Chili Corals

Love 'em but have never kept 'em. I read food & the right flow are the keys to success. What are you going to feed them? Although no expert here, yours look healthy to me & the polyps are extending so that's good.

My LFS gets them frequently & puts them in a slow flow seahorse tank. They come in nice & extend their polyps but deflate, lose color & melt away after a few months. But they probably don't feed or feed the right stuff if they happen to think about it.

Am anxious to hear what others have say. Best of luck!
 
Feed them daily with foods such as rotifers, oyster eggs, various zooplankton, etc.
Phytoplankton is probably too small for them to eat. When feeding turn of your pumps so they can capture the food.
Dosing pumps and timers can automate this process.
 
feeding them reef roids, freeze dried cyclopeez, noticed polyps really not extending now - going to move this to an overhang in the rockwork.
 
Moved the coral to another part of the substrate with shading and getting great polyp extension. Noticed that if this coral is exposed to sunlight the body of the coral shrivels up.
 
chilli2.jpg
 
wow zephnyc thats great polyp extension

so far what i learned on these corals are

1) they absolutely need to be shaded - the coral tissue seem to react in lighting and shrivel up.

2) you need moderate flow to encourage polyp extension

3) polyps generally won't extend until the main lighting is out

I may try to rearrage the rockwork so that there is good sized overhang to put this coral.
 
Actually mine is very much near a 150W halide and receives much light. Its open almost every day during lights on as well as lights off.

chillitv.jpg
 
nice stuff colt - interesting from the polyp shape I think you and ZephNYC have something from the Nephthygogria genus. I think mine is actually a Alcyonium glomeratum (from viewing descriptions and pics on the internet).
 
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