Tubastraea Feeding
 

i just bought a tubastraea coral two days ago
it is still closed
no polyps are showing
i just tried target feeding it using the soda bottle method
but the problem is that i dont know what to feed it
i cant seem to find cyclop-eeze
so i am feeding it with Kent's zooplex and newly hatched brine shrimps
i also added dried plankton( dont know if this is okay)
need more advices...

use frozen meaty foods like brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, shredded squid, chopped krill, bloodworms.

I turn off all the power heads/filters in mytanks so there's no current, then baste the sun coral with a cloud of meaty foods and juices. It takes these juices to entice it to open.

The first few times the coral may not even respond but after a few nights of trying you will soon see the yellow polyps expand and then finally it will learn to come out as the lights go off, or may even open in mid daylight when you feed your fish.

Patience with first getting these corals to eat is the key, so don't give up. Hope you have a good cleanup crew!

well i dont have a good cleanup crew
i have 4 turbo snails..thats it
well my cleaner shrimp will eat the food on the tubastraea...
well wont the blood worms be too big?
so frozen food is good?
should i stop feeding it with zooplex?
zooplex is quite costly

I switch between frozen brine shrimp and frozen mysid shrimp. I let it thaw out in a small cup of tank water and break it down so the pieces aren't too big. When I feed my sun coral in a bowl that I float in the tank, I can keep recirculating the water in the bowl so that they all get a chance to eat. Most of the food gets eaten within 30 minutes or so, and the leftovers are for the fish. Seems to work pretty well for me.

I think that the plastic bottle feeding trick doesn't allow much circulation of the food, and the individual corallites only get fed if the food falls on them (or if it swims into their mouths, I never tried live brine shrimp)

what do u mean?
can u explain more of ur feeding method

I put the frozen food in a small cup with tank water to thaw out and leave it under the light for several minutes before they shut off in the evening (to warm it up to tank temp-less shock). After the lights have shut off for 5 or 10 minutes, I put the coral in a small plastic bowl that fits between the edge of the tank and the cover. This keeps the bowl in the water to control the temp. I can then pour the brine mixture onto the coral and use a small syringe to circulate the water and target feed if necessary. Unfortunately, the +/-50 corallites seem to open on different schedules, so it takes a half hour or more to feed all of them. I'm not an expert-this is the best I could do based on the info I have found. I've been doing this for about 2 weeks and it opens up a little more every day.

The plastic bottle won't work for me because the coral is too big. Also, I read that these corals should not be placed on the substrate because of problems with sand.

ive had mine for 2 weeks and what really made mine explode open was a 2 liter hat feeding of mysis shrimp 'marinated' (lol) in Marine Snow, Micro Vert, and Zoe......amazing results..thats my $.02

well can i feed them live blood worms?