<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10966876#post10966876 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by shabreeson
I have had a sun coral for about 4 to 6 months, and it it thriving to the point where I am seeing baby colonies all over my tank. They require no light but algae is their enemy(I honestly have no idea what would happen if they were under intense metal halide lighting but i wouldn't try it). They require as many direct feedings as you are willing to do, once a day is best(I feed with mysis shrimp and or brine shrimp(trust me on this), and I usually feed them at a certain time so the polyps are ready and waiting to be fed so I don't need to coax them with the mysis juce to open) once a week would be the minimum and they'll be just fine, a full 30 polyp colony can eat up to 2 cubes of brine shrimp in one sitting. when it comes to water flow they prefer very little, but if anything settles in between the polyps(on the fleshy part in between, when they heal that far) it will kill any flesh that it settles on, so all you need to do is to blow it off if you knowtice it.
as to whether it will survive...probably not if the polyps don't come out. how large the starving polyps are in diameter will also be a big factor. if they are the full 1cm then your in great shape (which I doubt) if half a cm then i would feed them as often as possible with a mix of minced up brine shrimp and phytoplankton at a specified time. the reason it would be optimal to feed at a certain time is because it uses a lot of energy in the process of opening its polyps which it needs to survive, so make it count.
In the long term if you don't have a big enough system to devote this much food to such a coral,due to what you want your nitrates to be, sell it off.
the above specifications is exactly why lfs are rarely are able to keep sun corals, you cant just throw the siht in there and hope your sun coral lives. it takes some attention.
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