Red sun coral

[Ron Thomas]

My LFS had a sun coral labelled "rare red sun coral". The polyps were retracted but, sure enough, the flesh was red and not like the typical sun corals I'm used to. I was told that the polyps are red and the price was okay so I bought it. Is anyone familiar with a red-polyped sun coral? Is this a common color form?

[Qckwzrd]

I've never heard of that but would love to see a picture.

[Hormigaquatica]

There are red colormorphs of Tubastrea, but they are pretty rarely available. The only caution I can give is that there are people out there dyeing Tubastreas, so keep a close eye on it. Make sure it gets fed pretty heavily just on the off chance that it was dyed (if thats the case, itll be stressed out and will need heavy feeding to recover). Hopefully it doesnt matter and you have a beautiful, real specimine (in which case.. Im jealous.. I want one... lol)

[musty baby]

Yes I've heard of them

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ryanholl/aquarium/Resized_IMG_0221small.jpg

[ipiniowa]

Ames is close to me. I'll take a frag of those. :D

[Qckwzrd]

wow those are nice!!

[Gordonious]

PLEASE let me know if you have any lose frags and if it keeps it's color.

[raoul]

I just got one polyp of a sun coral that the flesh is read but the feeder tentacles are yellow/orange. Very nice contrast, and has a great appetite. It does need a little bit of TLC though. We've had it for over a week and haven't noticed a color change as if it were dyed. Hopefully it's not :)

[Qckwzrd]

anyone know if there is a site tht has them for sale?
raoul...pics :)

[Gordonious]

Could be a year before you could tell. Still if anyone has frags PLEASE let me know. I keep a lot of these non-photosynthetic corals.

Jon

[raoul]

I'll see what I can do with pics. I can probably take them, it's getting them on here that I don't know how to do! I'll have to see if my hubby can help me.

It's only one head right now, and there's quite a bit of skeleton showing, the flesh doesn't come all the way out of the skeleton yet, like I said, it needs some TLC. The suppliers for one of the LFSs tossed it in for our LFS guy as a freebie, but it's not that great of a deal for him because he's got to remember to feed it. Since it was such a small piece he threw it in with our stuff for us when we went Christmas shopping and brought home a few other things. Hopefully all goes well!

[Gordonious]

Cool. :-) Lucky you. Take good care of it. I hope it comes back well for you. Good luck.

Jon

[raoul]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8859371#post8859371 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
Cool. :-) Lucky you. Take good care of it. I hope it comes back well for you. Good luck.

Jon

Thanks! I hope it does well too. I've always thought they were pretty neat little critters. I'd love to see this one healthy and thriving!

[dernparker]

Those reds are fantastic!
I am curious... what and how are you all feeding your sun corals?
Oh, and when??
thanks a bunch,
Deb

[Qckwzrd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8915160#post8915160 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dernparker
Those reds are fantastic!
I am curious... what and how are you all feeding your sun corals?
Oh, and when??
thanks a bunch,
Deb

Mysis shrimp, brine shrimp, squid and silversides. I feed mine about 5 times a week and do bi-weekly water changes...I see babies growing on the bottoms of the yellow suncoral and babies growing like trees on the black. As I type this mine are taking a "sh*t" :)

[Gordonious]

Yours will eat silversides? I bought some because I swore someone said they ate them, but haven't fed any yet, but I forgot where I read it.

Where do you get your squid? Is it a frozen fish food or something you got from your grocery store.

[Qckwzrd]

I dice up the silversides and try to feed each head. The Squid I get from my job. San Fran makes it in cudes. I sometimes buy fresh shrimp from the fish market and feed them also.

[raoul]

I feed mine mysis shrimp and zooplankton that is in a jar in the fridge (it's easier sometimes than trying to distribute a cube of mysis to things that aren't hungry yet).

I feed mine during lights on. We usually turn the lights off before we go to bed and I don't want to wait to go to bed. It's learning to open up more quickly during the day, but it hasn't opened fully yet. I peaked at it last night after we should have been sleeping and it was fully open and beautiful! At first I couldn't tell what it was!

[jf2381]

I know someone that has them. I'll ask her to post a picture of her colony.

[Gordonious]

Please ask her to as well as some info such as how long she has had them and for how long.

[jf2381]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8927593#post8927593 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gordonious
Please ask her to as well as some info such as how long she has had them and for how long.

I sent her a PM. I believe she has had the colony for 2 years...not sure...I'll leave the details for her to post.

[dernparker]

Please ask her what and how she feeds them. As well as what time of day. How often she does water changes if she feeds in the tank.
Thank so much!
Deb

[Qckwzrd]

Ask her to frag me a few polyps also :)..I just got a yellow suncoral 2day with around 50+ polyps. So now I have two black, one orange and one yellow...red soon to come...I hope.

[Gordonious]

I really really want a red one.

[esco]

Nice... more pics, they're gorgeous!!

[Matt1993]

do you have any more lose pieces of it

[dernparker]

I found a red one last night. It is in bad shape but hope to help it out.
It did feed lastnight and going to do daily feedings for a bit. Sure hope it makes it. It was a very large colony but now down to a few... I will post pics once it is happy again.
thanks for all the advice!! It sure is helpful!!!!

[raoul]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8858657#post8858657 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Qckwzrd
anyone know if there is a site tht has them for sale?
raoul...pics :)

I know this is an older thread, but I didn't know how to post. I've learned :)

http://saltbucket.com/d/6629-2/Reef+Tank+75+gal+-+1-23-07017.JPG (http://saltbucket.com/v/altastampsalot/LPS+Jan+07/Reef+Tank+75+gal+-+1-23-07017.JPG.html)

It's looking better than when we got it. It shows enough of itself now that I can get a better picture of the contrasting colors.

For a bigger pic, just click on the pic here.

[musty baby]

Looks like some type of dendro to me

[esco]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9056820#post9056820 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ryansholl
Looks like some type of dendro to me i second that, it is indeed a dendro polyp

[raoul]

I know I don't know everything, so I like to check out advice others pass on. I've looked for info on dendro pics, stuff like that. I can't find much. Even in E. Borneman's book he doesn't even have a genus heading for dendrophyllia, although he does list it under common genera.

I've found that they're in the same family as the sun corals (tubastreas), but aside from the name, I have no idea what the difference is.

If someone could give me some info, or point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!

[esco]

Raoul, here ya go:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=912148&highlight=dendrophyllia+coccinea

another:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=554357&perpage=25&highlight=dendrophyllia%20coccinea&pagenumber=12

hopefully that helps :)

[JokerGirl]

I had been looking at getting this guy to go with my yellow sun coral, but couldn't figure out if it was a true colour morph and not just died/bleached. They are calling it a Grey Tubinaria. I'm still new to the hobby so I'm still learning the differences between everything but it sure as hell looks like a sun coral to me.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Grey-Tubinaria-Coral-Live-Coral_W0QQitemZ120075472509QQihZ002QQcategoryZ46308QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.aquaticcollection.com/pictures/1-14-07/zoom/pagoda1zoom.jpg

http://www.aquaticcollection.com/pictures/1-14-07/large/pagoda1.jpg

[musty baby]

It's a turbinaria. Pagoda cup coral. Maybe it IS related, I don't know, but it's common. Photosynthetic. Cool, in my book, love mine.

[raoul]

When I was going through Borneman's book and looking at other things last night, these seem to be talked about with the tubastreas, so I'm guessing they are related. But I haven't studied LPS as much as other things in my tank, so I could be wrong. :)
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out!

[raoul]

Looking at some of those pics, I would have to agree, it looks very similar (maybe identical) to some of the pics there.
Thanks for providing the links, I found the first one last night, but not the second. The search feature never works for me, so I don't even try searching RC anymore so I really appreciate you pulling those threads for me.

I think I'll post my pic in that first thread and get a confirmation/ID and see what other info I can glean from them - thanks!

[Qckwzrd]

Raoul do they have anymore at the shop you got it from?

["Umm, fish?"]

Here's the run-down on the family:

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/dendrophylliidae.htm

[raoul]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9077214#post9077214 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Qckwzrd
Raoul do they have anymore at the shop you got it from?

Not last time I was in. I don't think he likes to order them, he doesn't want to have to remember to feed them all the time :) this was just a freebie frag that his supplier threw in for him.

This thing surprised me and ate a stomatella snail. I saw (and took pics) of it spitting out the shell, and then slurping up what was left of the snail. I posted a thread about it yesterday.

[Gordonious]

Where is this thread??? I want to see this.

Jon

[raoul]

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1028135

I don't know if you found it yet, but just in case you didn't, here's the thread :)

[Qckwzrd]

umm fish...great link!