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Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 885730)

to be honest youll spend a whole lot of time trying to get it fed properly i would just pass it on, reason i say this is they dont fare well in new tanks as the mico life isnt there for it to get a feeding response and dry pollution is high.

you can feed it live food like rotifiers but unless your culturing on a large level youll run out of food pretty quick and it will become expensive to feed it daily.

i can tell from the pic that it is starving , the shriveled skin is a for sure sign of malnutrition .

these corals belong is a dedicated system with live foods, over sized filtration and steady water parameteres all of which a new tank finds hard to offer.

im not saying its impossible but its not easy to do on short notice and without planning you'll end up doing more harm then good to your young reef(small changes)

best advise in this situation is bring it back to where you bought it for credit and get something more designed to a mixed reef and for your care level.

info on this coral can be found on the NPS forumns on reef central if google isnt giving you much, i think you'll find after some reading it was a poor purchase and the seller should have told you of its requirements, its a common thing for larger box stores to do and the customer usually bites it as a newb loss when in fact they never stood a chance :)

if you do decide to keep it i can put you on the right path to getting it healthy, its not easy though just a FYI:)

beauty though!!

cheers

denny

sent you a plan to get this coral back on track , please post your findings and let me know if it works :)

any questions shoot:)

"nps corals use food to create energy , this created energy is used to find more food , when a coral becomes starved it has no reserve energy in storage to feed off so its a slow process when one is starved to start with."

Update on my tank:

Red chile got scrubbed a few times and fed cyclo, phytofeast and marine snow twice a day since. It's starting to put some polyps out.

Bought a few new corals off kijiji the other day- sun coral, hammer, frogspawn, torch, open brain, long tentacle plate and a few mushrooms. Feel free to give me any tips you might have or any incorrect IDs. The only one that hasn't fed is the open brain. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/ta5ury5e.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/upe7edyp.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/a3e9agyq.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/by7equ8y.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/ygudumep.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/enequpa8.jpg http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/22/etuqa4y2.jpg

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i can't select individual picture but in your first post there are two pictures of anemones one on the sandbed and one on the glass. are these the same anemone?

I'm not sure which you're talking about, I only have the one anemone (ritteri) on the glass. I have a Goniopora on the sand bed(also pink) and a green elegance.

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looking good:)

so youll need to keep the chili clean , it needs to be clean in order to get a feeding response, once it feeds often enough its polyps will stay out all day and night:)

alot of your corals are photosynthetic so i wouldnt bother feeding them as pollution takes a couple of months to notice the declining effects and they dont need to be fed , most of the requirements are met thorugh photosynthesis and particulate in the water column.

your suncoral though is NPS like the chili , the suncoral needs meat and needs it daily(best reults)

glad to see the chili is coming back for you i told you it would work ive had to do the same i bet a thousand times lol

cheers

denny aka (reefwars)

Thanks again for the help. I also have it suspended upside down and I think that's helping. I just fed each polyp of the sun coral with tweezers. It seems pretty happy. I know I over feed the tank I'm terrified that something will starve though.

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Originally Posted by EquiReef (Post 887751)

I'm not sure which you're talking about, I only have the one anemone (ritteri) on the glass. I have a Goniopora on the sand bed(also pink) and a green elegance.

I think I see now, your second picture in your first post is a green elegance coral. I have a nem that looks almost identical

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Originally Posted by pgtanks (Post 887833)

I think I see now, your second picture in your first post is a green elegance coral. I have a nem that looks almost identical

Wow really? I would love to get one that color. What is it called?

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