Let's do a count on Sun coral owners

[jerthunter]

Looking much better. It looks like you have the freeze dried cyclopeeze right? I find that it tends to float more than the frozen kind, but it works. Now once it is open try feeding each polyp some larger pieces of food, like brine or mysis shrimp.

 

[newtoreef_tank]

it's the frozen not freeze dried it work good. Price was a little high but it works so i don't mind.

 

[kaybee]

Here are mine (two sun coral types adjacent to each other).
Fed about every 3 or 4 days (frozen cyclopeeze, selcon-fed live brine shrimp, etc).
About once every 7-10 days I relocate it to a container where it's fed a bunch of frozen mysis shrimp (2-4 mysis per polyp).
Additionally it occasionally captures food in the tank meant for the fish as well as tiny live shrimp dwelling in the tank.

 

[mmf1968]

My sun coral is not doing well and I don't know what else to do

. Can anyone help me nourish it back to health? I have tried everything. I have hovered over tank for an hour with a turkey baster feeding it live brine shrimp one by one. It still disintegrating and bleaching.

 

[bronco300]

as far as fraggin goes for these sun coral...are they as simple as i assume, just break apart? and cut the skin between the polyps?

 

[theappe3]

Originally Posted by MMF1968
My sun coral is not doing well and I don't know what else to do

. Can anyone help me nourish it back to health? I have tried everything. I have hovered over tank for an hour with a turkey baster feeding it live brine shrimp one by one. It still disintegrating and bleaching.

Sometimes they are so far gone that they cant be brought back...

 

[jerthunter]

Originally Posted by Bronco300
as far as fraggin goes for these sun coral...are they as simple as i assume, just break apart? and cut the skin between the polyps?
I have never done it but I would imagine so.. Sometimes you can find polyps where the flesh between them is already seperated which would make it easier to frag.

 

[bronco300]

i never have so i wanted to make sure that there wasnt something in that base i shouldnt be cutting, but they looked like zoo mats so i just figured theyre probably the same

 

[jerthunter]

Well I am thinking about fragging mine tonight since there is one pieces that gets in the way of my feeding cover. I'll let you know what I find out.
I believe they are actually hard corals so there might be some tissue inside the skeleton but we'll see..

 

[jerthunter]

Well I just fragged off a piece with 5 polyps that had a space between it and the main colony and I didn't run into any problems, now I just have to figure out what I want to do with the frag.

 

[jerthunter]

Here is the frag, it opened up shortly after I broke it off so I imagine it wasn't bother by the fragging.

 

[bronco300]

so how exactly did you do it then, just slit the tissue between polyps? are they indeed like zoos or is their skeleton etc under?

 

[jerthunter]

There is a little bit of skeleton but as far as I can tell it doesn't go deeper than the polyp so as long as you break it between polyps you should be ok. I just used a screwdriver between the polyps and hit it with a hammer. it broke off nicely and I didn't have to cut the skin in my case because there was already a gap between the polyps. If you have to cut the skin you might want to use an iodine dip to make sure it doesn't get infected.

 

[bronco300]

sweet thanks bud!

 

[jerthunter]

No problem.
I put the frag higher in my tank in some heavy flow and it seems to be enjoying it alot, the polyps are extremely open... Maybe they like alot of flow.