lcstorc:
From what you remember, can you tell: what did you keep, what flow, food, amount and frequency of feeding, kind of filtration, what problems, how declined - for us to know, what to avoid and what pay attention to. Would appreciate this.
Frankie:
Good, that I found you. Are all 4 colonies of the same kind?
I have my orange one around 1.5 years, and it had overgrown its rock and is practically wrapping around. Part of polyps id facing down and can't be fed. Sorry, don't have a photo uploaded to Photobucket yet, but you cen see the bottom of colony at this page:
Sun Coral, Tubastrea sp. down the page, bright red AquaGlove is noticeable.
Did your suns grow onto surrounding rock? Mine is on bare bottom, and I didn't notice this quite long. So far glued piece of the rock to keep colony lifted, may be should place colony on the rock to encrust it.
Did your spawn and larvae settled? If so, I will have much more questions
Did you met, by any chance, the information, which of the orange tubastreas is which - coccinea, faulkneri, aurea, and how to distinguish them visually. May be by septa pattern, if part of skeleton is visible.
Did your suns lost some intensity of coloration (coenosarc - body tissue, not tentacles)?
Mine was quite salmon-pinkish, but fade in a few months, despite of feeding by salmon and ocean plankton (pink), in addition to other food. One of the babies was kept in another tank, where it was fed mostly by dried Cyclop-eeze. It had more intense salmon-pink coloration, that other young colonies. In turn, only the young (1 yr+) colonies have the original pinkish shade, even on the same food, as a big coral.
Any ideas on restoring color of the big colony?
framerguy:
I was toying with the same idea of the smaller tank, plumbed to the big tank, but it will restrict access to the main tank, in my case. Now considering keeping it in a separate 10g tank, but have a problem with visualizing good looking tank with one big orange colony, one small yellow, high skeleton, and tens of baby colonies - placed compact, but accessible for a feeding and cleaning. Thank will be accessible from all sides, can't cover back wall by the rock.
It's strange, that your sun just hangs on. May be light, or flow - I'm sure you feed it well. I do that only twice a week, but have low light tank and coral is in relatively low flow.
Your Christmas Tree worms: I'm very interested. What kind do you have, how frequently do you feed it, amount and size of food. Anything, that you noticed, and what is worth to pay attention to.
I'm currently likely overfeeding, but have a scloronephthyas in the same tank, and they must be fed this way. But if I ever move scleros away, I would like to know, what feeding will be sufficient without compromising water quality.
Did your worms grow or reproduce? I mean the colorful ones, Spirobranchus.
I have a more, than one rock with worms, hopefully, they will have a choice for reproduction.
Mine are: common brown porites with large worms (crown is ~3/4" high), same kind, but very young worms (bought them, no reproduction in my tank), green porites with crowns of the same wine-red color, small (~1/2"H) colorful crowns on very fine beige/cocoa with milk color. And brownish with green centers of a new growth porites, but without worms, empty hole. Green pavona with drab-green worms.
If your porites are not brown, I will have more questions, if you don't mind.
My brown porites with large worms also survived toxic tank crash, that killed birdsnest and elkhorn. Bleached to the white, worms' crowns looked as a wet hens, but restored in ~3 months. Impressible. Any photos of yours? I can post mine - have a lot of them, but this is usually conversation stopper, for some reason.
Keep it coming.
Very interesting.
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