Best method to keep scolymia thriving?

[PegasisR]

Is temperature a factor too? i was doing some research and sources say that they need colder temps? like 77 degrees?

 

[SuncrestReef]

I target feed ReefRoids twice per week at night. I feed my fish LRS Reef Frenzy twice per day, and occasionally a chunk or two land on the scoly which it eagerly accepts.

Mine is on the sand near the front of the tank, so it’s getting direct light but doesn’t seem to mind.

Here’s a time lapse video when feeding ReefRoids:

 

[Joseqb77]

I'm a Scolly addict and have eight of them. From solid green to Master. These corals definitely require food but as already mentioned: once per week target fed is all you need otherwise food will accumulate under the mantel and rot. Reef Roids are excellent as they are easily accepted and digested. Roids however are particularly messy and can send your PO4 into overdrive if you're not careful. I mix it pretty thick consistency and spot feed (just that: a spot) on each Scolly at night when they are fully extended and ready to eat. I use a Red spectrum torch to see what I'm doing and so the animal doesn't recede, thinking it's lights on. I also blitz a ton of supermarket seafood in a blender in large batches and flatten it in a large ziplock bag and freeze it. Every other week I break a piece off and put it in a plastic container with a little sea water let it melt then shake it up. It's a medium fine blend and with a little Selcon in it when its sitting ready to be used that night it's also readily accepted by the Scollys as well as everything else. Scolymia like low light but not shade, like say sun coral, as they get some of their nutrition via the Zooxanthellae in their tissue. The like Low to Low-Medium flow. If their fleshy polyps are more than wobbling in the current then it's too high. The only thing I broadcast into my water column is Red Sea A&B my fish are fed frozen and my own blended sea food particulate with the exception of Nori for the Tangs: that's it. As for water parameters; just the usual reef prams. It's worth mentioning that my tank is mixed LPS and SPS and has a heavy bio-load with Nitrates at between 10-30 and Po4 at 0.20. Temp 26c. PH 8.3. Sal 1.025. Deltec Skimmer. 24/7 GAC in reactor. 2x Ecotech XR15 gen4 Radions on an 11 hour cycle.

Is there a certain size tank u would recommend for a scoly

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Is there a certain size tank u would recommend for a scoly

scoly's dont move, so any tank size will do

 

[Joseqb77]

scoly's dont move, so any tank size will do

Is this a scoly, I'm new to the hobby, it moves around get smaller then big when light comes on

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Is this a scoly, I'm new to the hobby, it moves around get smaller then big when light comes on

Do you mean the red in the bottom center? To be honest I dont know, its in a weird shape in that pic.

I would suggest to take a better pic and start a new thread, this thread is 3 years old so people might not click on it.

Like most corals, scoly does expand during the day and shrink at night, but it doesnt move, not at all.

 

[Joseqb77]

Do you mean the red in the bottom center? To be honest I dont know, its in a weird shape in that pic.

I would suggest to take a better pic and start a new thread, this thread is 3 years old so people might not click on it.

Like most corals, scoly does expand during the day and shrink at night, but it doesnt move, not at all.

Ok thanks, it's orange

 

[Roscovitch]

I’ve been keeping Scollys’ a long time right now I have about twenty from bleeding apples to so called master and ultra. The tank they are in is kept at 24c. There’s also Acros and other LPS thriving in this temperature. When a Scolly is hunting food it almost turns itself inside out even when others around it are closed. At that stage I may or may not hit it with about six tiny Fauna Marin pellets. It will take this food at least a week to be processed. I never feed anything which send my phosphate into overdrive like frenzy, chilli, or roids. I use two drops of KZ vitaliser twice a week and KZ coral booster every other day. I feed frozen and live to my fish twice a day and Nori twice a week for three Tangs but everything from the mystery wrasse to the CBB pick at the Nori. All Scollys are on the sand bed and in the open shade. If sand gets on them I blow it off when I see it. Flow is minimal where they live. Hope this helps. The Scolly in the picture is one of mine in feed me mode. I would never ever spray food on a closed coral.