My First Coral

[sea_note]

Hey guys - I just bought my first coral the other night at the lfs. When I got it home I accidentally dumped all except for about 1 cup of water out of the bag. Needless to say acclimation time was of no use at that point so after about 15 minutes I put him in the tank(29 bio w/30 lbs LR). I've tried to read up on corals but still feel like I know nothing about them at this point. The coral is a green eyed zoo attached to a rock about the size of a fist.
Questions:
1. What are the chances of survival?
2. How often do I feed it and what do I feed it?
3. Can someone tell me about Calcium or anything else I need to make this thing survive.
4. Flow, lighting, etc...????
Help

 

[sharkeater]

well how is the coral doing now? is it opened up at all yet or is it shriveled up and look like its dying, and you can feed it live photo plankton that some lfs carrys, you just keep it in your frigde, it is kind of expensive and it only lives for a month but worth it, or you could judt get some Kent Marine supplements and give those to you tank

 

[sea_note]

I have one polyp that opens up to almost the size of a quarter and is very green inside and has all the little tentacles around it sticking out pretty far. All the other polyps (about 100) are open but I'm not sure if they are open all the way, maybe the size of a dime and the tentacles are not really sticking out. I just read this and can tell I have no idea what I'm doing.
What about all this calcium, phosphate, blah blah blah that I hear everyone talking about????

 

[hot883]

Most zoanthids need only temp acclimation. They should be just fine.

 

[wax32]

In a typical hobbiest's tank zoanthids don't really need any feeding since our tanks are dirty nasty and they get most of their food from the dirty water (caused by feeding fish). Yours should be fine as long as you have enough light. Most zoanthids don't need a whole lot.

 

[jmick]

Originally Posted by wax32
In a typical hobbiest's tank zoanthids don't really need any feeding since our tanks are dirty nasty and they get most of their food from the dirty water (caused by feeding fish). Yours should be fine as long as you have enough light. Most zoanthids don't need a whole lot.
Agreed, my zoanthids grow like weeds and all they get is plenty of light and fish poop! Wanted to throw this in as well. If you do regular water changes most suppliments (with the exception of Cal) are a waste of money.