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fishlovr
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Anyone else have one of these? What kind of luck are you having with it? My daughter got one 3 days ago and it's starting to eat! I think it's pretty cool......
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fishlovr
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Picked it up locally here in Des Moines, Iowa......She paid $40.00 for it
She's really excited as after giving it a "food bath" the first night the little polyps started to come out! It's the next coral on my list! You must really baby them and feed them daily or every other day. She takes it out of the tank in a little tupperware bowl and feeds it Prime Reef by blowing the water around with a turkey baster......works great on the orange ones too Glad you like the pic.....thanks for the reply.
She's really excited as after giving it a "food bath" the first night the little polyps started to come out! It's the next coral on my list! You must really baby them and feed them daily or every other day. She takes it out of the tank in a little tupperware bowl and feeds it Prime Reef by blowing the water around with a turkey baster......works great on the orange ones too Glad you like the pic.....thanks for the reply.
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fishlovr
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Wow, Gen! I thought our prices in Des Moines were terrible.....I guess things could be worse! Too bad this hobby has to be so expensive, huh? It's worth it though
j21kickster
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Nice- never seen black before(in person)
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fishlovr
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I guess my daughter got a good deal on hers It was attached to a nice piece of aquacultured rock too. I'd never seen one in person either. I saw it first but didn't have the bucks with me, so she got it! I think they are such beautiful corals.....I just love my orange and yellow ones Black is such a nice contrast in the tank.......it's on my wish list now......
It was attached to a nice piece of aquacultured rock too. I'd never seen one in person either. I saw it first but didn't have the bucks with me, so she got it! I think they are such beautiful corals.....I just love my orange and yellow ones Black is such a nice contrast in the tank.......it's on my wish list now......
pyro383
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Hey Gen, where on LI are you? I know a fellow reefer who can get them for you at $25. Reach me at pyro383@yahoo.com if interested
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fishlovr
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Hey, Slick, my tank is a 58 gallon. My daughter's is a 30. If you live in Muscatine and want to be part of our reef get togethers you should contact jwmozdzer@mchsi.com to get on the mailing list. She heads up our meetings and we have one about every 4 months here in Des Moines. Usually they are on a Saturday
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fishlovr
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Really pretty, Dinhouse They look like the ones I call yellow in my tank. Here's what the ones I call orange in my tank look like. I guess there are white ones too!
They look like the ones I call yellow in my tank. Here's what the ones I call orange in my tank look like. I guess there are white ones too!
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fishlovr
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Email Janna and find out what's going on.....the next meeting is going to be November 2.....they will be touring 3 or 4 homes to see different tanks. Janna is in the process of getting maps printed and sent out. One home is on the East side and 3 are on the West. That's as much as I know.......
angelofish
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I could be wrong but Ill ask the dumb question anyway. I ve read that sun coral dont need any light and have to be trained to open during the day. Is this true?
j21kickster
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true true- you need to be sure to feen them though- enriched brine- zooplankton and you can also make your own coral foods too
reef-addict
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I think this specimen is called Tubestrea Sun, and I guess the black version is a recesive gened tubestrea. I used to have one of these and learned that they were difficult as hell to take care of. Any advice on how to feed them, what do you use, brine shrimp? Live or dead? please let me know because I would love to get both of these, black and orange
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fishlovr
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ReefAddict.....My daughter and I have had great luck with our sun corals feeding them a whole cube of frozen "Prime Reef." Sometimes I give mine a cube of Krill cut up really fine. They also like occasional live brine. Mostly it's just the Prime Reef though. We take them out of the tank in a small tupperware bowl just barely deep enough to cover them in tank water. Then we swirl the water around with a turkey baster every 10 to 15 minutes. It used to take about and hour and a half for them to eat. Now it takes about 15 to 20 minutes. They don't eat too much at first until you get them trained and they get strong enough to open fully. We did this every night at first and now since they are trained, we feed them every other to every third evening. After they are done eating we just place them back in the tank You can set the little tupperware bowl in the bathroom sink and add a little luke warm tap water to the basin if you are worried about temperatures cooling off too much. I used to do this, but now I just let the bowl sit out on the counter the whole time. They are really tough little corals and have not seemed to notice the temp change when I return them to the tank. They are hardier than most people think. I avoid poluting my tank by feeding them in the little bowls. They are really pigs and require a lot of food once you get them trained. Enough so that I know my tank would be poluted and they still wouldn't have their fill if I were not to place them in the bowls. That's why the "food bath" in the bowl works great! Hope you have good luck too
You can set the little tupperware bowl in the bathroom sink and add a little luke warm tap water to the basin if you are worried about temperatures cooling off too much. I used to do this, but now I just let the bowl sit out on the counter the whole time. They are really tough little corals and have not seemed to notice the temp change when I return them to the tank. They are hardier than most people think. I avoid poluting my tank by feeding them in the little bowls. They are really pigs and require a lot of food once you get them trained. Enough so that I know my tank would be poluted and they still wouldn't have their fill if I were not to place them in the bowls. That's why the "food bath" in the bowl works great! Hope you have good luck too