show me your sun coral
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Yeah, the jury still is out on if there is such thing as a red sun coral! Even if I can't get mine "red" again, I'm happy with the deep peachy pink color it is
Qckwzrd, mine took about a month before I couldn't really call it red anymore, just deep pink. The whole thing just gradually got lighter and lighter. I did touch it by accident when I was still putting it in a feeding bowl to feed, and the red color never came off on my hands, though I did puncture the tissue and the skeleton showed :mad2: I did the same thing to my black sun coral, and have never seen the color come off. Kreeger, wow, you have T. micrantha. How's that doing for you? They're supposed to be the hardest of the tubastrea to keep.
here is mine http://youtube.com/watch?v=3olFsgxmoOI
xroads I am far from an expert, but what's the flow like that you have it in? They need/like significant flow. Neither of mine opened fully until I put them 6" under a 100gph water flow source, almost directly in the current.
Carbone, very nice! I love how those polyps are moving around in the flow.
Carbone, very nice! I love how those polyps are moving around in the flow.
Qckwzrd,
I love your white tubastrea. When you got it, how did you know it had white polyps? All the ones I've ever seen in aquarium stores have been closed, and many of the online vendor photos of corals show suns with closed polyps as well. Did you just take a chance and get lucky? What's the color of it when the polyps are closed?
I love your white tubastrea. When you got it, how did you know it had white polyps? All the ones I've ever seen in aquarium stores have been closed, and many of the online vendor photos of corals show suns with closed polyps as well. Did you just take a chance and get lucky? What's the color of it when the polyps are closed?
Qckwzrd
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Well it started about 4-5 months ago when my tank had crashed. I lost all three of the suncorals pictured above (I gave what was left to a friend) and moved my orange frag I had to my tank at work. All the polyps died but there was skin left on the side. After about 2-3 monthsi started to see small white polyps that started to bud. I fed them cyclops for a month and moved them to my home tank. Since then they have grown a lot and I have about 15-20 polyps. They are white with red mouths and I do have one baby orange suncoral polyp next to the whites. Its the only one suncorals I've ever seen. So that's my pride and joy coral.
There are also cupcorals, pure white and with orange body - mine were much smaller (~8x), than tubastreas.
Link to another thread
And on this website , non-photosynthetic big tank (very nice), in gallery are Mediterranean Astroides calycularis. Link to ID.
Quite interesting are all tubastreas and the similar corals.
Link to another thread
And on this website , non-photosynthetic big tank (very nice), in gallery are Mediterranean Astroides calycularis. Link to ID.
Quite interesting are all tubastreas and the similar corals.
That's very interesting. So the white polyps grew back from a coral you had that was previously orange? There were no white polyps before the crash and the meltdown?
While we're sharing photos, here's another photo of a white tubastrea in the wild.
http://www.divegallery.com/tubastrea_2.htm
While we're sharing photos, here's another photo of a white tubastrea in the wild.
http://www.divegallery.com/tubastrea_2.htm
How I found it: while non-photosynthetic corals web search leads mainly to general information and don't do it, the search for Menella and skimmer - gave that (through the illustrated croatian forum, which I don't understand). And Scleronephthya plus skimmer search - non-photosynthetic forum at Ultimate Reef (uk). You never know 
The Karl's tank is interesting for me by aquascaping, possibility to have a lot of LR, even with high levels of feeding (my rock accumulated nitrates and phosphates with time, so I moved it after mechanical filtration). Also - classification of tube anemones and their keeping. I have one, and hoping to have more, if they will be compatible.
Translation: Google has Language tools (at the right from the search box), pasting url do not working for the frames, so I copied pieces of text for translation box.
Was particularly impressed by automatic translation from Japanese - the best looking tank with Dendronephthya, you know it: Japanese site and link to it from RC.
The Karl's tank is interesting for me by aquascaping, possibility to have a lot of LR, even with high levels of feeding (my rock accumulated nitrates and phosphates with time, so I moved it after mechanical filtration). Also - classification of tube anemones and their keeping. I have one, and hoping to have more, if they will be compatible.
Translation: Google has Language tools (at the right from the search box), pasting url do not working for the frames, so I copied pieces of text for translation box.
Was particularly impressed by automatic translation from Japanese - the best looking tank with Dendronephthya, you know it: Japanese site and link to it from RC.
aninjaatemyshoe
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Dendro, I have my doubts about the Japanese tank you linked. I do not think that it actually maintains the dendronepthyas, just held them for the sake of a pretty picture. If whoever setup this tank actually managed to care for them in such a setup, they need to reveal how they did it. I find it difficult to believe that they are thriving in a mixed reef when very few people are able to maintain them in dedicated tanks.
