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Old 11/03/2007, 04:13 PM
KUDA KUDA is offline
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How do you make a sun coral open?

I got it on Friday. I am aware on how to feed them, but how do you make it open to feed the polyps?
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Old 11/03/2007, 04:22 PM
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just put it in a seperate container and put some mysis on top it will open up
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Old 11/03/2007, 04:39 PM
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I'll try it. Thanks.
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Old 11/03/2007, 07:27 PM
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It may take some patience, if its a new purchase, and hasnt been fed well it could be stressed. Usually a healthy sun will open within a few minutes after food has been introduced to the tank, It may take several nights or more of jsut adding a taste of food to the water before it begins to show interest.
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Old 11/03/2007, 07:43 PM
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Ok. Thanks. I got a few polyps to open a little bit. They couldn't hold on to mysis but I dosed some Artic Pods and cyclops to give them something.
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Old 11/03/2007, 08:27 PM
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cut a top off of a plastic bottle and you can use a turkey baster to shoot food at it. I wait till mine has opened to feed it but it took a month of coaxing to get it to open. It has dubbled in size now and will open whenever it is hungry.
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Old 11/06/2007, 01:13 PM
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Try dried cyclop-eeze in the water, worked for me recently. Within 20 min opened.
 


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