sun coral

[mark88]

just wondering how often everyone feeds their sun coral?

[Snowsurfer]

Once sometimes twice a week. With mysis for every polyp

[evilervin]

2-4 times daily:crazy:. Currently with haddock, red plankton, cylopleeze and mysis (+ amino acids and vits). :)

Roger

[Wh00pS]

Every 2nd day for mine.
Frozen cyclopeeze and mysis mixed.

[Tetley]

Hi,

Every day with Mysis, Cyclopeze, Cockle, Mussle, and a little haddock.

My Hammers/Bubble and Brains aslo enjoy :thumbsup:

ATB

[CHRIS D]

Every other day with gammarus shrimp and cyclpoeeze soaked in New Era Liposome spray.

Chris

[sky1ine]

Everyday up to three times a day. mix of mysis, krill, mussell, cod, marine mix, BBS. Live brine shrimp etc etc etc - all soaked in new era vits and cyclopeeze for as long as possible.

[Snowsurfer]

Wow im really slacking :)

[damianandrew]

once every 2 days with mysis or brine but feed cylopeeze to the tank for my scolymia
need to find a some one that sells cyclopeeze in the frozen bars?

[tonyflow]

Coral Garden Aquatics do IIRC

[fragman]

twice a wk. brine and flake.

[fragman]

Just to add some people think you have to feed it every day and i dont think it makes any diffrence. Growth rate on mine is fine just make sure all the polyps get a good feeding now and again.

[popsock]

Yup agree, I've tried feeding them to death and then only once/twice a week and it doesn't make much difference unless you're trying to get them to spawn. They'll also feed every night on whatever is floating around the tank.

[sky1ine]

Just to add some people think you have to feed it every day and i dont think it makes any diffrence. Growth rate on mine is fine just make sure all the polyps get a good feeding now and again.

Just thought i'd add - i started when i first got mine to feed a couple of times a week. It survived - and looked pretty but that was it.

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2007Q2/19-04-07.jpg


But that was all really it just survived. I bumped my feeding up on all my suns to as good as every day and after a week they looked like this:

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2007Q2/04-05-07_223.jpg

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2007Q2/31-05-07_202.jpg

http://www.ultimatereef.net/uploader/2007Q2/31-05-07_20.jpg


You can't deny how much better they look for it!!!! And for the record brine shrimp is totally useless as a food source for tubastrea aswell. Ditch it and get some mysis - then enrich the food heavily before use. Getting a sun coral to open - isn't a hard task - keeping it open for a few months isn't that hard either - keeping it alive for a LONG period of time is very very hard in my opinion. Something you'll probably find out if you keep on feeding brine to it.

Sorry if i sound like im going on - but i think all tubastrea need at least 4 feeds a week. Mine wouldn't survive on a couple of feedings of flake a week - i know that much

Just my thoughts though.
Marc

[CHRIS D]

As said earlier, I've been feeding mine every other day and it looks great.
Now, I'm going on holiday newt week for two weeks, will it be alright without target feeding for this period?
I'd planned to feed it every night this week before I go away, then just get my dad to chuck a pinch of cyclopeeze into the tank every evening when he feeds the fish. He's happy to feed the fish twice a day which is great, but I can't really ask him to keep getting his arms wet.
Any thoughts?

Thanks

Chris

[evilervin]

Hi Chris,

Now, I'm going on holiday newt week for two weeks, will it be alright without target feeding for this period?The coral will survive, but you may observe some tightening of the coenosarc (the corals tissue), or possibly some recession on any very thin areas... basically nothing you cant (hopefully) fix with some descent feeds when you return.

Personally though, I would ask your Dad to get his arm wet and feed the coral if it is open when he is at your house feeding the fish.

Roger

[poohpouri]

Hi I went on hols for 2wks and left a auto feeder with flake my sun corals where fine and heathly when i got back. I think just as long as water paras and everything is in tip top cond they should be fine

(i know sun corls dont take flake)

[CHRIS D]

Hi Roger,

Many thanks for your input, it's much appreciated. Will go to work on him, but it's reassuring to know that worst ways it should survive.

Poohpouri - thanks also.

Chris

[Tetley]

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa113/Tetley_bucket/Corals/th_DSC00001.jpg (http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa113/Tetley_bucket/Corals/DSC00001.jpg)

with feeding every two days

ATB