sun coral

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Originally Posted by untamed

The challenge I had was (as Marie mentioned...) the crabs/shrimp would steal any food I fed to the sun coral. It just wouldn't eat fast enough and defending it while it ate just took too much effort for me.

In my case, the crabs seem to learn how to get an easy meal and flocked to the sun coral for every feeding.

I cut the top off a large soft drinks bottle & put it over my sun coral when I fed it. I just poked a turkey baster through the hole at the top. Seemed to work a treat as nobody could swim up & steal the food.

I also used mysis and cyclops as well as the vitamin & nutritionally enriched brine shrimp, so in my defence, I was feeding more than just 'water made to look like a bug' - my sun coral more than doubled in size in the 12 months I had it.