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01-07-2008, 04:54 AM
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I had so many conflicting views when I looked into keeping a Sun Coral that I just went ahead bought one & tried a few different regimes.
In the end I settled on 3-4 times a week which worked well with my particular specimen in my tank conditions. Sun Coral Blog This guy varied how often he fed his. Flippers n Fins This guy says to feed twice a day. Marine Depot This place says feed daily. Sorry, don't know if that helps or confuses  . oh & I fed brine shrimp most of the time... . Last edited by VFX; 01-07-2008 at 05:11 AM. 
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01-07-2008, 05:18 AM
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I target feed my suncoral at least 3 times a week with mysis shrimp, it also manages to catch some of the fish food every day as well. I have had mine for over 2 years and after I moved the coral out of the peppermint shrimps reach, it has tripled in size
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01-07-2008, 05:31 AM
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Im with marie on this one. at least three times a week, but i wouldnt do it more than once a day unless they are small feedings. more than that and the coral wont be able to digest the food fast enough.
obviously brine shrimp has worked for you guys, but for the record, it is very poor nutritionally. it's basically like water made to look like a bug. mysis would be a far better choice. Supplementation with something like selcon once in a while wouldnt hurt either.
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01-07-2008, 06:00 AM
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The challenge I had was (as Marie mentioned...) the crabs/shrimp would steal any food I fed to the sun coral. It just wouldn't eat fast enough and defending it while it ate just took too much effort for me.
In my case, the crabs seem to learn how to get an easy meal and flocked to the sun coral for every feeding.
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01-07-2008, 04:34 PM
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I also used mysis and cyclops as well as the vitamin & nutritionally enriched brine shrimp, so in my defence, I was feeding more than just 'water made to look like a bug' - my sun coral more than doubled in size in the 12 months I had it. Last edited by VFX; 01-07-2008 at 04:39 PM.
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01-18-2008, 02:34 AM
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How's your sun coral doing Fiorano? I got one the same day as you. The polyps eat incredible amounts. Mine is doing well. What did you work out for a feeding schedule? I've been feeding mine every two days, but think I'll cut that down a bit, I've got just barley detectable nitrates today, something I haven't had in a few months. The sun has been the only increased feeding in the tank so it must have something to do with that.
Brad
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01-18-2008, 06:04 AM
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I feed mine a mix of cyclopeeze (either FD or frozen), spirulina powder & Reefroids with 3 drops of Selcon. This is what I feed to my other corals & I usually do a couple of squirts daily into the tank with at least 1/2 squirt directed at the corner with my suncorals. Seems to work so far.
Anthony
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01-18-2008, 06:57 AM
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Cant get the polyps left to extend and feed....argh
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01-18-2008, 07:49 PM
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What worked for me is taking the coral out and placing it in a small plastic container with water from your setup. Wash the mysis cube and throw it in. Swirl the water so it creates a vortex around the sun coral and the mysis will go to the middle. Once the sun coral opens up swirl a few more times and all the heads will be fed.
Its kinda time consuming but it works 
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