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Hi, ive just puchased a sun coral but for got to ask how often to feed/ what to feed. I know they need to fed after lights out, can they be fed with just the actnics on or everything off all together.
Hello Mate I Feed My Sun On Cyclopeez And Mysis Srimp Krill You Can Get Them To Feed In The Day Have You Got Some Pics:d
I gave it a bump, as it should be a sticky
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=195870
Everything you could ever want to know
Also try searching sun coral..toms of threads on here.
Hello Mate I Feed My Sun On Cyclopeez And Mysis Srimp Krill You Can Get Them To Feed In The Day Have You Got Some Pics:d
How many times a week do you feed it and how do you get them to feed in the day.
Also how do i put a piccy up on here.
Hi I feed my sun coral 2- 3 times a week with frozen and cyclopezee I find that when I feed my fish the sun coral opens up but feed normally when blue actinics are on.
lets try this ( sorry not very good camera )
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2006Q4/models.jpg
ChrisBFish
11-02-07, 19:00
The reading we did before getting ours varied enormously - some things said each polyp needed feeding at least twice a week, some said daily. Ours start opening up when food goes in the water, so get fed once they're opened properly, no matter what the lights are doing. We give them the same frozen mix as the fish get, but often supplement it with some mysis and so far they seem to be doing fine, growing well...
Mastic,
Dont want to be a party pooper, but, going by the picture you've got a heavily starved coral thats going to require a lot of t.l.c
assuming its still capable of expending;
looking at it, its going to be reluctent to expend, try gently blowing a small amount of frozen cube food juice and a wee pinch of re-hydrated cyclopezee, over the 'cups' of the coral with a turkey baster.
If after a few days it still fails to expand add a small amount of a liquid amino acid supplement that contains; Cystine, Glycine and Glutamic acid (Glutathione).
(assuming its now expanding)
Your going to have to feed EVERY polyp on this little fella at least every two days (daily if possible), due to the excessive coenosarc loss (tissue), and malnutrition. Doing this for a few weeks should anable new coenosarc growth as well as helping to replenish it energy reserves. IMO soak any foods used in a liquid vitamin and amino acid productsuch as Seachem Reef plus or simular.
Quick note; watch for algae growth on the exposed skeleton.
If you have any question please ask.
Gog
PS. Why do LFS sell sun corals in this state to inexperienced keepers:mad::mad:... or to anyone for that matter... feed it you lazy B*****ds:mad::mad: (directed towards LFS, not mastic)
Thank you for the good input evilervin. Getting a bit confused here ( still a noob at the mo,9 months doing this ).
try gently blowing a small amount of frozen cube food juice and a wee pinch of re-hydrated cyclopezee
I have mysis, marine mix, brine shrimp, cockles in frozen but dont understand the food juice bit. I have powdered cyclopeze.
liquid amino acid supplement
Where do i get this from?
I paid £14 for this and they said it was a sun coral so i thought i was getting a bargain because i have read they can be quite expensive. Now i know why it was cheap:( :(
I have mysis, marine mix, brine shrimp, cockles in frozen but dont understand the food juice bit. I have powdered cyclopeze
Defrost some cubes of mysis and brine shimp in a small tub / cup.
There will be some liquid, with the now thawed cubes of food, seprate this liquid form the shrimp and re-hydrate your cyclopezee with it.
add a turkey basters worth of tank water. (to the cyclopezee)
add a few mushed up shrimp.
Suck up with baster, and gengle release over the coral.
liquid amino acid supplement
Where do i get this from?
you could use Seachem Reef Plus but there are others, have a look on the coral culture and stm websites they both stock amino acid supplements.
I paid £14 for this and they said it was a sun coral so i thought i was getting a bargain because i have read they can be quite expensive
It is a sun coral, looks like Tubastraea coccinea. As for price, a T. coccinea that size, in good health, would be around the £25 mark (IMO)
HTH
Gog
I agree with Ervin, this suncoral has seen better days, naughty lfs
mine, just to give you an idea.
A blurry pic that was used for something else, just ignore the red circles. lol
http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2006Q4/sun coral 13-12-2006.jpg
Goldfishbouy
27-03-10, 13:22
Iv recently brought a sun coral but cant get it to open, it looks like lots of swolen yellow lumps like it wants to but not yet can any 1 help please as i cant feed it closed iv tried puting a little food round it hopping it will come out when i feed the duncans
Goldfishbouy
27-03-10, 13:24
mine are looking like the pic above
Try putting a half-coke bottle over it - keeps the food in circulation around the sun and encourages it to open, as well as protecting it from shrimp, fish etc. If that doesn't work, put it in a container full of tank water, float in tank/sump and flood it with food for about an hour, before returning to tank. Repeat daily until it recovers and feeds readily, then about 2-3x per week in the tank should suffice.
Goldfishbouy
27-03-10, 19:25
cool thanks for the advice think it may be lacking flow iv tried redirecting the flow to see if that helps it was really healthy when i got it just seems not very happy about something
sea_monkey
22-04-10, 13:12
Read the link. very detailed and useful.
I have one question, which I'm geuninely interested in though - Do they really need to be fed directly though? Of is this just another 'belt and braces' approach.
Would they not get nourishment from the cyclopeese / mysis particles hanging arund in the water column after a standard feed of the fish.
I've seen it stated that hammers/frogspawn and torches should be fed directly and then seen elsewhere people stating they've never fed them and they get their food from the water content...
Peculiar_Clown
22-04-10, 13:25
My answer would be no, I have sun colonies which have self propogated, many have never been fed directly and they are flourishing. Somer of the parent colonies get fed directly and seem to struggle.
I can only summise that ther self sown colonies have settled where ample tank food can be captured from the flow.
I've also never made sure every head has food either.
My answer would be no, I have sun colonies which have self propogated, many have never been fed directly and they are flourishing. Somer of the parent colonies get fed directly and seem to struggle.
I can only summise that ther self sown colonies have settled where ample tank food can be captured from the flow.
I've also never made sure every head has food either.
Don't agree 100% but know what you mean. Even in my nps tank, which is heavily fed with plankton, cyclopeeze etc, the suns need target feeding to do well - but even so, a couple struggle, particularly one of my blacks. However, got loads of sun babies around the tank and the ones that are growing are the ones directly under the food drip (I feed constantly, 24/7) and fuge. The ones elsewhere have only started visibly growing since I started target feeding them occasionally. So on the whole, would say it's a bad idea not to target feed, especially in a normal reef tank where the quantities of food in the water column are nowhere near high enough.
As for whether to feed every head - I tend to flood mine with food, so every head gets something anyway, but did find with one sun that I always fed in the tank, that the heads on the back (never target fed) starved and faded away, until I fragged them off and fed them. So wouldn't worry about feeding every (connected) head every time, but would make sure they all get fed at some point.
TH west mids
07-08-11, 13:11
what about shade or light, i have picked one up today and was told it didn't like light it needed to be in shade.
Thanks.
Kwak Rider
07-08-11, 23:23
what about shade or light, i have picked one up today and was told it didn't like light it needed to be in shade.
Thanks.
Yep, they don't need light ideal for caves/ overhangs etc. I only target feed mine once a week and it's been doing fine for the last couple of years. :thumbsup:
sawyer18uk
11-02-12, 11:53
After seeing this i think i may have a go at keeping theese does anyone know a good supplyer in kent or a reputable online store that i could get theese from?
My suns.
Suns corals are amazingly beautiful corals and so easy to keep providing you feed them regular. Kept well fed they will reproduce and spread. The only problem apart from feeding them (which is easy enough to do) can be getting them to open when first introduced to the aquarium then when you want them to open. These corals are night feeders so are mainly open during night time to feed but they can be trained to open during the day. Feed them at least every other day or so but if yiou can feed them each day they will reproduce even faster. This is my sun coral not long after I had fed it and it opened up looking for more food. Notice the coral budding from the base with lots of baby ones open.
http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg378/lesmelling/River%20and%20Reef%2094L/Suncoral.jpg
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