First time with sun corals...

[nanomania]

Im planning on buying a small frag of sun coral, i have cyclopeeze and bottled planktonic coral food which has rotifers too.. can i soak the cyclop flakes in coral food and feed it to sun corals? is twice a week feeding is ok? i cant get frozen mysis coz the shipping from singapore is too expensive since the have to do another kind of packaging and shipping is also the fastest so really expensive (5 time the cost)...... please help....

 

[ADDH2O]

Hello I've had a 6" colony of sun coral for about 6 months now and it is doing great. I actually don't spot feed mine other than once a month, and it is doing better than almost all of my friends sun corals who get spot fed twice a week. I have it on the sandbed of a 37gal tall tank and in a good light and flow area and it is doing great. I feed my fish frozen mysis and brine shrimp, and the sun coral will actually grab a piece of it if it falls in that direction. I will try to upload a pic.

 

[ADDH2O]

This is my sun coral

 

[nanomania]

nice, but i cant feed mysis... is cyclopeeze ok? will feed good qty....

 

[nanomania]

do i need to feed each head or just a few?

 

[nanomania]

i have freez dried normal shrimps that i feed my turtle once a week..... can i feed that?

 

[ADDH2O]

Honestly I can't answer that as I don't know, I was only telling what has worked great for me. To be honest though, I used to have a turtle and those shrimps are freshwater shrimp, I wouldn't put those into your saltwater tank.

I would suggest biting the bullet and ordering mysis. Not at all saying this in a mean way, but if you can't afford to order the food something needs, I'd try to find it a new home.

 

[nanomania]

well i have not yet bought..... i was planning on as they are available... i read some articles that feed cyclop and plankton, so came up with an idea... if its not good for them i wont buy......

 

[ADDH2O]

Yea, I don't even know what that is, I've never heard or seen it in south Florida, sorry

Good luck though. Need someone else who is familiar with that to add some info.

 

[MarineSniper]

Larger plankton will work almost as well as mysid although I'm guessing the pieces are small, if in a coral food. Cyclopeeze will work but will take so much, if used primarily, that your water quality may suffer

If you are unable to procure mysid or brine, at a reasonable price, try getting Fauna Marin medium LPS pellets. Very high in nutrients and the perfect size. If you can't get the FM, you can try regular coral pellets but soak them well in a vitamin supplement, preferably Selcon, as most pellets, other than Fauna Marin are too hard a consistency for suns to digest. Brine, if you can get it will suffice but will need soaked in vitamins as well, as they're very low in nutritional value, on their own

If you have a local forum there, you may want to see what local nps keepers are using. Love Singapore, btw. Would love to get back there one day!

 

[MarineSniper]

Double post

 

[nanomania]

Larger plankton will work almost as well as mysid although I'm guessing the pieces are small, if in a coral food. Cyclopeeze will work but will take so much, if used primarily, that your water quality may suffer

If you are unable to procure mysid or brine, at a reasonable price, try getting Fauna Marin medium LPS pellets. Very high in nutrients and the perfect size. If you can't get the FM, you can try regular coral pellets but soak them well in a vitamin supplement, preferably Selcon, as most pellets, other than Fauna Marin are too hard a consistency for suns to digest. Brine, if you can get it will suffice but will need soaked in vitamins as well, as they're very low in nutritional value, on their own

If you have a local forum there, you may want to see what local nps keepers are using. Love Singapore, btw. Would love to get back there one day!

can i feed them live 1day old baby brine shrimps? selcon too im planning to buy... i do get frozen brine shrimps locally... are frozen shrimps ok? i feed my turtle once a week.. well yes i im from india but i go to thailand & singapore once a year to get stuff for my tanks...

 

[MarineSniper]

Sorry, it was another thread where the poster was from Singapore

Brine, frozen and live, will work but you have to fortify them with vitamins. The live ones, you just add it to the water 6 hours or so before feeding them to the corals. Frozen, just soak the food in it for at least an hour, overnight is better. If you're able to get a shipment of live mysid, you may want to consider propagating them (that's what I'm doing, to cut down on dead foods). It's a bit labor intensive, how've

 

[nanomania]

Sorry, it was another thread where the poster was from Singapore

Brine, frozen and live, will work but you have to fortify them with vitamins. The live ones, you just add it to the water 6 hours or so before feeding them to the corals. Frozen, just soak the food in it for at least an hour, overnight is better. If you're able to get a shipment of live mysid, you may want to consider propagating them (that's what I'm doing, to cut down on dead foods). It's a bit labor intensive, how've

Well mysids are cannibals, so its difficult to breed them in sump... u need a huge setup..

 

[MarineSniper]

Yes, it takes about 10, 10g tanks and 2 20s. That's what I meant by labor intensive, you have to remove the newly hatched shrimp from the glass of the breeder tank and place them in their own tank. They'll all be roughly the same size so they can't consume each other. Brine are much easier, just very low nutritional value without fortifying

 

[nanomania]

hmm..... wish i had thatmuch time and space.... i would have arranged getting mysis from singapore since its not available in my country....

 

[negia22]

I feed a lot of different varieties of frozen food with my sun coral, They are 1 week old in my tank so I am feeding it once a day until they come out more often.

I tried feeding it with fresh shrimp from my seafood store, I chopped them and grind them in smaller pieces and feed it to my sun coral, tried cyclopeeze too but it's too small and it made my water cloudy, any fresh seafood chopped in small pieces are great for them, make sure the slice pieces will fit there mouths.

GL

 

[blackstrat]

This question was asked but not answered:
Do each head need feeding, or do they share the nutrition with the entire colony?

I have a colony that semicircle the rock base, hence it is hard to target feed each and every head.

Thanks

 

[nanomania]

This question was asked but not answered:
Do each head need feeding, or do they share the nutrition with the entire colony?

I have a colony that semicircle the rock base, hence it is hard to target feed each and every head.

Thanks

So its ok to feed majority heads and not all.....?

 

[jasin401]

you can soak pellets with tank water in a cup, use a small baster and blast into their mouths. i dont try to get every head, and mine has been growing heads like crazy. if you want to add some cyclop ease to it that will work as well.

also watch out for cleaner shrimp and such(if you have any). they tend to hang near the lps and rip the food out of their tentacles. i try and deter the shrimp by squirting some food in another section of the tank away from the coral to get the shrimp away. then feed the corals