I will look for your thread. Thank you.
Try feeding it a mix of pellet and frozen foods. I’m pretty sure they like to be fed every 2/3 days. Try pellet then a couple days later frozen via a turkey baster and go back and forth. wishing you luck!
With such a large mouth and being NPS, I would assume meatier foods would be better.
That’s a great idea! Thank you, I will do that.
That makes sense. I gave it mysis last night. Today I gave it LPS pellets with the Julian Sprung feeder and then powder broadcasted. I need to check how sticky the tentacles are. Maybe I will place a pice of krill to see.
I’m going to try some clams I have in the freezer later. If successful, I’ll let you know.
2-3x week is adequate. 3x in one day is a bit much
I did that because someone else suggested it.
Great, thanks!
I'm glad to hear that this coral is doing much better now. I would love to see a new photo.
Yours looks great! I think you are right about it needing something we don’t know it needs. Mine is extending more tenticles and looking healthier. I feed it mysis and also a silverside piece or head every other day.Here it is.
I have a Balanophyllia that looks a lot like this one. When I first introduced it it looked fabulous but over the course of 6 months it gradually faltered despite me feeding it more (or less) with slower/higher flow etc. No matter what I tried the flesh kept receding at the base. I was so close to throwing in the towel with it but decided to moved it to the sump instead. It struggled down there for at least another 6 months. Sometimes I would not feed it for weeks but still it hung on. At its worst it only had half a mouth left but eventually for some reason it began to pick up again and regrow, why? I honestly have no idea. My pet theory was that it had a bacterial infection but that's just a feeling.
Anyway I've had it almost 3 years and it looks great again now, in fact I've just moved it to a new tank and given it pride of place at the front. One thing I will say is that it's not as vibrant as when I first got it. I've tried numerous different foods but I can't get it to regain the original colouration. Something must be missing from its diet I guess, I'm just happy that it's still alive.
When it was first added (June 2017):
October 2019:
I must get an updated photo soon.
Yes they do like silversides and engulf the entire head if given one! I also still blast it with some mysis and it enjoys that too!I second what LisaAP said. I think what you have is Balanophyllia.
I bought mine too from a LFS and thought I had gotten a steal on a rhizo!
Still an awesome coral, I feed mine silverside heads since my fish aren't really into them.
