Sun Coral ?

Some people feed a few times a week and then others if they have lots of time will actually try and feed everyday. The more you feed, the faster they grow usually.

I feed my suncorals about 3 times a week.
 
I feed mine pretty much every night, and occasionally skip a night. I've found that when I skip a night the feeding response isnt as strong the next night though.
 
Thrillman: I see that you don't keep them in a shaded are like most people do. I just got one this weekend and it only opens at night which I was told is normal. Does your open during the day since it's in the light?
 
Mine open when food is present regardless of what time it is. I keep them out in the open because its easier to feed them that way. Once they feed they stay open for the rest of the night (even when the lights are still on)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10452140#post10452140 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bobafett
Mine open when food is present regardless of what time it is. I keep them out in the open because its easier to feed them that way. Once they feed they stay open for the rest of the night (even when the lights are still on)
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Mine stay open all night as well.
 
Anyone have pics of some fully opened sun corals during the day? Mine will open up during the day and stay kind of open all day after eating but never "REALLY REALLY" open like during the night.
 
i Feed minds about 4-5 times per week, they stay open when ever food is the water

but i recently had some tissue ressetion, so i've been feeding more frequent
 
Ace1 is that a black sun coral in your pics?

What do you feed it? I have some black sun corals as well.

Feeding 4-5 times a week and there is tissue recession.....man they must want to eat 7 days a week!

I'm also wondering if the tissue recession is because of high nitrates? I think there was a guy who had lots of sun corals but he couldn't get a hold on the high nutrients and his sun corals started receeding.
 
Mine during daytime:

Mar23_07daytime.jpg


After the lights are off - twice-trice more polyps extension.

And just found the thread, where number of polyps doubled with daily feedings: link .
 
dendro982, great picture. What lights are your sun corals under and were they open before you fed them or after you fed them? Very pretty!
 
I feed my current ones about 5 times a week. I had high nitrates and lost just about all my suncorals a few months back :( they use to open up very nice during the day. Orange, black and yellow suncorals. Now I have a cpr fuge on the tank with cheato and I rinse my frozen food off and add selcon. And I do water changes more often now. Current suncorals and dendros are doing good but don't open all the way during the day (well dendros do). At night they open up lovely tho. Dendro982 great pic! I'm going to go towards a tank with mainly suncorals.
 
Mikeman i feed them chunks of Mussles Shrimp, Mysis cyclopeez and artemia mixed up. I just added selcon and a rotifer vitamin mix...

My nitrates are Very low if any, but you may be right cause the more you feed the higher the nitrates... Im thinking about going to silversides dipped in selcon for a cleaner solid food..
 
What lights are your sun corals under and were they open before you fed them or after you fed them?
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Me culpa, comparing apples and oranges, without mentioning this.

110W PC over 90g tank, was the same at 220W (the light is low intentionally, have deepwater fish).
Here is under 220W, top 1/3 of the tank, plus direct sunlight from the small basement window at the left:

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The sun coral opens 3 times daily, within 15" after feeding fish, to pick up the floating pieces, a lot of them. The feeding or sun corals is done after evening opening, 1 hr before the vacuuming bottom, trying to keep 2x a week, but in a hot weather without chiller or air conditioning there, have to limit to 1x a week temporarily.

Sorry about your loss, Qckwzrd. Mine stands NO3 up to 80 ppm and PO4 up to 1 ppm (usually 0.5 ppm and less). What is disapproved - red slime and acoel worms in refugium, they produce something, that can be removed by carbon. Had to disconnect refugiums.

With some of babies:
Jun22_07daytime.jpg
 
Ace1 -you definitely give your black sun corals a 5 star meal :-)
Do you think silvesides are too big of a food item and are silvesides a god food source? I'm thinking about switching to silversides because I have to give my dendros and suncorals so many mysis for them to be satisfied. Please tell me what you know about silversides compared to other foods.

Dendro982 - beautiful! Keep up the good work.
 
dendro982
did you frag those babies?

I feed mine every night with chopped krill and a turkey baster.
new polyps grow every day.
 
The babies in previous post are self-settling. I did the re-gluing of another self-settling spawns, that settled in a wrong place - onto chili coral. Picked off (English usage?) the single polyps by fingernail, superglued to the LR rubble, they opened next day. They grow faster, when fed, mine are self-sustaining (mostly no target feeding) in well fed tank. Gave away as much as I could of these babies, still no shortage - the main coral sends new spawns again and again.



After the hot weather ends, I'll try to feed the main sun coral more, would like to see it growing too!
 
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