My new Suncoral

I picked up a beautiful Sun Coral last week and I thought I would show him off by showing you guys some pics of feeding time for sunny taken this afternoon:

This was taken a 2pm...FTS


A close up shot...



A closer up shot...lol



P.S.....after the Ocean Spray low tech feeding apparatus was removed.

Very nice Frosty. Not many things as nice as a fully expanded sun.

Thanks, I've been feeding it midday so hopefully it gets trained to expand and blossom during the times I can enjoy it instead of the middle of the night by flashlight..lol

very very nice coral! i'd love to have one myself but im gunna hold off on the corals for now maby for about a month to let this tank settle lol. dont you have to feed every head on these guys? or are you just using a liquid feed and putting it in the bottle

I use a mix of various meaty frozen foods and by injecting it into the bottle at different angles it disperses all over the coral and nearly every head gets food. I feed daily so if a couple heads dont get fed today they usually get it the next day.

do you feed all the corals that way? or just a certian few? i mean im feeding mine by dosing the tank with rotifers everyday and then a coralife gourmet gumbo invert/coral food which is a liquid that smells funny... lol and thats about once every 3 days

No, the sun coral is the only one that gets bottle fed and the lps just get a direct shot from the squirt feeder and the rest draw from whats floating in the water column.

LOL ocean spray.

I like the feeding bottle idea

I'll be trying a go at sunpolyp's again one day

Looking for the bright orange/yellowish orange one's anywhere that might have this?

any other colour's you have seen that are as nice as those?

My sun coral came from NAFB in Scarborough and they had bright orange, bright Yellow and a few shades in between. They have the best selection of Sun corals in the GTA.

will head up that way one day heard some ok stuff about them so far

what's the min/max period of time you leave the ocean spray container on for?

Is there a hole in the top?

Yes there is a hole in the top where I inject a combination of mysis, blood worms and a bit of frozen cyclop-eze bar. I put the bottle over the sun coral when it starts to open and at the same time I thaw the food which happens quick. Then I give it a short squirt of the mixture to coax him to expand fully which takes about 15 minutes. then I give it a big squirt to try and allow all the mouths to get some food. it usually takes another 15 minutes for them to eat it all at which point I give it a second big squirt which takes another 15 or so minutes to consume. the whole feeding lasts 45 to 60 minutes but only requires 5 minutes of my attention to inject the food. When all traces of food are gone I remove the bottle so the inverts and my yellow tang dont bug the sun coral for the leftovers.

Thanks had to save that to word pad to read it later when I get some along with the pic of the feeder as well should come in handy

holes on the side too?

those just for a little flow or ?

I personally dont have any holes in the side but a friend of mine does have holes in his feeder because he can be forgetfull and once forgot to remove it before he added the holes and his suncoral suffered a fair bit of damage since he left the bottle over it for 18 hrs with no flow.
the only thing on the side is white plastic covered magnets for weight to keep the bottle from floating and moving.

I see makes sense where you get the mags?

I get them from mops.ca which is an online retailer but is located in Hamilton Ontario, so only a short drive away from my house and they allow walk in customers to their warehouse facility.