Will it open more Large? Sun Coral?

[NanoCube-boy]

Okay guys, here in my Sun Corals. Thanks for all the help and now my corals open upder a 24watts 50/50 lighting.

They are usually open more, this picture was taking while they having sense of food. I'll try post up the night visual picture when I have time.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Here is the shot I promise you guys... This is a shot with flash on at night time during lighting period off. So what do you think?

Hi! Peeka Boo Sun Corals!! I SEE YOU!!!

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Sup guys, check this out. This the best photo i got for now.

 

[Javeo]

Make sure you feed it everyday, some of the flesh seems to have gone from between the polyps.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Yea.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Yea.... I notice

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Well, I can't really feed everyday, but if you would like to help me out on feeding, heres a seperate thread at Nano-reef, or you can help me here if you're not registered there. http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=21&t=92456

 

[Javeo]

Ok, I read your thread there as well, the advice you got there is good in order to lower nitrates. I wash any frozen foods, be it mysis, brineshrimp or silversides in tank water (save a large bottle-full at water change time) the ice contains alot of nitrates and phosphates that just pollute your water. The suncoral will sense the mysis themselves so you dont need to worry. If you want them to fully open before you feed just hang the net full of mysis in the water where there is flow and the coral will open up, then you can feed it. You really do need to start feeding more often than you are or the coral will waste away.
Good luck!

 

[NanoCube-boy]

i know... Thanks... Great tips. How much of cubes do i feed daily?

 

[PufferFish87]

daily feeding is the only way to keep ths coral going.. I dont think they're worth the trouble personally because they are usually not even open..

 

[NanoCube-boy]

What do you mean usually not open? I'm confuse. My Sun corals open certain time. FEEDING TIME. Why would you say that? why would you say don't think they're worth the trouble?

 

[sufunk]

They can be trained to open based on your feeding schedule. My sun is fully open from about 5-7pm until about 7am every day. Every other day feedings should be fine also.
You may want to consider making some food yourself. Get a few ounces of shrimp, clam, mussel, squid or whatever other fresh seafood they have. Blend it very fine and freeze it. I mixed in some selcon , zoecon and garlic. I just thaw a little chunk every other day, thaw in some water and feed it with a syringe under a cup. The sun LOVES it and everything else in the tank goes crazy for the leftovers after i take the cup off after a few hours. Only costs about 5 bucks for a few months worth.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

WOW, nice... Thanks for the tips... I like that Idea.

 

[Sangogo]

Omg, I love this forum. I just bought what I think is also a sun coral from an LFS here. (It's a magenta color, rather than the usual orange color I see on English forums though). Only they never explained how I should feed it. It wouldn't open even when I tried putting Marine Snow in the tank. So I tried what people recommended here, put it in a separate container and threw red worms (these are called "red bugs" in Japanese) at it and force fed some of the polyps. Soon it was eating well and stayed open once I put it in the tank. Here is a pic of it in the tank:

(It's actually more of a magenta color, but my camera phone caught some of the glare and my MH was already off for the night)

Thanks guys! I hope it will open up even more as I move along. It already looks better than it did at the store and I thought it was really pretty there as well. They told me it wasn't hard to feed, but that they hadn't really been feeding it.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Sangogo, Congratuation on your new coral, but I think you should be more experience on these Sun coral. Anyways, I think you can do a very good job feeding it, all you need to do is feeding it every other day with 2 cubes minimum to 3.

Well, it's kind of funny how you bought your SC and didn't really sure off it. That's a big mistake because what if you would bought the wrong coral or you know... Always prepare before buying a coral. Must have lot's of research before purchasing it.

I myself knew the constant feeding with this coral and it's really hard to take care of it. Though it isn't, just feed it, keep your parameter at corrective level and you be fine.

Heres what I think you should do with your SC. You should try some Mysis Shrimp with cyclop-eeze. First thaw the cube of food and pour the juice of the mysis in the tank, not meat. Wait 15minutes and shut off your pumps. Wait for another 15minute and they should be open. Use a turkey baster, or what every can shoot food directly to the polyps. Make sure you feed every polyps because each of them are individual, they are not together. ONE MORE THING, have a feeding schedule, that's when you train them to open up. Soon give them about few feeding time, they will get into the schedule and feed.

Let us know how your SC doing and I'm willing to help.

 

[Sangogo]

I actually wasn't planning to buy any non-soft corals, but this was a pretty rare color and since the store was having its annual 20% holiday sale, so it seemed like a good time to try it out something new. I mean, it cost about as much as a CD does. It wasn't going to kill me to try it, especially if the store said it was a simple enough coral. I just had different expectations of what they meant. Also, you have to realize that I don't live in the US. This country has a MUCH more lax attitude regarding keeping this stuff, since its mostly from local sources.

As for feeding it, I think I'm going to stick with the earllier quoted advice of taking it outside the tank into a separate container. I have really heavy flow in my tank for the sake of my kenya trees and neptheas and it'd be pretty hard to get the food to stay in the same place even with a cover. Not to mention the risk of polluting the water without really efficiently feeding the sun corals would be pretty high considering how little space they take up in my entire tank.

Thanks for the additional advice.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Cool, i'm just making sure that when you buy any kind of creature, please take care of it. I get really mad when buy it and let them die. I'm not a perfect guy myself, but i do fail on some creatures and i blame myself for being a failure. Do things right, take care your creature if you decide to willing, if not, give it away... Do what best for that creature, don't let it died.

Well i wish you luck on feeding them, it seem like you know what you're doing so far. Let us see how your SC doing later.

 

[NanoCube-boy]

When you feed in the bucket or bowl, do you have have to do a small water change in the tank? I mean your taking water out from the tank and you can not place the water from the feeding bowl back to the tank.

How does this process work anyway.

 

[Sangogo]

I put the coral back in the main tank and dump the water from the container into the sink. Truthfully, my system is so large compared to the amount of water I am taking out that I don't always have to pour new seawater in. (I use reef water that is shipped to me from the local reefs, so water changes are super fast and easy for me.)

 

[NanoCube-boy]

Local reefwater ship too you? What kind of cool service is that? That's cool... Now i have to use my Ro/di system to make synthetic water. I hate getting SW from LFS because i can't lift over 10lbs.

Do you scoop the tank water out to feed the sun coral? how did it react when you take them out to a bowl? how long it takes for them to open back in the bowl?