jnohs:
Thank you! Only tentacles are bent - it's quite indicative for a making a proper flow.
Mine usually had slightly less:
Will adjust.
If you don't mind, amount of food - teaspoon once a day (size of tank?), 2-3 cubes? I have to have some reference amount, you understand.
You see, NPS gorgonians can grow, but very few people are willing to talk about it and give a chance to all others try the same. Will appreciate this.
vdituri:
Thank you, and can you tell me more about kinds of sun corals? You see, I know about them by color (greenish-black T. micranthus, black T. diaphana, but all orange and yellow are always listed together - Tubastrea coccinea, T. faulkneri and T. aurea). I would like to know, how distinguish them, and what the difference is between usual orangeish sun coral with low skeleton and lemon-yellow sun coral with high skeleton - they are visibly different, no need in microscopical examination
My first, orange sun was acquired healthy, and continue to be so, good specimen for a start really helps. But recovery is still possible even in bad cases, where only the part of live tissue is remaining (it was on sun baby, not adult coral).
My second, yellow sun (T. aurea? guessing here), was like this in the first days:
Photo from Nov17,07.
This - Feb 02, 08 - 2.5 months later:
The only difference between orange and yellow was that yellow closed at first, when flow was off for a feeding, then adapted, and it had indigestion from the homemade blend, good for everyone else in the tank, including the orange sun. Had to feed pure Ocean Plankton, Mysis and chopped krill, shrimp and fish, no mixes.
It took one container feeding to make it open to feed, since then - in the tank twice a week feedings, 1 cube maybe - I'm mixing for all suns together.
Also always opens, time or not, when a pinch of dry Cyclop-eeze is dropped into the tank (90g)
framerguy:
Thank you! Gorgeous creatures. We have the same kind of Christmas tree rock. Only mine, that survived the toxic tank crash, bleached and regained color (all worms still alive) had the adult worms - crowns has ~6 rotations. Again, guessing about adult state, but seems logical.
Can I ask about intermittent skimming: how fast skimmer resumes making skimmate, hours or half of hour?
About feeding phyto - tried twice feed ESV dried phytoplankton to the tank, not corals, always get problem with water quality too. The good thing is, that it likely not necessary - mine lives on zooplankton for 1.5 yrs, no target feeding, the whole tank is fed. The worms, having 3/4" high crowns, are big enough to eat cyclop-eeze, in my understanding, but the for the small ones - other rocks - I'm giving ZoPlan (for you Golden Pearls or Roti-Feast could be more readily available), frozen rotifers, frozen baby brine sometimes, small particles, left after washing fish food.
My 2 cents
Keep it coming!