I've never seen sweeper tentacles

[DTeeVee]

So I've been kind of sad with a little sense of fear that I have never seen any of my corals show sweepers. They all eat but they never show feeder tentacles either. Am I doing something wrong? Am I just being extremely unlucky with the corals I pick or something? All corals are growing extremely well. I even have lobos next to a bunch of softies and they don't do anything. How do I get them to show their tentacles!

 

[homer1475]

Look at night after lights out.

Depending on the coral you may never see feeder and/or sweepers. My lobo looks like a fuzzy doughnut after lights out with so many tentacles.

 

[DTeeVee]

Look at night after lights out.

Depending on the coral you may never see feeder and/or sweepers. My lobo looks like a fuzzy doughnut after lights out with so many tentacles.

I do after night, I look at my euphyllia and lobo garden and I see nothing

 

[homer1475]

Other then my torch, I have never seen sweepers on my euphyillia. All my other LPS corals(Acans, lobo, trachy, etc) certainly display feeders.

If your not seeing feeding tentacles, how are you feeding them? They use the tentacles to catch and gather food that they shuttle into their mouths.

FWIW, I only feed my corals once a week, the rest of the week they get fed light. If their not hungry, they may not display feeding tentacles.

 

[DTeeVee]

I just take some mysis and just burst it into their mouths

 

[rvareef]

what fish do you have? You can try stirring up sandbed, that gets a response from most of my lps

 

[DTeeVee]

2 ocellaris, tribal blenny, 2 chalk bass and a little yellow tang

 

[mcgyvr]

You might want to get your eyes checked..

 

[Lsufan]

Are u not seeing any feeder tenicles eighther, or is it only sweepers u don't see? I don't get feeders onany of my euphylia but all my other lps shows them during feedeing. I have seen the long sweepers only on a couple of occasions.

 

[DTeeVee]

Are u not seeing any feeder tenicles eighther, or is it only sweepers u don't see? I don't get feeders onany of my euphylia but all my other lps shows them during feedeing. I have seen the long sweepers only on a couple of occasions.

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