those are sweet too.
Yanno, with as many mouths as there are to feed in the one tank, I have never though about how much I feed them. Hmmm .........nope not going to start counting now. I spend a good hour or more with them every other night.
Vthon, those are sweet too.
Yanno, with as many mouths as there are to feed in the one tank, I have never though about how much I feed them. Hmmm .........nope not going to start counting now. I spend a good hour or more with them every other night.
Large Polyp Dave
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i've always wanted one... but man....how do you guys have time to feed every mouth =)
The polyps are all connected on mine so I only feed 1-2 mouths with large pieces of krill every other day. At first I was worried that they might not share but I was also worried about overfeeding in my small tank. So far they open up every night (for the past two months) and are growing so it's not too difficult.
Javeo
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The polyps may be connected by flesh but they do not share the nutrition. the other polyps may be eating bits that fall away but as they have a very low metabolic requirement, corals take a long time to starve to death. Suffice to say feeding a few head will, in the long run, lead to the others dying off.
Javeo
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I think they way alot of coral grow is that a part of the flesh will give rise to a new polyp or colony and give it nutrition for awhile before breaking away. the tiny ones can probably subsist on planktors and maybe bacteria and the like.
Why dont you take the entire colony out and feed it seperately?
look at mine in the gallary, fed every other day, all the mouths eat.
Why dont you take the entire colony out and feed it seperately?
look at mine in the gallary, fed every other day, all the mouths eat.
ColleeninFL
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Here is the yellow sun at the backside of dinner time. The babies eat as much (at least it seems like they do) as the bigger polyps. I don't take ours out of the tank I use a baster 4 nights and then there is one night that I will actually hand feed each polyp on both the yellow and the black. Time consuming yes, but stress relief and entertaining for me. They always win at the tug of war and open back up as quickly as possible for more.
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