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12-05-2008, 07:23 AM
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sun coral and pellet food
I realize tubastrea needs feeding almost every day to do well, but what do you guys feed them? Can they survive and do well with a staple of NLS pellet and occasional feedings of chopped silverside or mysis? Dunno if it matters, but they will go in a small divided section of the tank that gets zero fish traffic so they won't be subject to getting any food stolen out of their mouths (which is a real annoyance when I feed my other LPS).
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12-05-2008, 01:02 PM
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Personally I wouldn't use pellets, I would think it is too hard for them to digest. Not sure it corals drink water to rehydrate them.
Silver sides, mysis, chopped shrimp..... any of those are good. JMO
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12-05-2008, 03:26 PM
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I agree that I wouldn't target pellets at them, but I can say that when I put pellets in the tank, if one falls to the Sun Coral, it gobbles it up like you wouldn't believe.
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12-05-2008, 03:36 PM
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Mysis, mysis, and more mysis! I spot feed mine every other day. Feed it, wait about 15 minutes, and it will most likely be ready for some more. Easy path to nice fat sun corals
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12-05-2008, 04:04 PM
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Thats interesting to hear that your sun coral eats pellets... when I had mine I would throw the occasional pellet on it, the mouth would eat it, and then proceed to spit it out no less than 10 minutes later. Maybe mine was a picky eater!
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12-05-2008, 06:38 PM
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My candy cane loves pellets. It just hard to make sure they chew properly before swallowing.
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12-05-2008, 06:57 PM
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It's not a suprize to hear that corals are eating pellets I know a few people that feed their corals pellets Personally I've never tried myself but soon I will try with my candycane and then also the elegance and duncan although a mix of dry and mysis can't hurt.
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12-05-2008, 09:08 PM
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I feed mine every other day, lots of mysis. It amazes me how much they will eat. I am not sure if you can over feed them or not.
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12-05-2008, 11:22 PM
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lol for the record, I do NOT have any sun coral at the moment... I just really really want them
 I had thought about the water balance ting too but cnidarians generally are osmoconformers... that is, they are osmotically balanced with the surrounding water via their outer skin; I had figured that if this was true, it wouldn't matter if I fed them a dry food since they would just shrink a little and suck up more water through their skin to compensate... but maybe you're right. Maybe a few pellets once in a while is okay, but not as a staple food. anyone else want to throw into the pot?
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12-06-2008, 12:09 AM
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Last time I ran out of mysis mine were fed pellets and really seemed to like them. Candy canes like them too. I've never seen any bad side effects from pellets.
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