How many mouths to feed - Lobo or LPS's in general

[mandarin chick]

I got this beauty about 2 weeks ago. I have not seen a single feeding tentacle since then, so I am trying to hand feed him.

This may be a stupid question - but I have to ask.... does each mouth have to be fed, or does feeding 1 feed the colony? The reason I ask is that he only has 1 horizonal polyp and the rest are relatively vertical. Can't seem to keep food in them.

located bottom of the tank, under 96 actinic 11 hours, 150 MH 6 hours, not exactly 'low' flow, but definitely not high... I mention this with respect to the zooanthellea (don't pick on my spelling!)

 

[organism]

You don't need to feed it anything, so no worries, it'll do fine on its own with light. Chances are at night it will open up to feed, but I never fed any of the ones I had and they great like crazy and looked great

Nice piece by the way! Sometimes people have issues with the flesh getting cut on rocks as they expand when they mount them off the sandbed, keep an eye out if it starts looking a bit retracted.

 

[mandarin chick]

You don't need to feed it anything, so no worries, it'll do fine on its own with light. Chances are at night it will open up to feed, but I never fed any of the ones I had and they great like crazy and looked great

Nice piece by the way! Sometimes people have issues with the flesh getting cut on rocks as they expand when they mount them off the sandbed, keep an eye out if it starts looking a bit retracted.

As mom to, with a heavy, reluctant and slightly embarassed sigh, eight (8) dogs, wife to a husband who snores loud enough to set off car alarms, and a landscaper by trade - I am up at all hours of the nite, and the alarm goes off at what normal people feel is an ungodly hour. Every time I am walking by in the late or wee hours, I have yet to see a tentacle.

Sleep deprived invention of problems? or are we ok with no tentacles.

 

[MechEng99]

Your corals looks extremely healthy, and it is just likely acclimating. Acans typically extend polyps at night or when there is food in the water column.

If you're concerned about getting the tentacles out, try dosing amino acids one hour before the lights go off (you don't have to...but if you have them on hand already, you can try that.)

You can also place some food in each polyp's mouth - with a coral that healthy looking you should see a feeding response within minutes. If you don't, wait 30 minutes...if still nothing, gently blow the food off each polyp and try again at night.