blackheart
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the skin of th coral cant get the water motion it needs to live so it dies and cause recession. Which leads to more and more till its gone
How fast can Sun Coral thrive?
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NanoCube-boy
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Really? Wow, i never knew that, but why does the skin need water flow?
sufunk
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Placement really depends on the size and shape of your sun. Mine is on the sand and does great because the polyps dont ever touch the sand. I make sure that the sand doesnt build around it and that the sun doesnt sink any. You definitely dont want any heads in the sand as it will smother them. I have read and seen firsthand that the polyps have a very difficult time releasing the sand.
That being said, if you can find a small flat rock to put it on or keep its polyps out of the sand somehow, it makes it much easier to feed with a bowl over it. Being on a rock makes it very difficult to keep other things from getting in the bowl, especially my starfish since you cant get a tight seal like pushing the bowl into the sand.
That being said, if you can find a small flat rock to put it on or keep its polyps out of the sand somehow, it makes it much easier to feed with a bowl over it. Being on a rock makes it very difficult to keep other things from getting in the bowl, especially my starfish since you cant get a tight seal like pushing the bowl into the sand.
blackheart
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but when you pull the bowl up out of the sand it will shoot sand everywhere and you will end up with sand in your polyps anyway.
sufunk
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That only happens when you just yank the bowl out. If you are careful, gentle and slowly turn the bowl as you pull up, No sand shoots up or near the polyps. It can be a pain but a little finesse and it works great.
It is interesting how my nassarius seem to know just when im going to feed and get themselves in just the perfect spot so that they end up under the bowl and not outside it.
It is interesting how my nassarius seem to know just when im going to feed and get themselves in just the perfect spot so that they end up under the bowl and not outside it.
NanoCube-boy
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i see
blackheart
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for timmy good luck with your new coral
thecichlidpleco
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What kind of lighting do they need?
dadonoflaw
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twon is correct they are non photosynthetic so light makes no difference to them. i will be getting mine soon and have been doing alot of research so it would be great to see more pics and hear more real world experience
ShiftNation
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I agree also they will come out under lights , but only if they get the right flow and food .
blackheart
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Just ask what you want to know and i will tell you to the best of my ability my real world experience.
blackheart
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Oh yeah and here are some more pics these are some real old pics from when i first transfered into this tank while my fuge was cycling before the coraline took over the back of the tank. Funy to look at i haven't seen these in a while. Tell me if you want newer pics, I can go take some.
I can take more if you want them
I can take more if you want them
NanoCube-boy
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EXACTLY what the other say. Sun/Black/Tubastraes Corals are non photosynthesis, they do not consume litting to grow. Their living spot in the wild are dark caves that filled with food to eat most of the day. Sun coral mainly thrive buy food, good water element quality. Needs plenty of caclium to built there skeleton to grow and survive.
In captive grown, must have the correct calcium level, plenty off food each polyp, and prefered dark area away from litting if possible.
Qckwzrd
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I have my suncorals at the top of my tank under my hang on filter and in the direction of the powerhead and just started to feed mine with a turkey baster. So far no problems at all. My Orange hasn't been out fully for about a week tho. I feed them about everyother day. I was thinking of just doing suncorals and only corals in the same family as them.
NanoCube-boy
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Qckwzrd, Well how many gallon is your tank? What filters do you have?
Wow! I really want to see polyps, capable to eat so much each! Do you have a pictures during feeding?
Polyps of mine become bigger after 6 months - but maximum three Ocean Plankton are fitting in.
BTW, found interesting all-in-one article. Also, Easy way to get sun coral (Tubastrea) spawning. Some of the pdf links here shows tank, filled by grown sun corals.
Way to have many (too many) sun corals, not big, although:
- parent.Link to my thread with sun spawns.
Could be the same for my sun colony. Water movement is stopped 2-3 times daily for a feeding, sometimes forgot to turn on after 10-15 min, so the maximal interval without water movement was 30 min.
Have a big skimmer (rated 250gal, on 90g tank), still babies appear regularly, but in small quantities - total may be 15. But the oldest from them already are growing side polyps and are clusters of polyps, instead of single polyps.
BTW, with low or no phosphates they expands much better. And frogspawn, touching them, kills them, leaving bare skeleton.
Water drop I have during water changes (side sump), bu it's small and not affects sun coral, which is much lower, that a "tidal" level.
When I kept sun coral in 1g (practically feeding chamber, but - with flow "on" almost all the time, Red Sea nano-filter. Water was 100% changed after feedings, old water from the nearby tank was used), it spawned onto the contracted chili coral with some microalgae film on it - it created layer, as a dirt. A lot more babies, as you can see. My guess, that live rock (not a sterile bare rock) could serve the same purpose.
Just feed well, keep polyps plump, so it will believe, that there will be enough food for a spawns too, IMHO
