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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2005Mixed orange and yellow sun coral
I purchased a sun coral which is has yellow polyps on one side, and orange polyps on the other. I have been attempting to train it to eat mysis, and brine shrimp every other night. The yellow polyps have responded great, and extend way out and clearly consume food. The orange polyps however just seem to mildly extend with just the tips of the tentacles seen. It is not clear to me if the orange polyps are actually consuming food or not. It has been two weeks so I am concerned that the orange side will not make it. In a coral like this, I understand that the polyps all are part of one organism. I know there is disagreement whether it is necessary to feed individual polyps or not. Are the orange and yellow polyps two separate organisms, or are they connected inside. If they are connected, will the orange side possibly survive due to the great eating by the yellow side. Everything that I have learned about suncorals is on this page: http://www.melevsreef.com/suncoral.html Marc > I purchased a sun coral which is has yellow polyps on one side, and > orange polyps on the other. I have been attempting to train it to eat [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > are they connected inside. If they are connected, will the orange side > possibly survive due to the great eating by the yellow side.  SignaturePersonal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com Thanks Marc: I actually already have read your page. I really enjoy your practical experience which oftentimes is much more helpful than a ton of theory. My sun coral continues to do well. In fact the orange polyps are progressively extending with time. The yellow polyps extend further than I have seen in any other picture. I feed them a combination of mysis and brine shrimp. I use the brine shrimp because I remove the coral from the tank, and place it in bucket and place an airstone in to circulate the water. The mysis tend to just float on the surface, while the brine actively circulate. That way, I can leave the coral for a while and the brine shrimp get consumed, and just come by every 15 or 20 mins to stir the mysis into the water so that they get eaten too. Quite frankly I do not know if I regret the purchase of this coral because I do find it quite a bit of work to feed it. I like to let the coral eat for at least two hours, so that is about 8 times at least that I have to go check on it. Still I feel personally responsible for this coral, and I would not just give it to someone who does not know how to take care of it, or at least who is willing to learn how to take care of it. I put mine in a large bowl and sit it next to me while I watch TV. The polyps are so used to the routine they start to expand almost immediately after they go into the bowl. .I use an eyedropper and squirt a grated shrimp, fish, squid, clam mixture into the polyps for about 15 minutes and then return them to the tank. By then they look like little swollen orange sausages. QUESTION - Do they also eat phytoplankton or DT's oyster eggs? SignatureAnn R > Thanks Marc: I actually already have read your page. I really enjoy > your practical experience which oftentimes is much more helpful than a [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > how to take care of it, or at least who is willing to learn how to take > care of it. If you look in this month's Coral Magazine, you'll see a picture of a reefette feeding suncorals with what looks like Cyclop Eeze in a syringe. I'm still using frozen mysis (Life Line, I think), and occasionally live baby brine shrimp. http://www.melevsreef.com/pics/food/bbs/how_to_bbs.html I cover mine with a dome (upper section of a 2-liter bottle), and squirt the food into the dome. 5 minutes later, I do it again. 5 minutes after that I do it one more time. Using a timer really helps make sure I stay on top of it. One hour later I pull the domes off the suncorals. I was doing this every other day, but I've grown lacsidasical about it over the past couple of months. Now I do it once or twice a week. However, I think I'll resume this method next week again. Since I feed my tank at 9:00 to 9:30 pm, this is 30 minutes before the lights go out. At that time the suncorals open up. Food is still in the water at that time, because I have the skimmer shut off for at least from 10pm to 11pm nightly. Marc > I put mine in a large bowl and sit it next to me while I watch TV. The > polyps are so used to the routine they start to expand almost immediately [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > QUESTION - Do they also eat phytoplankton or DT's oyster eggs? SignaturePersonal Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/oanda/index.html Business Page: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com Marine Hobbyist: http://www.melevsreef.com |
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