feeding sun coral

[futureeyedoc]

So in an uncharacteristic move for me, I bought something at the swap on Saturday that I knew very very little about - care wise, etc...

A nice , good sized Sun Coral Colony from the Louisiana Reef Club...

I've been reading up on what to feed it... most suggest mysis, sometimes cyclop-eeze, the guy from the Louisiana Reef Club even said to lay an entire piece of shrimp over the top of it....

So my question is, what exactly is the best way and food to feed it?
I seem to have gotten it used to opening up to feed somewhere around 9-11 at night, but I'm still really struggling to feed it - if I put small pieces of shrimp on it, I usually find it lying on the sandbed the next morning.... If I squirt mysis at it, a few heads get hit directly and grab one, but I'm probably only get like 5-10 out of 50-75 heads fed....most of the mysis again either just falls between the heads or right to the ground...

Anyone with a sun coral of your own or previous experience that can help me out????

thanks

 

[The0wn4g3]

First of all, Sun Coral are extremely tough. Typically, they can thrive off very small amounts of food. From my experiences, you don't need to feed each head. Just a squirt of mysis every few days should be plenty for them. If they are sucking the mysis down quick, they probably aren't hungry.

 

[lilmonster]

I found it best to take a small water bottle, cut the bottom off of it and put it over the coral.
(this helps keep it around the coral and keeps away any theives waiting to pounce on the food.)
Its also a good idea to make some extra holes for a little flow in case you leave it on too long.
I then make a mix of frozen mysis, reef nutritions Phyto-feast, Arcti-pods, and roti-feast.
Then I squirt this mixture into the bottle top and it grabs what it can,
the excess slowly flows out of the bottle into the main flow and feeds everything else in the tank.

 

[Ramses66]

the simplest way I have found is to take some flakes and mysis shrimp between your fingers, hold it down in the water right below and around the sun coral and squeeze the flakes until they liquify and "cloud-out" around the corals. They open beautifully. I bought some yellow and orange from LARC and they are beautiful and eating well. Try it!
That fish food I won, the litte micro pellets, stick to the tenacles wonderfully.