Sun Coral

Mine is doing great, too. It seems like a really fast grower so we all may be needing to figure out how to frag them without hurting them soon.

I'm just feeding it every other day. It's not as hard as I thought it would be to feed just the sun coral and not blow too much food into the rest of the tank.

As long as the polyps look healthy and the tissue in between doesn't start to recede, I'm going to feed it no more than I have to. It seems to open up and catch stuff when I feed the rest of the tank anyway.
 
I rescued a sun coral (20 polyps at one time) that was in bad shape a while back. By the time I got it there were only 3 polyps left that looked like they had any chance. 2 of those died but the one remainder seems to be doing well now. It looks odd to just see a single polyp but I am hoping it will spread eventually.
 
I've had mine for 3 years now and on the back of all my live rock I have little colonies of tubastreaa I guess from planula?
 
Here is a recent pic


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Here you can see what a focal point he is for the tank.

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I joined the Sun Coral club yesterday ...yep I got one too at Memfish. I hope mine does as well as yours has Cathy.
BJ
 
Thanks BJ .... I'm sure yours will do great.

They seem to be easy as long as they're fed.

They certainly are beautiful
 
When I first set up my tank, a bunch of little (tiny) hitchhiker corals grew on one rock that looked a lot like those. They were tiny and the polyps were more clear. The big difference was that there was just a bit of hard skeleton that grew up like a cup and the colony wasn't so close together/connected.

I wasn't able to keep them alive. I wonder now if they needed direct feeding like the tubastrea and dendrophyllia?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11837104#post11837104 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crpeck
When I first set up my tank, a bunch of little (tiny) hitchhiker corals grew on one rock that looked a lot like those. They were tiny and the polyps were more clear. The big difference was that there was just a bit of hard skeleton that grew up like a cup and the colony wasn't so close together/connected.

I wasn't able to keep them alive. I wonder now if they needed direct feeding like the tubastrea and dendrophyllia?
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Possibly a Cladocora sp. which look similar.

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That could be it. It's been a while.

I just remember that when I fed the tank, beautiful transparent little tentacles would come out that looked (shape wise) like the tubastrea.

I was sorry that they didn't make it.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11839050#post11839050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crpeck
That could be it. It's been a while.

I just remember that when I fed the tank, beautiful transparent little tentacles would come out that looked (shape wise) like the tubastrea.

I was sorry that they didn't make it.
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Were they on Florida rock?
 
Probably.

It's been since summer of 2003 so I don't remember. But I got the rock from Dave at Kermits and seem to remember that the Florida rock was one price and the Fuji or Marshall Rock was more. So I got mostly FL Rock and got some nice pieces of the exotic rock to put on top.
 
I got some Florida rock one time that has some of the Cladocora coral on it. I don't think I've ever seem them anywhere else.
 
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