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my previous 1.5 ft and current 2 ft are on ikeas shelves / cabinet though, not stands

what hitchhiker ? 1st thing you need to do is either remove the hitchhiker or isolate your suns ...

aha .... finally got em already

overfeeding bro ... chunks of prawns might be too much for them. frozen mysis shud be enough. you should see them be ok after. feed slowly, and adjust based on their response. on your new problem, might be one of your fishes. for some reason one of my BTs had a sudden liking, and started nipping ... so now my sups are secluded with a 'cage' ... if you see that it has receded and some 'jelly' type of material is covering it, like melting, that's it, seems to be irreversible and accept the inevitable ... but you can still prevent / protect the other heads.

instead, maybe you just made us realize what we did wrong in our tanks looks good ... the back view needs more gems ...

hehe, right terry. i was doing this previously, and yes my skimmer goes berzerk, and still my water quality still gets messed up (only using tunze nano) ... so now just feed them 1x/wk of some live brine, frozen mysis and cyclopeeze, then 3x / wk of fauna marin ultra LPS. and they stay happy and my water doesn't get messed up as much as before ...

bro, shouldn't envy once you're able to care well on your sunnies, and they come out blooming often, you're gg to appreciate them more, they look stunning as well. actually as I understand from readings previously, seems these suns (tubastrea) are even harder than super suns (dendros), in the sense that the dendros are more 'forgiving' in less feedings than tubastrea. some testing needs to be done - before i fed my supers once everyday, but they responded not so good about it and seems to keep on throwing up, so i lessened it to average 3x / wk, and since then they have been thriving well. important thing is they stay healthy, and hopefully stay open longer. the dendros are indeed much more costly. the main diff is really the bigger polyps, and bigger blooms. i haven't really had experience with suns, but just thinking about it, imay even find it harder to feed them individually than supers (due to the bigger heads). my super is now 43 heads, and i'm not able to feed all specially kids and babies, but since these babies are connected, then nutrient sharing seems to be working, and they are still growing. i guess the important thing is whether these are normal suns or supers, or normal zoos and those exotic, we can still bring out something special so long as we keep them healthy and happy ... and next thing you know they either develop more stunning vibrant colors cheers !

cute, and look healthy bro

thanks. started with around ~ 30 heads ... now about 43. so far 3 adults and 3 babies RIP, due to unknown disease (?), the adults just closed up and started to melt, and their babies at the sides followed. for both cases (~ 6 mos ago, and early this year), removed and quarantined them, gently flush with fresh NSW the dying heads time to time when i see some gooie stuff. good that the other heads beside eventually stayed healthy and did not get hit.

also try to wean them to feed during lights on ... coz naturally they're in dark areas / caves, so not used to light, but i think should be able to adapt, just not in totally bright-blasted areas. with this, can see them open whether lights on or off. i always feed them with lights on, and for lights off, then it's just up to them what they can catch in the water column.

just another pic ...

haha ... that's big. i need to keep on injecting them steroids then. yeah, i checked, and you're right. when 'extremely' extended, the 3 heads extend 3/4" vertically, and about 1.5" wide, so bigger than 50c. closed, it's about the size of 1 gold coin

see below : the biggest head is the lower left one, the only one with the mouth always shaped like a " Y ". now about 43 heads, ~ 30 adults and 13 kids and babies

haha open ... if that size closed, sounds like a rhizo already

i used to feed with mysis and cyclopeze. just messes up the water too much. now i mostly feed with fauna marin ultra LPS (time to time mysis and live brine), and so far they've been blooming with a bang !

super sun yes ... i have a few heads about 50c size.

the responsible stinger ... only about 20c big ...

hi, just sharing. one of my 2 baby green bubble coral during the night suddenly left it's skeleton and was carried by the flow, landing on my super sun ball ... as a result in the morning, a total of about 7 heads (out of the 45 heads) look like this ... looks like all of em curled up and was throwing up some brownish poo looking thingy. 3 days already since and very slow in recovery, still throwing up till now. the baby bubble, no quarantined, so far still look ok (will it grow it's skeleton again?). didn't know the bubble's sting is this strong ...

mama mia ....

nice nice nice ...

cool .... hehe you might be one ofn those whoe want to go to the dark side ...

very minimalist, will look nice for sure ... maybe just offset the rocks a little to create more depth. a little more height on one of the rocks as well.

welcome back ... camping ... what will be your concept for this tank ?

haha, nice expressions . looks very healthy. what do you feed and how often you feed them ?

yup, my delivery arrived this morning. came in oceanic salt blue tubs, ~20 liters for each tub. good thing is, not messy. tubs comes closed with lids, no spills still have to see how the water quality is ...