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After three months without corals, I am so happy to have them again!

I decided that it was time to get corals about two weeks ago after my aquarium has cycled, so yesterday after coming to work (I work at an aquarium store) for a meeting, I came out with six corals. :3

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Three Hammers, an Elegance.

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And a Sinuous Bubble Coral.

The Bubble Coral will get a setup all to its own once... I set it up lol. Whenever that is.

 

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Also got a Sunflower Coral (Tubastrea sp.) that I tossed in the sump to see what happens.

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It does eh! XD

 

The colors of the mint and green are different enough in real life, but in the photo it looks similar. I'm hoping to get a 'fluoro-toxic' and a brown one as well, to give it variety. :3

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LebaneseDlight

What's not to love about hammers? I bet you love torches and frogspawn too :)

 

The hammer to the right seems a little receded, but should bounce back nicely in a protected spot. If your powerhead is to the right of the tank, I'd move that hammer to the other side to shelter it from the flow. Just my $.02.

 

And, I don't mean to harp, but a blue tang in a 9 gallon tank is heartbreaking :(

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What's not to love about hammers? I bet you love torches and frogspawn too :)

 

The hammer to the right seems a little receded, but should bounce back nicely in a protected spot. If your powerhead is to the right of the tank, I'd move that hammer to the other side to shelter it from the flow. Just my $.02.

 

And, I don't mean to harp, but a blue tang in a 9 gallon tank is heartbreaking :(

 

Oh yeah temporary resident, the Regal Tang is. Don't worry it's getting moved.

 

And yeah, I love torches and frogspawns too! :D The hammers (all of them actually) were doing pretty badly at the store, we had a loose chiller on earlier in the week that resulted in temps rising above 30. >< So the hammers are bouncing back - the two greenish ones better than the yellow, but I am keeping an eye out on it.

 

There's no powerhead in there, only the return to the left. Though the water does get pushed to the front right area first (and then bounces downwards and backwards against the corals. The yellow one was the most receded of all three since the store, but do you think that could be having an effect anyways? Since the others seems to be doing pretty well?

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LebaneseDlight

Hard to say, likely just not bouncing back as fast because it was the most receded from the store. But if the other side has lower flow, I don't see the harm in switching it so it's more protected. But I can't imagine the return would be too generating too much flow.

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Hard to say, likely just not bouncing back as fast because it was the most receded from the store. But if the other side has lower flow, I don't see the harm in switching it so it's more protected. But I can't imagine the return would be too generating too much flow.

 

Yeah I guess that's why it's hard to say eh. :/ Not sure if either or both or neither is playing a part. I'll just have to keep an eye on it.

 

Anyone know much about sunflower corals? I haven't really see much from it, kinda wondering if my 'experiment' is doomed to fail from the start. XD

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LebaneseDlight

Sun corals are nonphotosynthetic, as you know, keeping it in your sump. You have to entice it to open for you. It usually does so at night, but you might have to squirt some food(i.e., mysis shrimp with along with the water you thawed it in works well for this) with the pumps off and let it sit there for a while, but it shouldn't be too hard. Once it's trained, it'll open up for you at your normal feeding time. Here's an article that you might find informative http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/12/corals

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Sun corals are nonphotosynthetic, as you know, keeping it in your sump. You have to entice it to open for you. It usually does so at night, but you might have to squirt some food(i.e., mysis shrimp with along with the water you thawed it in works well for this) with the pumps off and let it sit there for a while, but it shouldn't be too hard. Once it's trained, it'll open up for you at your normal feeding time. Here's an article that you might find informative http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2011/12/corals

 

Oh wow, thanks for that! Very cool. Had a read through, will read it more carefully. Gonna go sprinkle some food on it now and see what happens. Then brine shrimp when I get some.

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Also got a Sunflower Coral (Tubastrea sp.) that I tossed in the sump to see what happens.

 

yeah, as mentioned these aren't quite corals that you can just "toss in the sump" (and keep alive).

 

put it in the DT, in an area that's most accessible to you, and preferably with high flow. feed it at least every other day

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yeah, as mentioned these aren't quite corals that you can just "toss in the sump" (and keep alive).

 

put it in the DT, in an area that's most accessible to you, and preferably with high flow. feed it at least every other day

Wait wut? Now I am confused. Why can't they go in sumps again?

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Wait wut? Now I am confused. Why can't they go in sumps again?

 

To clarify, it's ok to go in either the sump or DT, as long as it gets frequent feedings. People often forget about things that are in the sump, which is why I recommended putting it in the DT

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Ah kay. It'll be fine in my sump then. :) The purpose of it is to catch drifting food that flows into the sump anyways. :D Or so I am trying to see if that will work anyways.

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Ah kay. It'll be fine in my sump then. :) The purpose of it is to catch drifting food that flows into the sump anyways. :D Or so I am trying to see if that will work anyways.

 

What I'm trying to say is that this coral needs direct feeding. It wont be fed by random food that makes it's way into the sump

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What I'm trying to say is that this coral needs direct feeding. It wont be fed by random food that makes it's way into the sump

 

What's the difference?

 

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Just to clarify, I understand they need to actually feed on food, but is there a difference between feeding the corals directly and having the food get there anyways? Just different mechanisms of the food reaching the coral is what I can see... but still food reaching the coral nonetheless.

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What's the difference?

 

between certain direct feeding, and uncertain potential feeding? Basically the amount and the frequency.

 

That sun looks kinda starved as it is. It won't do anything to clean your tank of stray food.

 

I have a sun coral. It needs direct feeding. It doesn't really catch stray food.

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Oops, guess you answered just as I was editing it.

 

The amount would be less, but the frequency would be higher though, wouldn't it? The position it is in is where everything flows through first when entering the sump, before any sort of filtration.

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You can try... but I'm really not expecting success. Like I mentioned, the coral already looks kinda underfed -- if you look at it, you can see that the polyps are concave, indicating that it's not getting enough food.

 

Are you seeing it eating and the polyps extending?

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You can try... but I'm really not expecting success. Like I mentioned, the coral already looks kinda underfed -- if you look at it, you can see that the polyps are concave, indicating that it's not getting enough food.

 

Are you seeing it eating and the polyps extending?

 

Well, not yet. I've only just gotten it on Thursday, that was the pic of it from the same day when I got home.

 

I'm waiting for my brine shrimp to arrive to feed it.

 

I've been trying NLS, though haven't manage to do it at night (when it is supposed to open up).

 

Will keep an eye on it, the one bright side is it does look less concaved than the first day.

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No, no polyp extension yet.

 

Hm... maybe I should move it to the display and get it going first, before relegating it back to the sump once I know it is healthy. All the other corals are healthy (even on the first day), so this one should be extending too, right?

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