Help Identifying Coral

bubba1170

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Can anyone help indentify what these corals are? Any special feeding instructions?

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Thanks,
Brian
 
The green one is Trachyphyllia; the red rim one seems to be the same, but the pics are kind of small to tell for sure.

Moderate light, moderate flow. They generally inflate the best when on a flat (sand) surface. They will take larger chunks of food, but are really better at catching and properly ingesting smaller pieces like Mysis.
 
Help again.

I have gotten the red one to eat however, the larger green one doesn't seem to eat. I have been dropping a krill shrimp so it lands in the middle of the brain but it doesn't seem to react at all. The red immediately starts to collect the shrimp and within 10 minutes has it completed enclosed in it's mouth.

What can I do to get the green brain to feed? Should I be concerned?

Brian
 
Unless youre chopping it very finely, krill is pretty large and tough to feed to a Trach. You may want to try something smaller like mysis or plankton. You may have better luck getting it to feed an hour or so after dark when its in 'hunt mode'.
 
I feed DT's one day and rotifiers the next. The little brain doesn't have a problem eating the krill surprisingly. should I cut it up and try feeding it? I typically feed it at night without any lights on.
 
Well, DTs and rotifers are at the other end of the spectrum. Trachy might be able to get some rotifers, but the DTs is way too small to be of any use for that or any other LPS. You can keep trying the krill, but like you mentioned, just chop it up fairly fine. Good luck with it!
 
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