Sun coral feeding?
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dreamaloud
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Mysis Shrimp. Larger than some other frozen foods and easy for the coral to grab onto and shove in its face. I don't have to make it eat, it makes ME feed it. It's quite demanding as soon as I shut the light off. My pom pom crab has moved in underneath the sun to grab the fallen shrimp.
dreamaloud
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No idea, mine has a few too and I know it's well fed. Anyone know? They might be baby polyps but they seem too far out of the center to me.
I have oranges and blacks and here's their feeding regimen:
-about 30 minutes before I feed them I put a little bit of frozen cyclopeeze in the tank...I feed with the lights on
-every day they either get squid or mysis, I alternate.
-I feed each polyp with a pipette
-about 1-2 a month they get tiny hunks of silverside
I've had great success with this regimen...hope it works for you
-about 30 minutes before I feed them I put a little bit of frozen cyclopeeze in the tank...I feed with the lights on
-every day they either get squid or mysis, I alternate.
-I feed each polyp with a pipette
-about 1-2 a month they get tiny hunks of silverside
I've had great success with this regimen...hope it works for you
seattlerob
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I feed mysis & meater frozen foods (rod's, formula one) using a turkey baster, about 20-30 minutes after the lights go off. I generally feed the other corals 1st, which seems to stimulate the sun coral polyps. By the time I feed them, their polyps are fully open. When I aim the turkey baster at the polyps, they grab onto the food & start eating. The polyps close up for 5-10 minutes before they open up again. They are noticably fatter after this
I tried taking it out of the tank and feeding it but for some reason it didnt open up. Any ideas? I just checked them it has been about 2 hours since lights out and they arent extended and arent really feeding? Do they stay close awhile before they start opening up in a new tank?
ReefBuilderNJ
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i usually add marine snow or cyclops in the tank and then the polyps extend and i feed brine and mysis
Ninja,
Try to entice it to open with liquid that has thawed from the frozen food.
Once it opens up. Just feed one of the polyps. After that. wait about 20 minutes and most of them should be open. Then you can feed all of them much easier.
If you ever walk by and see that on of the polyps has some tentacles out, feeding it will cause most of them to pop out.
Hope that helps!
Try to entice it to open with liquid that has thawed from the frozen food.
Once it opens up. Just feed one of the polyps. After that. wait about 20 minutes and most of them should be open. Then you can feed all of them much easier.
If you ever walk by and see that on of the polyps has some tentacles out, feeding it will cause most of them to pop out.
Hope that helps!
seattlerob
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I feed usually about 20-30 minutes after lights out.
well I just thawed out some mix seafood with the tank water. Used a turkey baster and sprayed a small mix to try to entice it. Came back 20 minutes later and they didnt really open. So used the turkey baster again this time sucking up the big chunks then sprayed it on top of the sun polyp so that chunks would sit near and on their mouth. Waited a little more and still nothing I thought maybe cause the food was settled and they dont taste it so I spray the food with turkey baster so they would float around and hopefully get a taste of it and still nothing. Anymore ideas? Should I force feed?
lux_06
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when feeding in a bowl outside of the tank i would make sure u dont expose the coral to air or handle it in a way that makes it think it needs to remain closed to be safe. also make sure that water in the bowl doesnt cool down too much cos i know if i leave a litre or so of tank water out for 5 minutes its cold allready.
ninja, i would check all of your params and place the coral in a more shaded position if its not allready. and then i would try feeding it half an hour after lights out, turn all the tank pumps off also so that when u spray the food onto the sun coral it hangs around. if its still not feeding then something else in your tank is bothering it or u bought a bad specimen... how long have u had it and has it ever fed???
adam
ninja, i would check all of your params and place the coral in a more shaded position if its not allready. and then i would try feeding it half an hour after lights out, turn all the tank pumps off also so that when u spray the food onto the sun coral it hangs around. if its still not feeding then something else in your tank is bothering it or u bought a bad specimen... how long have u had it and has it ever fed???
adam
