Sun Coral?

[FishboyBT]

I got my sun coral yesterday, and was told it opened at night. It didn't open! Could this be because it's new to this enviornment?

Please help!

 

["Umm fish?"]

It needs to (1) get used to where it's living and (2) smell food in the water to open. There are many threads here about getting sun corals to open but the short version is to introduce smelly food (cyclopeeze, squid, etc.) to the water at the same time each day and the coral will soon learn to open about the time.

Good luck!

 

[simonf]

Ditto on what umm,fish said. Also They like high flow and will tend to open up more if water is flowing over them quickly.

 

[JTEAGUE]

I keep mine tucked back in caves (low flow) and always spray a little mysis juice around them.They open right up.

Orange sun coral

Black sun coral is open almost all day food or not.

Good luck, give it time it will open. Also check out melevsreef.com he has a lot of good info on sun corals.

 

[al abaqueta]

All of the above are excellent advice. Try to feed it cyclopeez around the same time after the lights go out, maybe 30 minutes. You will soon train it to come out when you turns your lights off. Once it opens up on a regular basis, you can spot feed with mysis shrimp. Try you get each polyp fed. Good luck. Al

 

[DiViNeLeFT]

also it is a good idea to target feed them to start since they loose their ability to capture food quickly when starved and they usually first come in starved unless they came from a fellow reefers tank that they were well fed in. i take mine out of the tank and feed them in a seperate container, once they swallow all the food i put them back in and dump the excess food in the tank to feed everything else. that way my shrimp dont rob the suncorals and i dont have to put a lot of food into the tank trying to get them to grab a few chunks.

 

[Indermark]

Mine come out almost instantly when I put cyclopezee in the tank. Before I used mysis to lure them out and not all of them would come out I thought many were dead. Then when I got some cyclopezee it was insane on how many come out now. I have also started taking them out to feed them but it becomes a pain because it takes awhile for mine to eat and the temp falls a little bit when they are in the container. Mine are also fairly new from a LFS. Anyone ever feed them pelleted foods?

Ryan