Black Sun Coral..

[indecloudzua]

Anyone that got some of the frags at the meeting seeing any heads on theirs?

 

[jc_k]

Yap. Lots of the heads on mine are damaged. It looks like some of then got a little fuller. I'm gong to try and feed it tonight.

 

[indecloudzua]

K..I must've gotten a dead piece. Oh well..chalice is doing good.!! Post pics if you can. They look pretty cool

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[jc_k]

Here It is.

It's a close up so sorry if it's a little blurry.

 

[raz0945]

Keep feeding the black suncoral each night at the same time, keep it out of the light, it sometimes takes time for them to come out. I'm baster feeding a mixture of mysis, cyclopeze, and oyster eggs, the same my yellow sun coral eats.

 

[jc_k]

Raz0945;934500 wrote: Keep feeding the black suncoral each night at the same time, keep it out of the light, it sometimes takes time for them to come out. I'm baster feeding a mixture of mysis, cyclopeze, and oyster eggs, the same my yellow sun coral eats.

Is yellow sun coral the same as black? Just a different color.

 

[indecloudzua]

Mine is def out of the light..hasn't reacted to feedings. I only made a 1" frag so not that many heads

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[jc_k]

Well do the heads looked puffed up at all? Or just skeleton?

 

[indecloudzua]

Just skeleton

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[jc_k]

Oh... Well wish you luck on getting it to come out.

 

[indecloudzua]

Thanks. I'll keep at it.

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[raz0945]

They come in yellow, orange and black, the black is a little more rare and from a few articals I've read more light sensitive. I hope ours make it! Melevsreef.com has a nice artical (he has been a speaker for our club several times, he made one of our Bean overflows) on Sun Corals and anemones. GREAT GUY!

I_will_always_learn;934501 wrote: Is yellow sun coral the same as black? Just a different color.

 

[mikesmith34]

From what I read on advanced aquairium there is little to zero chance of a black sun coral surviving in captivity unless this is some other type ?? Mine remains a skeleton as well. No polyps. In fact on AA it stated that black sun coral is some what of a black listed coral due to survivabilty. Maybe that's the reason a lot of us has never seen it.

Someone please tell me that what we have is a different type!!

 

[indecloudzua]

Was it donated by The Aviarium?

 

[mikesmith34]

I hate to say I can't remember which one was donated by whom. It was certainly very generous of them all! Those were some huge corals.

 

[jdavid]

The sun coral can survive in captivity. I've seen it. In fact Dylan has a nice one for a long time now.

If your coral is not turning white, it's not a skeleton.

And yes they did come from the Aviarium, along with the chalice, favia, and bubble tip anemones.

 

[indecloudzua]

yes they were. i know nemo's donated a few as well. very nice of the sponsors that did. I havent made it by a nemo's yet but plan on doing so next time im in atl.

 

[tater]

We donated the black sun corals, but I've never heard anything about them being harder to keep or having any kind of restrictions as far as collection. It's just a variation of sun coral so it shouldn't be any harder then any other. Try putting some liquid foods to get its polyps out. Reef snow, roe, reef chili, oyster feast all have worked for me. Hope everyone takes good care of theirs and enjoys them!
Also I only had them a day or two before I donated them so they could just be a little wigged out from constant transportation.

 

[indecloudzua]

Cool . Thanks for the donation! Hopefully mine will open up

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[jc_k]

Just squirted some mysis juice on mine... Hopefully it feed in a couple of mins.