Black Sun Coral

ColleeninFL · 09/29/2005, 06:41 PM

So here it is, our Black Sun. Between this one and the orange I have lost count of the many mouths to feed. Any other of these beauties out there?

TCU Reefer · 09/29/2005, 11:50 PM

Those suns will definitely keep you busy. Thanks for the pics!

clsund · 09/30/2005, 11:51 AM

Wow, nice and healthy polyp extension. You will definitely be busy.

RichardinFL · 10/01/2005, 06:26 PM

Wow, amazing. Thats beautiful, almost as nice as it is in our tank

Sad that I am on Reef Central looking at pictures of our own corals huh?

Rich (of Colleen & Rich)

ShellBell · 10/06/2005, 05:45 PM

I want one!!!! Beautiful coral. I have an orange one and I absolutely love it.

ColleeninFL · 10/16/2005, 06:05 PM

We call our orang the pigestraria, it would eat all night long if I would stand there and feed it.

Javeo · 10/16/2005, 08:22 PM

Very nice, i have one that looks similar, but my one has one orange head, which is quite cool. not as showy as the orange ones though

ColleeninFL · 10/19/2005, 01:09 PM

The orange is beyond beautiful. This one (the picture does not do it justice) seems to be growing and growing. There are some tentacles that are almost as long and flowing now as the orange. Did I misunderstand, you have a black with one orange head? If that is the case please post a pic I would love to see that.

Colleen

vthondaboi · 10/19/2005, 01:22 PM

Here's mine:

And a yellow one:

Brooks_McClary · 10/19/2005, 02:47 PM

How much do you guys feed your Sun Corals? I am nursing one back to health and each polyp will eat 2 or 3 mysis or plankton and still look for more!!!!

Javeo · 10/19/2005, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ColleeninFL
The orange is beyond beautiful. This one (the picture does not do it justice) seems to be growing and growing. There are some tentacles that are almost as long and flowing now as the orange. Did I misunderstand, you have a black with one orange head? If that is the case please post a pic I would love to see that.

Colleen

yes indeed, check my gallery for my orange sun coral, its stunning also.
Yup i have a black sun with one orange polyp

its near the bottom and small so its not as noticable. will take a pic when i can, no camera at the moment

ColleeninFL · 10/19/2005, 06:10 PM

Wow, very nice Javeo.

Vthon, those are sweet too.

Yanno, with as many mouths as there are to feed in the one tank, I have never though about how much I feed them. Hmmm .........nope not going to start counting now. I spend a good hour or more with them every other night.

Large Polyp Dave · 10/19/2005, 09:30 PM

i've always wanted one... but man....how do you guys have time to feed every mouth =)

Javeo · 10/20/2005, 08:54 AM

its easy, every couple of days put the coral in a bowl full of aqaurium water and add one cube of frozen mysis (thawed and washed) leave it in there for 20 minutes or so, depending on coral size, and swirl the water every so often.

chaozie · 10/20/2005, 10:34 AM

The polyps are all connected on mine so I only feed 1-2 mouths with large pieces of krill every other day. At first I was worried that they might not share but I was also worried about overfeeding in my small tank. So far they open up every night (for the past two months) and are growing so it's not too difficult.

Javeo · 10/20/2005, 03:12 PM

The polyps may be connected by flesh but they do not share the nutrition. the other polyps may be eating bits that fall away but as they have a very low metabolic requirement, corals take a long time to starve to death. Suffice to say feeding a few head will, in the long run, lead to the others dying off.

chaozie · 10/20/2005, 04:14 PM

Oh, well I feed different mouths each time so that may help. But then how do really tiny new polyps grow up that are too small to feed?

Javeo · 10/20/2005, 04:29 PM

I think they way alot of coral grow is that a part of the flesh will give rise to a new polyp or colony and give it nutrition for awhile before breaking away. the tiny ones can probably subsist on planktors and maybe bacteria and the like.

Why dont you take the entire colony out and feed it seperately?
look at mine in the gallary, fed every other day, all the mouths eat.

ColleeninFL · 10/20/2005, 08:17 PM

Here is the yellow sun at the backside of dinner time. The babies eat as much (at least it seems like they do) as the bigger polyps. I don't take ours out of the tank I use a baster 4 nights and then there is one night that I will actually hand feed each polyp on both the yellow and the black. Time consuming yes, but stress relief and entertaining for me. They always win at the tug of war and open back up as quickly as possible for more.

Javeo · 10/21/2005, 02:41 PM

:O well you are a better (and more patient ) person then i Colleen.

leaffish75 · 10/22/2005, 10:22 AM

I couldnt ever get mine to come out during the day and it would barely come out at night. How do you get it to come out?

ColleeninFL · 10/22/2005, 11:21 AM

I used to spritz a little juice from the food to come around them and for the most part around the same time of day. Now all I do is put the hand in the tank and everyone starts to open. Yuppers they can be trained.
Colleen

fishfanv · 10/22/2005, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leaffish75
I couldnt ever get mine to come out during the day and it would barely come out at night. How do you get it to come out?

i take all mine out and put in a separate container to feed every other day. if the polyps are not already out i dose the container water in some microvert to get them to come out. then i feed each (yes, each!) polyp with a combo of mysis, chunks of f1 and cyclop-eeze. it takes quite awhile to get each polyp as i have 4 suns (1 small, 3 large) and all are piggies.
then i leave all in the container for at least 30 minutes until i cannot see anymore food sticking to them. then i put back into their tanks.

ColleeninFL · 11/03/2005, 05:04 AM

Looks like they have all survived Hurricane Wilma

AndrewE · 11/04/2005, 11:05 PM

Just reading about all the great info about the suns. I have two a black and a yellow, I had a large yellow that I gave away to someone who had more time for it. I find oyster eggs get the polyps out quickly. Then I feed each polyp mysis. feed them cyclop-eeze in the tank every night after the halide goes out and the vho's are on. Great pics!

09/29/2005, 06:41 PM	#1
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	Black Sun Coral So here it is, our Black Sun. Between this one and the orange I have lost count of the many mouths to feed. Any other of these beauties out there?

09/29/2005, 11:50 PM	#2
TCU Reefer Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 1,046	Those suns will definitely keep you busy. Thanks for the pics! __________________ Steve - DFWMAS Member Click on the red house to view my build thread Current Tank Info: 215g starboard SPS in-wall, AC Jr, 3 x 250w MH's, 10k Reeflux, 320w VHO actinics, closed loop w/ Sequence Dart and OM 4-Way, Tunze wavebox, VorTech, 2x modded MJ 1200's, ASM G4 recirc/meshwheel, Geo 618 Ca reactor, custom Melev sump, Mag 9.5 return

10/06/2005, 05:45 PM	#5
ShellBell Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Springfield, Illinois Posts: 448	I want one!!!! Beautiful coral. I have an orange one and I absolutely love it. __________________ *Michelle* My username was msim001s and I had a lionfish avatar - I needed a change! Current Tank Info: 90 gallon reef, 30 gallon sump, closed loop, 2 250W reefstar MH's

10/16/2005, 06:05 PM	#6
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	We call our orang the pigestraria, it would eat all night long if I would stand there and feed it. __________________ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Current Tank Info: 1-90, 1-92 cor/bow, 1- 29 gallon reef tanks and 1 45gal fuge tank for Chip and friends and one mini hex for Mr Ick

10/16/2005, 08:22 PM	#7
Javeo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 739	Very nice, i have one that looks similar, but my one has one orange head, which is quite cool. not as showy as the orange ones though __________________ Be to this world as a perfect knight, even if it means your life Current Tank Info: 400lt. 50kg/LR. 5cm sandbed. 234w EHO T5

09/30/2005, 11:51 AM	#3
clsund Registered Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Los Angeles, CA Posts: 827	Wow, nice and healthy polyp extension. You will definitely be busy.

10/01/2005, 06:26 PM	#4
RichardinFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Fort Pierce, FL Posts: 121	Wow, amazing. Thats beautiful, almost as nice as it is in our tank Sad that I am on Reef Central looking at pictures of our own corals huh? Rich (of Colleen & Rich)

10/19/2005, 01:09 PM	#8
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	The orange is beyond beautiful. This one (the picture does not do it justice) seems to be growing and growing. There are some tentacles that are almost as long and flowing now as the orange. Did I misunderstand, you have a black with one orange head? If that is the case please post a pic I would love to see that. Colleen

10/19/2005, 01:22 PM	#9
vthondaboi Premium Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 925	Here's mine: And a yellow one:

10/19/2005, 02:47 PM	#10
Brooks_McClary Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: North Bend, OR Posts: 315	How much do you guys feed your Sun Corals? I am nursing one back to health and each polyp will eat 2 or 3 mysis or plankton and still look for more!!!! __________________ So many corals, so little space. Current Tank Info: 20 gal, 40lbs live rock, CPR HOB Fuge with Cheto and an 18w PC light, Fluval 204, 96w T5 Nova Extreme light

10/19/2005, 06:10 PM	#12
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	Wow, very nice Javeo. Vthon, those are sweet too. Yanno, with as many mouths as there are to feed in the one tank, I have never though about how much I feed them. Hmmm .........nope not going to start counting now. I spend a good hour or more with them every other night. __________________ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Current Tank Info: 1-90, 1-92 cor/bow, 1- 29 gallon reef tanks and 1 45gal fuge tank for Chip and friends and one mini hex for Mr Ick

10/19/2005, 09:30 PM	#13
Large Polyp Dave Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 799	i've always wanted one... but man....how do you guys have time to feed every mouth =) __________________ Dave Current Tank Info: Slowly setting up SPS tank

10/20/2005, 08:54 AM	#14
Javeo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 739	its easy, every couple of days put the coral in a bowl full of aqaurium water and add one cube of frozen mysis (thawed and washed) leave it in there for 20 minutes or so, depending on coral size, and swirl the water every so often. __________________ Be to this world as a perfect knight, even if it means your life Current Tank Info: 400lt. 50kg/LR. 5cm sandbed. 234w EHO T5

10/20/2005, 10:34 AM	#15
chaozie Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 84	The polyps are all connected on mine so I only feed 1-2 mouths with large pieces of krill every other day. At first I was worried that they might not share but I was also worried about overfeeding in my small tank. So far they open up every night (for the past two months) and are growing so it's not too difficult.

10/20/2005, 03:12 PM	#16
Javeo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 739	The polyps may be connected by flesh but they do not share the nutrition. the other polyps may be eating bits that fall away but as they have a very low metabolic requirement, corals take a long time to starve to death. Suffice to say feeding a few head will, in the long run, lead to the others dying off. __________________ Be to this world as a perfect knight, even if it means your life Current Tank Info: 400lt. 50kg/LR. 5cm sandbed. 234w EHO T5

10/20/2005, 04:14 PM	#17
chaozie Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 84	Oh, well I feed different mouths each time so that may help. But then how do really tiny new polyps grow up that are too small to feed?

10/20/2005, 04:29 PM	#18
Javeo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 739	I think they way alot of coral grow is that a part of the flesh will give rise to a new polyp or colony and give it nutrition for awhile before breaking away. the tiny ones can probably subsist on planktors and maybe bacteria and the like. Why dont you take the entire colony out and feed it seperately? look at mine in the gallary, fed every other day, all the mouths eat. __________________ Be to this world as a perfect knight, even if it means your life Current Tank Info: 400lt. 50kg/LR. 5cm sandbed. 234w EHO T5

10/20/2005, 08:17 PM	#19
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	Here is the yellow sun at the backside of dinner time. The babies eat as much (at least it seems like they do) as the bigger polyps. I don't take ours out of the tank I use a baster 4 nights and then there is one night that I will actually hand feed each polyp on both the yellow and the black. Time consuming yes, but stress relief and entertaining for me. They always win at the tug of war and open back up as quickly as possible for more.

10/21/2005, 02:41 PM	#20
Javeo Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 739	:O well you are a better (and more patient ) person then i Colleen. __________________ Be to this world as a perfect knight, even if it means your life Current Tank Info: 400lt. 50kg/LR. 5cm sandbed. 234w EHO T5

10/22/2005, 10:22 AM	#21
leaffish75 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 432	I couldnt ever get mine to come out during the day and it would barely come out at night. How do you get it to come out?

10/22/2005, 11:21 AM	#22
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	I used to spritz a little juice from the food to come around them and for the most part around the same time of day. Now all I do is put the hand in the tank and everyone starts to open. Yuppers they can be trained. Colleen __________________ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Current Tank Info: 1-90, 1-92 cor/bow, 1- 29 gallon reef tanks and 1 45gal fuge tank for Chip and friends and one mini hex for Mr Ick

11/03/2005, 05:04 AM	#24
ColleeninFL Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ft Pierce, FL Posts: 49	Looks like they have all survived Hurricane Wilma __________________ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Current Tank Info: 1-90, 1-92 cor/bow, 1- 29 gallon reef tanks and 1 45gal fuge tank for Chip and friends and one mini hex for Mr Ick

11/04/2005, 11:05 PM	#25
AndrewE Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 55	Just reading about all the great info about the suns. I have two a black and a yellow, I had a large yellow that I gave away to someone who had more time for it. I find oyster eggs get the polyps out quickly. Then I feed each polyp mysis. feed them cyclop-eeze in the tank every night after the halide goes out and the vho's are on. Great pics!