Sun coral Tank
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zdawgnight
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feed often! then they are easy
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Melev's Sun coral tank
Currently I have a 24gal Aquacube that's just dedicated to sun corals - I make sure there's good flow and feed them once a night.
I am running into cyano issues from the over feeding. . . . :thumbdown I should . . . do something about that.
Melev's Sun coral tank
Currently I have a 24gal Aquacube that's just dedicated to sun corals - I make sure there's good flow and feed them once a night.
I am running into cyano issues from the over feeding. . . . :thumbdown I should . . . do something about that.
sukie80: can you post photo of the tank and filtration? How many corals, how much food they receive, how filtration works.
I'm also planning to set sun corals nano (10g) - see my thread below at this forum - and still didn't know, how to proceed better. Difficult to find the people with small sun coral tanks.
But there should be preferably the skimmer, or a very careful feeding, with no food lost.
Sorry, don't know about adult brine shrimp keeping in the same tank with tubastrea. If the colony is big - it will need a lot of meaty food, like mysis, ocean plankton, or chopped seafood.
I feed mine twice a week, good enough. Had read, that with smaller, but daily feedings (chopped krill) it grows very fast.
I'm also planning to set sun corals nano (10g) - see my thread below at this forum - and still didn't know, how to proceed better. Difficult to find the people with small sun coral tanks.
But there should be preferably the skimmer, or a very careful feeding, with no food lost.
Sorry, don't know about adult brine shrimp keeping in the same tank with tubastrea. If the colony is big - it will need a lot of meaty food, like mysis, ocean plankton, or chopped seafood.
I feed mine twice a week, good enough. Had read, that with smaller, but daily feedings (chopped krill) it grows very fast.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11904457#post11904457 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sukie80
Ck this out:'
Melev's Sun coral tank
Currently I have a 24gal Aquacube that's just dedicated to sun corals - I make sure there's good flow and feed them once a night.
I am running into cyano issues from the over feeding. . . . :thumbdown I should . . . do something about that.
"puts on best crocodile dundee voice"...That's not a sun coral tank, this is a sun coral tank ...:lol:
Daniela stettler
Mikey Donuts
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I have two suncorals in my 34g. One is baseball sized and the other is an orange branching species with about 20 small heads. I spray meaty food on the branching one when I feed the fish (every other day). I feed the larger one PE Mysis twice a week. Both are kept in medium- medium high flow and are doing well. They'll do fine in stronger light, but you may have problems with algae growing on the coral.
Mike
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Tennyson
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how do you go about feeding them when there are so many individual polyps kizkiz? I want to get some, but I'm afraid it'll be hard to at night, and Iight forget to feed them a couple nights. How often do they need to be fed? Would missing a night of feeding be the end of them? And are there diurnal ones that are open during the day and not night only?
FTS of Daniela Stettler's tank is here: http://www.recif-france.com/Articles/Portraits/Stettler/bacDaniela.php
Translation is possible, entering url in the Google Language Tools. It's a pity, that not too much was said about filtration.
Her 13 Mb pdf presentation (in German) is here: http://www.korallenriff.de/Sindelfingen2005/daniela_torsten_2005.pdf
Translation is possible in the same place, by copy-paste text into translation box.
My big tank is balancing between becoming like Daniela's in a few years, and between crashing due to insufficient skimming
I thought about desktop size grow out tank, especially, if it could fit 3 adult colonies too
Any ideas, how the good looking and densely populated sun tank should look like?
About feeding the big number of heads - I feed mine during daytime, after fish feeding. But always can induce opening for a feeding by adding a pinch of dried Cyclop-eeze into the water (for 90g). The only problem to make it open - if it was recently open, but closed without feeding, there will be 1-2 hrs interval before next full opening.
This topic is frequently discussed, so I made a page, how I feed mine, including video and links. All photos are done during daytime. http://defineyourreef.freehostia.com/refpages/sunfeed.html
Twice a week was good enough for me, but better results (faster growth) were achieved, when the coral was fed daily (somewhere on Acquaculturing forum, Fragging sun coral). Evilervin feeds twice a day, but I didn't found photo of his dedicated sun tank.
From what I know about filtration, there should be either a small coral with feeding by tweezers, without food being lost, or there should be a skimmer, more efficient, than Rio Nano, maybe Remora class.
Feeding by live food is a good approach, only I didn't tried this - problem with too much work, space and supplies.
Translation is possible, entering url in the Google Language Tools. It's a pity, that not too much was said about filtration.
Her 13 Mb pdf presentation (in German) is here: http://www.korallenriff.de/Sindelfingen2005/daniela_torsten_2005.pdf
Translation is possible in the same place, by copy-paste text into translation box.
My big tank is balancing between becoming like Daniela's in a few years, and between crashing due to insufficient skimming
I thought about desktop size grow out tank, especially, if it could fit 3 adult colonies too
Any ideas, how the good looking and densely populated sun tank should look like?
About feeding the big number of heads - I feed mine during daytime, after fish feeding. But always can induce opening for a feeding by adding a pinch of dried Cyclop-eeze into the water (for 90g). The only problem to make it open - if it was recently open, but closed without feeding, there will be 1-2 hrs interval before next full opening.
This topic is frequently discussed, so I made a page, how I feed mine, including video and links. All photos are done during daytime. http://defineyourreef.freehostia.com/refpages/sunfeed.html
Twice a week was good enough for me, but better results (faster growth) were achieved, when the coral was fed daily (somewhere on Acquaculturing forum, Fragging sun coral). Evilervin feeds twice a day, but I didn't found photo of his dedicated sun tank.
From what I know about filtration, there should be either a small coral with feeding by tweezers, without food being lost, or there should be a skimmer, more efficient, than Rio Nano, maybe Remora class.
Feeding by live food is a good approach, only I didn't tried this - problem with too much work, space and supplies.
sufunk
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Filtration doesnt have to be great depending on your feeding style and cleanup crew. I only have a aqua c remora on my 36g with my sun's. Ime, the key is placing the sun coral where it can be easily fed, not in a cave like alot of people say it needs.
I feed my sun coral very often and alot. I give frozen cyclopeeze and a homemade mix of seafood 3-4 times week but i feed under a tupperware container. All the food stays in there and after a few hours, i take it off. My shrimp, crabs and starfish eat the reat so my water isnt fouled up. Heres a feeding pic
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and after feeding
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I feed my sun coral very often and alot. I give frozen cyclopeeze and a homemade mix of seafood 3-4 times week but i feed under a tupperware container. All the food stays in there and after a few hours, i take it off. My shrimp, crabs and starfish eat the reat so my water isnt fouled up. Heres a feeding pic
<a href="http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g89/sufunk/?action=view¤t=sunfood1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g89/sufunk/sunfood1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
and after feeding
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Tennyson
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how expensive are these? I was at an lds, and they had about 4 polyps for $300! But they were open during the day, do they do that or is this some sort of special kind? If it is special, how much are the normal ones that I see closed during the day and is there any way to make them open up during the day?
Tennyson
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OK, that sounds right. But that lfs only has those dendro's. Bummer, I guess I have to find another lfs. My two others have them occasionally, but they are usually half dead with algea growing all over it. But is there anyway to make them open up during the day if thats even possible? Your pictures look like its during lights on.
sufunk
New member
Yeah, it's pretty easy to train them to open during the day. If you consistently feed them during the day, they will "learn" to open and stay open during the day.
I just drop in a few drops of selcon or zoecon and they start to open. Then after about 20 minutes i put the bowl on and feed.
After doing that during the day, 3-4 times a week for a few weeks, they started staying open for most of the day. The more you feed them, the more they will stay open, ime.
I just drop in a few drops of selcon or zoecon and they start to open. Then after about 20 minutes i put the bowl on and feed.
After doing that during the day, 3-4 times a week for a few weeks, they started staying open for most of the day. The more you feed them, the more they will stay open, ime.
The only pic i can think of that roger (evilervin) has posted of his tank is on here
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=189966&page=3
This is soon after a tank crash and horrendous aiptasia problem, so not looking the best.
Oh, and just for a taster of another burgeoning sun coral tank...
Check out this thread...
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=154256&page=52
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=189966&page=3
This is soon after a tank crash and horrendous aiptasia problem, so not looking the best.
Oh, and just for a taster of another burgeoning sun coral tank...
Check out this thread...
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=154256&page=52
