I won a yellow Sun Coral frag at the April meeting and have been reading a lot about it. I love this beautiful dark-loving voracious coral and am curious who donated the frag so I can find out more about the environment the frag came from, tips...
Sun Coral from the April meeting
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Rogger Castells
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I think it was Eric, AKA ek9vboi
Ah, yes. There they are on page 4 of his post.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=793351&perpage=25&pagenumber=4
I guess he didn't want to bother with them after all. Oh well, I'll do my best to keep them happy. Here's a cool Sun Coral link:
http://www.melevsreef.com/suncoral.html
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=793351&perpage=25&pagenumber=4
I guess he didn't want to bother with them after all. Oh well, I'll do my best to keep them happy. Here's a cool Sun Coral link:
http://www.melevsreef.com/suncoral.html
Hey, yeah that was my coral I put in the auction.
From the day I got it, it was close to being nothing. The orginal owner wanted to toss it but I wanted to give it a chance and its come back from what it use to be.
Before
Now
I always kept it in my sump because it didn't need any light to grow. Fed every 2-3 days mysis shrimp and cyclopez, sometimes brine shrimp. Water conditions are pretty good in my tank and I do the usual weekly waterchange. Not sure what I did, but its open for most of the day time and even night time.
All I can really say is just feed it and it will do well. What I did was put it in a container with tank water/food mix and just let it grab whatever it can. Every 5-10 mins mix the water up so the food goes everywhere and gives it a chance to grab what it can again. A few times should do it.
From the day I got it, it was close to being nothing. The orginal owner wanted to toss it but I wanted to give it a chance and its come back from what it use to be.
Before
Now
I always kept it in my sump because it didn't need any light to grow. Fed every 2-3 days mysis shrimp and cyclopez, sometimes brine shrimp. Water conditions are pretty good in my tank and I do the usual weekly waterchange. Not sure what I did, but its open for most of the day time and even night time.
All I can really say is just feed it and it will do well. What I did was put it in a container with tank water/food mix and just let it grab whatever it can. Every 5-10 mins mix the water up so the food goes everywhere and gives it a chance to grab what it can again. A few times should do it.
Thanks, Eric.
My fuge is a bit crowded with various macroalgae and the lights are pretty bright (2 65w PCs, white and actinic), but I might move it there if it doesn't do well in its current location. My Niger Trigger kept moving it from a nice little cave between the rocks and dumping it in the sand, so I IC glued it to the underside of an overhang. I read somewhere that's where they occur in nature. Should make feeding a bit tricky, but there are plenty of pods and mysis in my tank. I'll let you know how it goes.
My fuge is a bit crowded with various macroalgae and the lights are pretty bright (2 65w PCs, white and actinic), but I might move it there if it doesn't do well in its current location. My Niger Trigger kept moving it from a nice little cave between the rocks and dumping it in the sand, so I IC glued it to the underside of an overhang. I read somewhere that's where they occur in nature. Should make feeding a bit tricky, but there are plenty of pods and mysis in my tank. I'll let you know how it goes.
At first I had the frag out on top of a rock. It opened up at night, stayed closed during the day. By about the third day some of the polyps looked a little brown, like they were being burned. They weren't, but that's when I decided to move it. The frag seems to be doing OK now on the overhang. It's the first day, but the polyps opened up as soon as the daylights went off.
Here are the latest pics...
Sun Coral in a popular overhang surrounded by camera hogs. I used a flash during the evening actinic photoperiod.
Side view in actinic light.
Sun Coral in a popular overhang surrounded by camera hogs. I used a flash during the evening actinic photoperiod.
Side view in actinic light.
