Pagoda cup coral

[clarkiiclo]

I was just wondering how everyone else's pagoda cups look.
Mine the "mouths" stand up about 1/2" so far up that they wave in the current!
A LFS here has a nice show tank and they have a pagoda too. It doesnt have near the extenison that mine does.
Is this normal? I feed them often so I know he isnt starving.
Just wanted to see some other examples.......

 

[clarkiiclo]

bump

 

[nic_u812]

what type of light are you running? How high are they in the tank? When a coral "reaches" as you put it, they are trying to get more light... imo anyhow... It might look cool, but might not be in the coral's best interest to "reach"

 

[clarkiiclo]

4x96W 10K and an 03 atinic.
It is very high in the tank.
I know I need to add more light. But im poor.

 

[birdy]

Here is mine, the polyp extension on mine is usually pretty far, they wave in the current.

 

[clarkiiclo]

Yeah that is close, the poylps on mine open a bit further. I like the color of yours! Mine is pink.
I will try to get a pic tonight.

 

[clarkiiclo]

I found a pic! The polyps extend even furtther than this.
Excuse the algae on the glass

 

[birdy]

Nice! the polyps on mine come out farther than in the picture but that is pretty close.

 

[clarkiiclo]

Well it is nice to know Im not the only one.
When I first got it the polyps would not extend very far at all.
It has taken it about 3 months to get like this.

 

[dburr]

Mine looks like birdys but more polyps.

 

[wrassecal]

All pics of healthy pagodas

The one I had would never fully open and finally died. This are one case where you want polyp extension.

 

[tru conch]

heres a pic of mine. its very high up in the tank, underneath a 250 w HQI MH, so its not starving for light.

 

[clarkiiclo]

In the morning mine extends like dburr's.
WOW Tru! That is really nice!!