Yellow Chili Coral

[moevilla]

Are these similar in hardiness to the red chili coral? Does anyone have one of these? Are they common? Where would I be able to find one for purchase?

 

[teemee]

I saw one on DD the other day.

 

[Aquabacs]

Been playing with one for a few weeks. When it came in, I removed 4 small branches off the main colony, to see how the cuttings would do versus the main colony. Polyps are considerably smaller than the normal red Nephthyigorgia that come in making it slightly more challenging to feed. Actually the polyps themselves are close to the size of a cyclop-eeze decapod...small.

For feeding been direct feeding them with RM Rotifeast, one to two day hatched artemia, FM MinF and Seafan.

They are small still so we will see how they turn out.

LA posted up on their FB page that one should be going up tonight (between 6-630 est ).

Mike

 

[Lynnmw1208]

there was one in DD today I believe.

 

[Just2Many]

Never seen one until I googled it because of this thread!

 

[moevilla]

I bought the one on Diver's Den. Just got it in. It looks beautiful! About 25% of the polyps have opened, they are white. The body has subtle white 2-3mm white lines embedded in the body. One of the 'branches' or 'arms' broke off during shipping, going to mount this to a piece of rock. I pick up some cyclopeeze at the fish store tomorrow. Fed it a mixture of 'skimmate' and brine shrimp juice from a frozen cube. I also stirred up the sand bed slightly. What's also really cool are the different colored sponges that were on the small piece of rock the coral came on. Hopefully I can keep these alive and have some good growth. I'll keep everyone posted!

 

[Aquabacs]

I bought the one on Diver's Den. Just got it in. It looks beautiful! About 25% of the polyps have opened, they are white. The body has subtle white 2-3mm white lines embedded in the body. One of the 'branches' or 'arms' broke off during shipping, going to mount this to a piece of rock. I pick up some cyclopeeze at the fish store tomorrow. Fed it a mixture of 'skimmate' and brine shrimp juice from a frozen cube. I also stirred up the sand bed slightly. What's also really cool are the different colored sponges that were on the small piece of rock the coral came on. Hopefully I can keep these alive and have some good growth. I'll keep everyone posted!

Best of luck with it. Interested in why you would go the approach of feeding it skimmate and the juice from brine shrimp cubes?
For feeding requirements you are looking to feed them zooplankton, phytoplankton, and detritus. Adding skimmate back into the system might not be the best for stability of your tank parameters (think of skimmer cup overflowing waste back in to the system everyday).

Mike