help in keeping sun coral

[attitude]

i had 3 sun coral all die.. for the pass few month.. help me in keeping them well and why sometime it open and some time it do not....and how to keep it open all the time...

[ryz]

put in shady highflow area... target feed all polyps regularly... the polyps open only when strong smelling food is in water and when the lights are dim.

[sps_dude]

hi..... hmm.. sun coral only opens in the night time..... and since sun corals are azooxanthellae(it does not photosynthesis to produce food like most corals).... it will most probably die of hunger... try feeding it with chopped prawns......

[FuEl]

Invert a container over it and squirt lots of mashed prawn and cyclopeeze in the container. Sure to open after few minutes.

[RAV-65]

how to squirt mashed prawns?!

[flubberina13]

Maybe the following may help...

1) They need moderate current

2) Doesn't matter about lighting. Infact, not within the glare of metal halides if you using mhs

3) Keep them away from frogspawns, hammers, torch and octospawns. They will sting polyps one by one until the poor suns became 'botak'

4) To feed them, you can actually use a syringe, a pipette or a turkey baster and just squirt a bit of cyclopeeze or similar stuff on top and wait a few minutes at the most

5) When the polyps open, then you feed with the remaining of the food or minute pieces of shrimpmeat or similar foods

6) if they still dun open, dun worry...just do the same for a few days, your diligence will be rewarded.

Just look at my suns...

http://www.sgreefclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19538

[Tigger]

how to squirt mashed prawns?!

use a syringe lor

[attitude]

thank all of you i will give it a try