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how do sun polyps grow?

post #1 of 8
7/16/08 at 7:53am
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just wondering, how do they grow? do they spread a mat onto another rock like GSP, or do they get larger by growing their internal skeleton kinda like a bubble?
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post #2 of 8
7/16/08 at 2:59pm
They spawn, and then the babies land on other rocks and form a small polyp, and then bud from there. I think it has something to do with the moons personally. But once they cover the whole rock or so, then theyll spawn. I had a large sun coral in my tank and I sold it, but about 2 weeks later I had baby sun coral polyps in the lower flow areas of my tank.

Its been about 4 months since and they havent grown, but I havent been spotfeeding them.
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post #3 of 8
7/16/08 at 3:46pm
Originally Posted by paintballer768 View Post
They spawn, and then the babies land on other rocks and form a small polyp, and then bud from there. I think it has something to do with the moons personally. But once they cover the whole rock or so, then theyll spawn. I had a large sun coral in my tank and I sold it, but about 2 weeks later I had baby sun coral polyps in the lower flow areas of my tank.

Its been about 4 months since and they havent grown, but I havent been spotfeeding them.
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post #4 of 8
7/16/08 at 11:11pm
they also form new heads out of their mat they form...
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post #5 of 8
7/19/08 at 7:50am
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cool. thanks.
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post #6 of 8
7/21/08 at 11:44pm
Originally Posted by paintballer768 View Post
They spawn, and then the babies land on other rocks and form a small polyp, and then bud from there. I think it has something to do with the moons personally. But once they cover the whole rock or so, then theyll spawn. I had a large sun coral in my tank and I sold it, but about 2 weeks later I had baby sun coral polyps in the lower flow areas of my tank.

Its been about 4 months since and they havent grown, but I havent been spotfeeding them.
did you ever stop to think they werent growing because they were in low flow areas?
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post #7 of 8
7/22/08 at 1:49am
Originally Posted by dogfaceman View Post
did you ever stop to think they werent growing because they were in low flow areas?
Flow doesnt make much of a difference to suns, just as long as its not insanely fast. I think it moreso had to do with the lack of food they were getting because I didnt feel like taking the time to feed them, and I dont have cyclopeeze anymore.
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post #8 of 8
3/31/10 at 11:29pm
sorry, Forgot to log off and my dumba$$ brother got on and wrote that
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