Sun Coral Blossom

[lokey]

Hi anyone, have experience with Sun Corals?

Got 2 pieces but it's not blooming been a week already.

What kinda light? I hv 2X10k FL 2 X Blue At 4' light.

Do we need MH to get it to bloom?

[reefer guy]

strong current bro, not lights.... entice it w brine shrimp to open

[FuEl]

brine shrimp won't be effective..

What you need is very strong smelling food...like cyclops...or blended mussels, shrimp etc...

You will also need a very strong skimmer to do cleaning up later.

[reefer guy]

...maybe an individual case get different results..... my sunnies were attracted to simply brine shrimps....

[sherman]

Low lite is good and good flow.

Use prawn to lure it.

Regards

[lokey]

Thanks dudes,

u guys r great!

[metals99]

suncorals dun need any light at all.. just entice it.. i heard one reefer did was to put it inside a bucket then put salt water and entice it there with brine shrimp..

sounds like a good idea..

[Jun Hong]

i heard one reefer did was to put it inside a bucket then put salt water and entice it there with brine shrimp..

I don't think this is a good idea. It may stress your suncoral each time you take it out and put it into a bucket. Sooner of later, you will find that it is quite troublesome to do so and you may end up feeding your sun coral less frequently.

Bear in mind that your tank nutrient export capacity must be able to cope with the bio-load increased by feeding of suncoral.

[panlee]

i heard one reefer did was to put it inside a bucket then put salt water and entice it there with brine shrimp.. 

I tried, does not work well as only a few open up. And it is more work having to bring it out into bucket, stressing it I think.

Now I put in in strong current flow and many more are opening up.

[nleong]

patience and strong current.

i used to target feed, but have since stop, just does cyclop n on the powerhead.

this is the result

[Octopuffy]

Gorgeous corals u guys have there but looks tough to keep.

Oh well, I am not ready for such beauties yet.

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