I've been seeing quite a few sun polyp threads (mostly on feeding) in this forum lately so I decided it'd be cool if we could get some input from fellow owners and have all sun polyp questions posted here instead of having multiple threads on the same topic 
Most of the questions seem to be about feeding. This can be done in several ways with several different types of food. Some people choose to take their sun polyps out of the tank and into a bowl for feeding. I do not do this so hopefully someone can come along and explain that for me. I feed my sun polyps with the lights on and about every other day. I coax them to open up with a little frozen cyclopeeze and then when they're all open I feed them a mixture of finely chopped silversides, mysis, squid, and the occassional brine shrimp. Brine tends to have a lesser nutritional value so they do not get fed this often.
I am setting up a new tank and converting my 24 gallon nano cube to a tubastrea/dendrophyllia tank. I have black, yellow, and varying shades of orange sun polyps in there right now with about 6 colonies but I'm on the hunt for several hard to find color varieties. My sun polyps are in full light and medium flow and seem to do well where they're at. This being said, I have the standard compact fluorescent lights and the standard pump from the 24 gallon NC DX, so it's a little less bright than T-5s or metal halides. Sun polyps are nonphotosynthetic so they do not need to be in bright light but must be fed.
Hopefully some more people can chime in on this thread and make it a useful source of information for those who are choosing to embark on this labor of love
Most of the questions seem to be about feeding. This can be done in several ways with several different types of food. Some people choose to take their sun polyps out of the tank and into a bowl for feeding. I do not do this so hopefully someone can come along and explain that for me. I feed my sun polyps with the lights on and about every other day. I coax them to open up with a little frozen cyclopeeze and then when they're all open I feed them a mixture of finely chopped silversides, mysis, squid, and the occassional brine shrimp. Brine tends to have a lesser nutritional value so they do not get fed this often.
I am setting up a new tank and converting my 24 gallon nano cube to a tubastrea/dendrophyllia tank. I have black, yellow, and varying shades of orange sun polyps in there right now with about 6 colonies but I'm on the hunt for several hard to find color varieties. My sun polyps are in full light and medium flow and seem to do well where they're at. This being said, I have the standard compact fluorescent lights and the standard pump from the 24 gallon NC DX, so it's a little less bright than T-5s or metal halides. Sun polyps are nonphotosynthetic so they do not need to be in bright light but must be fed.
Hopefully some more people can chime in on this thread and make it a useful source of information for those who are choosing to embark on this labor of love
