cyclopeez feeding to sun corals (1 Viewer)

[darrin]

ok sherri,, so i am new at this..

i am trying to feed cyclopeez to my suncoral through a dropper into a half cut coke bottle but the darn stuff kinda just floats out the bottle... so i put the coke lid on and it just kinda floats under the cap... think it is gettting enough or do i need another method?

 

[AggieBrandon]

darrin,

Are you feeding the frozen cyclopeeze or the freeze dried cyclopeeze.

It sounds to me that you are trying the freeze dried. If so you need to aquire some of the frozen...it doesn't float but rather slowly sinks.

Maybe another method to try is put the lid on the soda bottle and drill a hole large enough for a turkey baster tip to fit in. Use the baster to slowly circulate the water back and forth in the feeding hat to keep the cyclopeeze moving around. Not sure how the coral will react to the water flow but i'm sure it will help some.

Brandon

 

[Cakepro]

Hi Darrin ~

If you do not have aggressive fish that will bother your sun coral while it eats, you may acheive better results if you do the following:

1. Turn off all pumps & powerheads

2. Thaw your frozen Cyclop-Eeze in some tank water, then draw it up into a syringe fitted with a length of rigid airline tubing.

3. Target feed your sun coral's polyps with slow, gentle depressions of the syringe's plunger. The food will fall in little puffs right onto the sun coral. You have to feed kinda heavily because C.E. is so small. Just having a whirlwind of it whizzing around in a feeding hat may not be enough nourishment for the colony. You could always supplement with meaty Piscene Energetics frozen mysis shrimp every other feeding, though, if you need to do the feeding hat method.

When you "chum" the water, does the sun coral respond and open its polyps to feed? If its tentacles are not extended, it won't do any good to try to feed it.

~ Sherri

 

[boudster]

sun coral

My sun coral eats pellets, flakes, cyclope-eeze or basically anything else I squirt at it. i just slowly squirt it out of the baster onto the polyps and they eat it up. I keep mine higher in the tank so it's easy to feed. It seems to get healthier and healthier every day.

 

[darrin]

it does not come out fast... slowly.. like about 20 minutes to open up... it was not doing so good which is why i am trying the cyclopseez...

and it is not frozen... it is freezdried and it floats up...

 

[Cakepro]

I say ditch the freezedried and find some frozen. That's normal for it to take its sweet time to open up and it's great that it's responding to food in the water. Until you can get frozen C.E. maybe you should try feeding it meaty foods.

~ Sherri