brain coral question
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brainrush
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Are you feeding it?
I have one under much less intense lighting that that (about 192watts) and it is doing great. I do feed it every other night, though.
Like yours, mine was beginning to receed on the edges. After I started feeding it, though, it has regrown in the receeded spots and continues to add new growth.
I feed it "Boyds Vita Diet" pellets at night when its little feder tenticles are out.
I have one under much less intense lighting that that (about 192watts) and it is doing great. I do feed it every other night, though.
Like yours, mine was beginning to receed on the edges. After I started feeding it, though, it has regrown in the receeded spots and continues to add new growth.
I feed it "Boyds Vita Diet" pellets at night when its little feder tenticles are out.
rberhow
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We have the same kind and it is a pig, when it comes to feeding time. Like brainrush said, just lay some small food on it when it is looking all fuzzy which sometimes can take a few hours after lights out for ours. I usually give ours mysis or bloodworms but anything meaty and small will work fine. It can take awhile for it to eat them and it works best if you can shut off your powerheads so they don't blow the food off. As for the turning white though, I would check your calcium and alkalinity levels as well since these are LPS and need the calcium to be stable in the tank. Also, what kind of flow is hitting it? They like a moderate amount of flow but nothing too drastic. Also, I see that it is at the bottom of your tank. They tend to be light hogs as almost all LPS are, so moving it up may help as well. Posting all your water parameters would help a lot though, the actual values, not just good.
sfe
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Originally Posted by rberhow
We have the same kind and it is a pig, when it comes to feeding time. Like brainrush said, just lay some small food on it when it is looking all fuzzy which sometimes can take a few hours after lights out for ours. I usually give ours mysis or bloodworms but anything meaty and small will work fine. It can take awhile for it to eat them and it works best if you can shut off your powerheads so they don't blow the food off. As for the turning white though, I would check your calcium and alkalinity levels as well since these are LPS and need the calcium to be stable in the tank. Also, what kind of flow is hitting it? They like a moderate amount of flow but nothing too drastic. And how far up in the tank is it? Posting all your water parameters would help.
I am sure his calcium levels are fine. Look at all of his coraline algae growth.
We have the same kind and it is a pig, when it comes to feeding time. Like brainrush said, just lay some small food on it when it is looking all fuzzy which sometimes can take a few hours after lights out for ours. I usually give ours mysis or bloodworms but anything meaty and small will work fine. It can take awhile for it to eat them and it works best if you can shut off your powerheads so they don't blow the food off. As for the turning white though, I would check your calcium and alkalinity levels as well since these are LPS and need the calcium to be stable in the tank. Also, what kind of flow is hitting it? They like a moderate amount of flow but nothing too drastic. And how far up in the tank is it? Posting all your water parameters would help.
I am sure his calcium levels are fine. Look at all of his coraline algae growth.
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tizzo
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They absolutely do have stinging sweepers. You can see the feeder tenticles, the small half inch ones, then also one sweeper. Every time it touches the brown digitata next to it, the polyps that have been touched die.
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tizzo
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The feeders come out on their own at night, but if you put food on it, it will quickly show you it's feeders no matter what time it is...
I feed mine mysid and cyclop eeze.
Thanks rberhow.
I feed mine mysid and cyclop eeze.
Thanks rberhow.