Sun coral feedings......

[steelcity]

do they require flow? thinking about getting my first ones.

 

[stunreefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15493279#post15493279 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mystery_reef
is the bottle method just to protect them from fish, etc. and help contain the food?

Yep :thumbsup:

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15533566#post15533566 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rhdoug
There is a feeder called "Sea Squirt" that is an extendable turkey baster, basically. You may need to enlarge the hole a little with a small drill bit to get larger food pieces thru it.

I use the same thing... I have several of them. Some of them the little gray piece on the end wasn't glued on, and you can just pull it off, which makes it a little bit larger than rigid airline tubing. One of them that I bought this piece was glued on, so I cut it off.

One of them I left normal (besides taking the gray end piece off), but the other two I gently heated up over my stove and bent them into different shapes, one is a "V" shape and the other is the same with less of an angle. I have NPS coral mounted up under rocks and the different shapes allow me to easily feed every polyp without getting my are wet :thumbsup:

I also like the fact that you can totally disassemble them to clean I'm still not sure what you would do with them if you left them stock with that stupid little gray piece on the end... who the hell spot-feeds liquids?!?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15560559#post15560559 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cooqiemonsta
to row sun coral quiker to frag them can i keep them in the dark at all time and grow faster or be healthier? mines arent looking to good and want it to grow back.

Assuming you feed the heck out of them they'll grow at the same rate in full light, or no light, it does not effect their growth. The more often and more food you feed (at a single time), the faster they'll grow.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15608611#post15608611 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by steelcity
do they require flow? thinking about getting my first ones.

Yes, all coral requires flow. They don't need as much as say Acropora spp., but they do need flow.

 

[droberts]

i feed mine mystis,brine and krill they love the krill they will stay out longer and are fat looking when i feed them krill everyone should try to feed there's krill at least once or twice a week just to try it for themselves Dan

 

[aries70]

I was wondering does all the polyps need to be fed every time ? I've been thinking about getting a sun

 

[uhuru]

They have a shared energy reserve (as long as they are connected), but this is not enough to sustain individual polyps for extended periods of time. Eventually each polyp needs to be fed but not every single time.

I'm still experimenting with different ways to feed each polyp. Right now I use extended tongs and its just taking way too long (imagine one piece of shrimp for each polyp x 40-50 polyps). I think I may try that sea squirt and put my mp10 in feed mode. I also have to make sure I feed my chalk bass very well first because he is the ultimate thief. Worse than a freaking shrimp!

 

[Imzadi]

Okay... I have tried the mini tub idea, fed at midnight, flooded him with a buncha food... I can't get him to come out. Is there any tricks? ... besides these, I mean.

 

[NANOYED]

I target feed mysis, cyclopeeze, & bloodworms every other day

 

[adambirk]

imzadi, cut the top off a clear pop bottle. depending on how big the colony is will detemin what size pop bottle. cover the coral with the popbottle and then squirt the water/juices that you have been thawing the frozen food in. also cyclopeez will also work really well for this they love the smell of the suff. and wait a while you should see the polps react in the first 15 minutes or so. if they dont try the same thing again the next day at the same time.

do this for a week if you still get no response from the polyps then i am sorry my friend but the chances that that coral is going to survive is pretty low.

i have found that most of the suncorals need to be fed alot more when you first get them because chances are they have not been fed well lately and the extra food will really bring them back fast. i would say that if you can get them to open up and eat i would be feeding them daily or every other day for about a month then you could cut back to 2 times a week and they will do great at that.

hope this helps.