Urgent SUN CORAL
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thatguy
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Cut the bottom off a 1-liter bottle. Cover the sun coral. Get a bunch of food, small stuff. Put a little into the bottle, using a turkey baster. Wait a few minutes add the rest. Gently mix the water with the baster every now and again. It should open up after a while. If not try again the next day.
Just my opinion, do with it as you will.
Just my opinion, do with it as you will.
"Umm fish?"
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BTW, the lighting doesn't matter. Just put them where you can feed them. If thatguy's suggestions don't work, get some squid juice and baster that over the polyps a couple of times/day. When you start to see polyps, then reward with food. Repeat as necessary. The smell of squid juice or crushed cyclops seems to warm the coldest of hearts. 
Good luck!
Good luck!
Grand Wizard
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Try squeezing a cockle or a whole Mussel over the sun coral that normally brings the polyps out, can you guys get cyclopeeze as that is brilliant food for all filter feeders. 
Rockitmakr
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Sun Coral
Sun Coral
Mine usually only comes out at night, or right after feeding time. Cyclops seem to really tickle their tase buds.
Cheers & Happy Reefing
Sun Coral
Mine usually only comes out at night, or right after feeding time. Cyclops seem to really tickle their tase buds.
Cheers & Happy Reefing
blackheart
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spray polyps with foods when the polyps begin to open and thye will soon start comeing out. For these corals the first month in your tank is the most important. They usually come in almost starved. So you must nurse it back to health using any of the great methods described above. When the polyps do start comeing out fully you should make a mix of cyclopeeze mysis and brine and feed them hardilly for at least a month this will get them back healthy again. After that once of twice a week shouldd be fine. Make sure at the begining you feed each polyp.....let it eat and if it comes back out in five to ten minutes feed it again. Once this coral gets full strength it will be able to fight off fish, star fish, and anything else that tries to steal its food. But till that happens you will have to keep the preditors away from it. Good luck and tell us how it goes
Some pics of my colony:
Some pics of my colony:
wcpeixoto
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I've read a lot about suncorals and for my own experience I can say they don't care too much about lighting or position. But they do care about circulation.
Be sure to place yours in a medium/strong circulation and add any food on the water to see what happens.
I have four for several months and initally feed them carefully as everybody recommends. They like but it is not necessary. Nowadays they eat just like all my others lps: phytoplan and zooplan three times a week and reefobooster weekly add to the water.
The ones on higher circulation opens much more than the ones under poor circulation.
Be sure to place yours in a medium/strong circulation and add any food on the water to see what happens.
I have four for several months and initally feed them carefully as everybody recommends. They like but it is not necessary. Nowadays they eat just like all my others lps: phytoplan and zooplan three times a week and reefobooster weekly add to the water.
The ones on higher circulation opens much more than the ones under poor circulation.
blackheart
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I second that high flow!!!!
"Umm fish?"
Premium Member
That's my experience, too, and the black grows fast. I think the yellow is the hardest to get out with the lights on. It's sure pretty, though.
musty baby
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When will this be a sticky? Seems like there's 3 of these threads a week...
yeah i am still having issues with mine mine is now in the 3 week area without food i have since put mine a qt tank with nothing else and i feed it every day all foods, brine mysis, krill, filter foods (jucies, which stink fishy) plankton the list goes on and it still has not come out i have left this coral in total darkness for over a week and still nothing i have played with high flow little flow. I am at a loss its starting to die and i have done almost eveything in my power any help?
PLEASE
PLEASE
"Umm fish?"
Premium Member
Qckwzrd--
Reds? Can you point me to some pictures? Thanks!
2revup--I'm sorry to hear about your coral. You say you feed every day. Does that mean that you feed multiple times per day? They like that.
Have you tried the same time every day? I've heard that helps.
How's the water quality in the QT? Remember, these are stoney corals and the water quality must reflect that.
Reds? Can you point me to some pictures? Thanks!
2revup--I'm sorry to hear about your coral. You say you feed every day. Does that mean that you feed multiple times per day? They like that.
Have you tried the same time every day? I've heard that helps.
How's the water quality in the QT? Remember, these are stoney corals and the water quality must reflect that.
yeah i have tried same time everyday,
The water is from my main so water qality is perfect
cal 530
kh 10
ph 8.2
nit 0
nitrit 0
Amm 0
Phosp 0
I have tired on the occasion feeding 2 times a day, but this creates to much problems in the QT with nitrate etc.
I dont know what else to do. The poloyops bases dont extend as much as they use to (like its getting weak), i just checked and they were extended as if they wanted to feed, so i threw some krill, mysis and filter feeding liquard in the tank and they still havent opened.
The water is from my main so water qality is perfect
cal 530
kh 10
ph 8.2
nit 0
nitrit 0
Amm 0
Phosp 0
I have tired on the occasion feeding 2 times a day, but this creates to much problems in the QT with nitrate etc.
I dont know what else to do. The poloyops bases dont extend as much as they use to (like its getting weak), i just checked and they were extended as if they wanted to feed, so i threw some krill, mysis and filter feeding liquard in the tank and they still havent opened.
"Umm fish?"
Premium Member
I think I would try the feeding bowl trick, then. Put the colony in a bowl. Squirt a little juice. If you see a reaction from the coral in 30-45mins., feed it. If there's no reaction, squirt a little juice again. Keep this up as many times as you can until it gets some food (you don't have to worry about water quality because you're going to throw this water out). When it does come out, fill the water with alarming amounts of small food. You want to reward it for showing its polyps. Stir up the water occassionally to keep the food in suspension so it's available to the polyps.
It might take a couple of days of this, but it will start coming out. Especially since it's probably pretty darn hungry by now.
It might take a couple of days of this, but it will start coming out. Especially since it's probably pretty darn hungry by now.
blackheart
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I have a black sun coral also and it does very well too it was almost dead when i got it and i have brought it back to the point where i dont have to worry much about it. They both come out at night or during the day. However even if they come out during the day they are still out all night.
I never feed my tank with the halides on so what i usually do i at about 7 oclock is feed the fish and corals. then wait about half an hour for these sun corals to come out, i then feed them out of a turkey baster. I feed a combo of brine, mysis, and cyclopeeze.
My yellow has sent polyps all over the tank so now i have about twenty colonies. The babies are still very very small and i do not feed any of them but. this is a great coral even though it is a baby sitter coral. I think it is well worth its draw backs.
Oh yeah I feed this coral now directly about once a week. If i feel like i neglected it i will feed it twice a week.
good luck
I never feed my tank with the halides on so what i usually do i at about 7 oclock is feed the fish and corals. then wait about half an hour for these sun corals to come out, i then feed them out of a turkey baster. I feed a combo of brine, mysis, and cyclopeeze.
My yellow has sent polyps all over the tank so now i have about twenty colonies. The babies are still very very small and i do not feed any of them but. this is a great coral even though it is a baby sitter coral. I think it is well worth its draw backs.
Oh yeah I feed this coral now directly about once a week. If i feel like i neglected it i will feed it twice a week.
good luck
