Suns: black, yellow and orange: diff. care?

[dendro982RC]

1. Making T. diaphana open for a feeding first time.
I have another rescue case, black sun coral, after having good results with lemon yellow sun coral with high polyps skeletons (not dyed, BTW, what is it - T. aurea?).

For yellow and orange suns was enough short term container feeding, the black one is very slow to open - unusual, IMHE.

Target feeding in the tank, squid juice and a lot of cyclop eeze repeatedly had no effect. What else you did to make the T. diaphana open the first time?

2. Difference between yellow and orange suns:
after container feeding, returning inflated the orange one was without any problems, but when I tried to feed yellow and black suns in container, removing the yellow with inflated polyps caused darker spots on the soft tissue of polyps.

From previous readings, I was sure, that all tubastrea species, except T. miracantha, are all the same: simple, straightforward and reliable. Is there anything I should know about their differences? To avoid the future unpleasant surprises.

Thanks.

[LTD]

My Black Sun (T. miracantha I believe) are virtually bullet-proof.

Halides off, polyps out. Flood the tank every few days with Lobster eggs, red plankton, rotifers, mysis.

Job done.

[kizkiz]

From reading this board, and from my own experience....
micanthra are a bit harder. They seem to require daily feeds.....otherwise they suffer
Once you get them going i thnk they're ok, but certainly seem harder to get going

[Lost Boys]

My Black Sun (T. miracantha I believe) are virtually bullet-proof.

Halides off, polyps out. Flood the tank every few days with Lobster eggs, red plankton, rotifers, mysis.

Job done.

My black suns are the same, out every night when the tank lights go off, out even when the room lights are on so i can at least still see them, feed mine every two to three days by spraying food over them.

:)

[dendro982RC]

And to make it open the first time?..
What worked for orange and for yellow sun corals - cyclop eeze and container feeding - doesn't work for T. diaphana so far. Only 2 polyps are opening.
Continue container feedings every day, until opens?

[kizkiz]

I would say yes, personally
Mine took a few days to settle
not uch else you can do tbh...keep feeding

[dendro982RC]

Thanks, will continue container feeding.
5 days already, but only two were with container feeding.

[dendro982RC]

Already much better: 12 polyps are opened. It took 1.5 hrs instead of usual 40 min.
Thank you all!

[spilly]

I drop a cube of mysis in a little tank water, let it melt , then squirt some of the liquid over my black sun with a turkey baster, After 10 mins all polyps are open so i then squirt the mysis onto the polyps....:thumbsup:

[dendro982RC]

:thanks:
Was yours very skinny, when it started to open after mysis squirting, or plump, in a good health?

9 more polyps opened, total 21 opened - I'm on the right track. Only the back one (diaphana) a very slow opener.
I'm continue with in tank feedings.

[spilly]

It was just a small frag when i first got it , only about half a dozen polyps but now its grown to about twenty, thats in about five months.

[dendro982RC]

Glad to hear that, excellent growth rate!
Are you feeding every day?