black sun coral

[coralfish keeper]

Hi I was wondering if anyone has more info on black sun coral (Tubastrea micrantha). i bought one for my wife cause she just loved it when she seen it I found some info on it on the web but i want to know its husbandry so i can have it florish for her she is so happy we got it

this is the only pic i can find of it at the time any help would awesome thank you all ahead of time

 

[nova65ss]

I have a yellow in my tank it has been about two years now. Seems pretty easy to keep for me. It is in the middle under t5s. When I first got it I would feed it a couple of times a week but now I never do. It really only ever opens right after feeding the tank and when the lights are out at night. Grows pretty slow for me maybe because I do not feed it. Started out with three heads and now has about eight.

 

[coralfish keeper]

thank you when i feed my other corals i shut down the pumps for a few min so they can feed at that time i feed the carpet anemone silver sides i was going to feed it some to the black sun coral every other day or 3 days

 

[M&M]

I had one for a while but they need to eat a lot more than yellow. I fed mine almost everyday and after 4 months it died anyway.Tissue was receding slowly , I think from lack of food. All my yellow sun corals and dendros doing great, but could not keep this one alive.

 

[coralfish keeper]

i want to feed it a mix of silver sides and squid with some decapsulated brine shrimp eggs all mixed together how dose that sound i feed it to the carpet anemone and its huge now about a dinner plate big and when we got him it was only 3 inches across

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I fed mine mysis everyday,was doing great.I traded it for another coral.It didn't grow as fast as my yellow which are fed everyday as well.

 

[jedimasterben]

Definitely feed them as often as possible. I started noticing tissue recession as soon as I stopped feeding it as much (I moved all my fish out of the tank into QT), and I'm feeding it more now and the recession has stopped, but hasn't grown back over it yet. :/