supersun in super bad condition

[ah_d3x]

its been very well until recently a hitch hiker decided to feast on 2 heads and now... its seems that more are dying.

seniors pls advise!

thank you very much!

[poomoon]

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

[limsc]

Bro, I used to have similar problems and it killed my super suns..

I couldn't find any pest, the suns just dun open up and the the orange flesh just reside.

What i did is frag the dead heads out and separate those heads near the dead one from the healthy ones.

I manage to save some healthy one.

My aim for fragging them up is hoping the "decaying" flesh does not spread to the healthy one.

Also to create a buffer in case those next to the dead one are already affected but not showing signs yet.

But it is really heart pain. I LOST 5 20cents head from that. 20cents is before open!!!

[mengyang_neo]

Bro, I used to have similar problems and it killed my super suns..

I couldn't find any pest, the suns just dun open up and the the orange flesh just reside.

What i did is frag the dead heads out and separate those heads near the dead one from the healthy ones.

I manage to save some healthy one.

My aim for fragging them up is hoping the "decaying" flesh does not spread to the healthy one.

Also to create a buffer in case those next to the dead one are already affected but not showing signs yet.

But it is really heart pain. I LOST 5 20cents head from that. 20cents is before open!!!

Hi bro, me encounter the same problem as u, but instead of fragging the dead part away, I just leave it. I see that it only affect 2-3 head after that it will stop. But the interesting thing is after 2 weeks, around 7-8 baby head start to pop out from the dead area. So end up I do have more small one instead of 1 big one. =)

[LaW]

check water parameters.

KH

Mg

Ca

Temperature.

PO4

NO3

especially temperature, KH and PO4

[Terryz_]

From my understanding, is it is being fed too much to the point where it cannot properly digest the amount of food be eaten and the undigested food starts to rot from the inside of the polyps... Corals are not like fishes, they will constantly feed when they smell food and not know when to stop... There is no really a definite amount of food to target feed... You have to trial and error...

[ah_d3x]

Guess it might be the food! Thankz for the pointer! . So how do i know the amount to feed?

[Terryz_]

Guess it might be the food! Thankz for the pointer! . So how do i know the amount to feed?

How much are you feeding it? Normal mysis is fine... And twice a week is enough... Observe it.. Increase feeding if you see it not opening or the base is receding..

[ambystoma82]

+1 to the fooding causing the deaths..

the food size applies for all lps n softies..

[stevenchia]

I feed my super sun with brine shrimps. Wat i notice, after feeding they will be bloated, means u cant feed anymore...

They are telling you they are full already when i feed brine shrimps..I feed them everyday.

Brine shrimps easily to be digest..

[kira76]

Hmmm, I feed my sun twice everyday, once before I go work and once in the evening. I feed them a mixture of brine and mystic shrimps. But usually the night feed they don't eat much cos they're alway close when the lights are on.

They seems to be doing fine so far. Eveny night when lights off, will open up big big.