Feeding Yellow Polyps

[spjeff69]

Hello everyone,

I just bought some yellow polyps and I had read that they require supplmental feeding of zooplankton or brine shrimp. I had some brine shrimp and I tried to feed them using a turkey baster. None of the polyps accepted any of the shrimp.

any advice?

 

[eyebedam]

Try some cyclopeeze its what seems to work best for me.

 

[c_stowers]

I've never fed mine and they continue to take over my tank. I imagine supplemental feeding would help and in that case I think cyclopeeze would be best as eyebedam first said.

 

[gsusfreak]

wait, what?....you're supposed to feed those things?!?!?!?!?!?....lol

 

[SRT80]

I think they are actually talkin' bout sun coral or sun polyps not yellow polyps right? I may be wrong, I have yellow polyp in my tank that grows like weeds and don't feed them anything.

Steve

 

[spjeff69]

I got the information from LiveAquaria.com
Check it out:
http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=675&N=0
They contain the symbiotic algae zooxanthellae which provide some of their nutritional requirements. They must also have additional feedings of micro-plankton or brine shrimp given to each individual of the colony.

 

[Pickupman66]

I dont target feen any of my corals let alone my polyps. I do feed cyclopeze on a weekly to every other week basis to the entire tank. keeps my fish fat and sassy but has also contributed to some amazing growth in some corals.

 

[spjeff69]

Frozen or dry cyclopeeze?

 

[gottahaveaDori]

If you are talking about yellow sun cup corals, they do need to be fed--and each one individually, because they are actually separate little corals all bundled together, and they feed singly--not collectively. I can't discern if that is what you have, but eye-be-dam is right.

Start with swirling some cyclop-eez in the water and wait about 10-20 minutes. We use the frozen kind. This stimulates the sun cup corals to open up. Then, use a dropper or baster to feed each polyp as well as you can with the brine or mysis. They will only accept food if they are flowering.

Also, they don't like light--so try to keep them in a cave--and you will notice that they will open up when your lights are off. They are beautiful--and are worth the extra trouble. We only target feed them about once a week--they also like marine snow--and other micro liquid food like that--but you don't have to target feed that.