whats this beautiful coral!!!??

[ROB1988]

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o29/gorgeous1083/2ee1_12.jpg


please can you tell me what it is and if anyone has any for sale, thanks!!

[maestro]

Its known as a sun coral, needs regular feeding.

[abyss]

sun coral, quite common, need some looking after though, especialy when feeding

R

[abyss]

:banghead: i need to type faster:laugh:

R

[ROB1988]

hehe, do they need a special kind off feed or are they ok on the liquid stuff/ frozen? i am realy interested in it as it looks fantastic

[hairyduck]

I find they like cyclopeeze best

[ROB1988]

ah rite, i found one on ebay that does'nt look bad.currently about £16

[matty29]

Ebays fine, but you don't always get what's advertised, and I'm sure your LFS could get one for you at a reasonable price, mine usually sells them for £20-28 which would probably wwork out the same £££ by the time you've added postage.

[kizkiz]

Before you buy one, read this...
http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/showthread.php?t=195870

[sky1ine]

Everythink you'd need to know on these is in that link from kizkiz but for the record:

yeah tubastrea are really pretty, But they need regular feeding at least 3-4 times a week in my opinion. For the record i feed mine everyday. Normal frozen food wont sustain them, it needs to be heavily enriched with amino acids and vits. I use cyclopeeze mearly to trigger them to open. Im not sure but wouldn't have thought that alone would be enough to sustain them (but i could be wrong)

There not the easiest of corals to keep - but not the hardest.

I feed: quater of a teaspoon of cycloppeze, 2ml of new era vits. 3 mini spoons of tmc imuvit. 2inch square cube of brine shrimp - 2 marine mix cubes (and occasionally some white fish, mussels, krill as a treat) Thats all soaked for as long as possible up to 24 hours.

If you do get one, use a turkey baster to feed - it makes it much easier to target each polyp.

Just my 2p's worth :o

[ROB1988]

thats great advice i must say, thankyou. well i work at wards garden centre in coal aston near chesterfield and we have a decent aquatics store so i will give them a try.

[Kev s]

I've has a sun for a while now (both green and yellow) and as mentioned the cyclopeze (frozen bar) gets the best feeding response.

I feed heavily, so my suns have done very well but as mentioned you need to have a system capable of dealing with high food loads or target feeding them!

Kev

[ROB1988]

ah rite, i better get hold of some cyclopeze too then. are there any other useful foods for it? i know this is a different thing but what about anemone food, so far i have just given it prawn and am going to get some lancefish, if you could give any ideas that'd be great

[instantsquid]

Hi Rob - maybe post your question in the "Anemone World" section of the forum.
We'd really need to know what type of anemone you have. Anemones, like most corals (sun corals being one of the exceptions!), contain symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae. This allows them to gain "food" by exposure to light. In short, the algae is a simple plant which through the magic of photosynthesis is able to generate food which it "shares" with the anemone or coral it is living within.

Certainly anemones will consume large chunks of food (prawn, lancefish, etc.) but they will also grab much smaller particles of food from the water column - in their natural environment, big lumps of meaty food very rarely fall into their mouths!

If you have the appropriate lighting for your anemone, and your tank has a healthy population of assorted "critters" (shrimps, copepods, and so on) you should not need to feed your anemone too frequently. I have a large Bubbletip Anemone that never gets target fed, yet it continues to grow at an alarming rate!