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Old 09-06-2012, 05:15 AM
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Old 09-06-2012, 07:37 AM
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Don't mean to hijack the thread but....
I wish I knew how to get them to open up... I have a small cony with about 7 heads and I've never seen them regardless of when i feed...
Any ideas how to make them "happy"?
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Old 09-06-2012, 07:46 AM
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Don't mean to hijack the thread but....
I wish I knew how to get them to open up... I have a small cony with about 7 heads and I've never seen them regardless of when i feed...
Any ideas how to make them "happy"?
Feed them in a separate container - EVERY DAMN DAY.
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Old 09-06-2012, 07:57 AM
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Feed them in a separate container - EVERY DAMN DAY.
Never thought of doing that but I just might... I have to win the suncoral battle.

What's best thing to feed them?
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Old 09-06-2012, 08:08 AM
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I had some for a while.. they rarely wanted to open.. i could tell they were shrinking so i started fighting hard. got most of them to open up after a couple weeks of feeding. kept that up for a month or so.. missed a few days as i was to busy with work, and it was back to square one. so i gave them away to someone that could bother to feed them every day heh.

someone with more experience can chime in, but when they were really hurting i would pull them out, or shut all flow off to that tank<20g fuge/fragtank> and make a mix of really thick reef roids, frozen cyclopeze, mushed up mysis, whatever i had from feeding everyone else and pretty much smother all the polyps with it, just leave it sitting where the tentacles will eventually come out. and just leave it until its finished eating, then put it back where it was or turn the flow on again.

other times i would just put a bit of food in the water or on the coral to get them to open up, ie come back in 10-30 mins then feed them then.

once they fatten up all these problems seem to go away, its just when they are really hurting.


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What's best thing to feed them?
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Old 09-06-2012, 08:23 AM
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Feed them in a separate container - EVERY DAMN DAY.


yup gotta be fed daily



train them , feed them in daylight only.a 2l bottle cut and placed overthem for feeding works well too.

once trained i blow debris around with a turkey baster then ten mins later i got suncorals ready to feed.
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Old 09-29-2012, 04:54 PM
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Don't mean to hijack the thread but....
I wish I knew how to get them to open up... I have a small cony with about 7 heads and I've never seen them regardless of when i feed...
Any ideas how to make them "happy"?
Crazy stupid amounts of flow also helps. Doug doesn't target feed his but he has a ton of flow in his tank and I notice they are almost always open.

FYI AI has some large black suncorals FS
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