New Black Sun Coral!

[PGHreefer412]

Here's pics of my new black sun coral colony the same night i got it!

 

[CuttleKid]

that is beautiful. i have the hardest time getting black sun corals to open.

 

[slapshot]

The key is flow. They want a ton of flow. Way more than the yellow ones. I could not get mine to open until I moved them to a place where the flow is crazy and pop opened up and have been open ever since. Frankly I thought they were going to die so I stuck them there because it was not as visible. Now they are open all day.

 

[KimP]

Very nice!

 

[websiteworld]

How much lighting do they need?

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[PGHreefer412]

i actually turn all my powerheads off right before i feed them and leave them off for about 2 hours so theres almost no flow at all and they open right up not even 5 minutes after the lights go off. I have the Aquatic Life t5 HO light setup with the digital program timers. Two 150 watt MH's and two 54 watt actinics. Model # 420056.

 

[Caesra]

The key is flow.

I have not found this to be true, use to think this too. But stable params and a routine, reasonable, feeding schedule and they will open like clock work. They get almost no light though....

I currently have my black, and green, which is much more finicky in low flow areas of my macro tank and they open and grow very nicely.

 

[GreenTankCorals]

I have not found this to be true, use to think this too. But stable params and a routine, reasonable, feeding schedule and they will open like clock work. They get almost no light though....

I currently have my black, and green, which is much more finicky in low flow areas of my macro tank and they open and grow very nicely.

I would love to see the pics of your corals, I don't think I have even seen the green kind

 

[melonz]

Nice stuff. I have some yellows. Never seen these before nor have I seen the greens. Where did you get em?

 

[Caesra]

I would love to see the pics of your corals, I don't think I have even seen the green kind

I moved mine about 2 months ago to a different tank and they are royally ****ed off, well not anymore.but they bailed out half their polyps..so I would hate to take pics. They are recovering nicely...so holler at me in a month or so and I can take some pics of my greens.

more embarrased at the hurt I caused them, even though they are definatly doing better growth wise in their current location.

I searched for ages to find some greens, and ironically found them at a frag swap being sold as 'blacks' which they are def not. You can see what greens look like here

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reef/lg_stony/images/BlackSunCoral_TubastMicranthaWRLps_Ap8R.jpg

 

[PGHreefer412]

I got mine from the LFS here in Pittsburgh, 30 bucks for the colony, i got them on a saltwater thursday sale of 30% off! : )