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Old 05-21-2005, 11:44 PM
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i have one that i bought off a guy here which was almost dead and now i have like 10 heads on it doing much better can i feed it cyclops breeze too . And before i was feeding it with baby brine and a few of the heds was getting food is that enough or does all of them need to eat.


P.S how many times to you guys and gals feed your's
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Old 05-22-2005, 12:45 AM
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We have two sun corals in our tank. They get fed mysis shrimp two times a week. It is my understanding that every head needs to be fed.
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They'll usually eat anything they can catch. Try squirting some "juice" on them, wait 5-10 minutes till the heads open, then squirt the real food around. I think each head has to eat since they don't share a "bodY', just a hard skeleton. I made the mistake of trying to rescue a dying sun coral & it's done better but always looks crappy unless the heads happen to be out. I find the heads out late at night or early morning, if you don't want to wait for them to open at reg. feeding time.

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You have to feed each head seperatly!!!!

Mysis works great!!!
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I used to feed each one, now I usually feed the tank some cyclo-peeze first, mine will open within 5-10 minuts, then I dump in some mysis and brine shrimp.. they always seem to get some, and they are over a year old now.

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I used to kind of spot feed, a baster type thing with frozen brine and chopped up mysis soaked in selco with some phyto etc... If you baste the area most heads will get some food, I found them to be voracious eaters though and they could eat more than I could feed it seemed.

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