Coral placement

[motownjc]

Cant remember the name of the orange coral. Should i move it to the top of the rock or can i leave it on the side? The orange one in the middle of the tank.

 

[Reefer5640]

Is that a ricordea? It’s hard to see on my phone. If so mine do well in the lower light areas in my tank. I keep mine one the sandbed.

 

[motownjc]

That name does sound right. Maybe ill move it down a little.

 

[Reefer5640]

Not to say you should, everyone’s lighting is and flow is different. You’ll just have to go off what the coral responds to. Mine splits about every 2-3 of months depending on how much I feed them.

 

[motownjc]

Not to say you should, everyone’s lighting is and flow is different. You’ll just have to go off what the coral responds to. Mine splits about every 2-3 of months depending on how much I feed them.

What do you feed it?

 

[Reefer5640]

Brine shrimp or small mysis. Sometimes they’ll eat it sometimes they don’t...

Is this what you have? This pic is of multiple together rather than a single...

 

[Reefer5640]

What kind of lighting do you have out of curiosity?

 

[Shabalaba]

I would say everything looks good except that I would swap what I believe is an orange ricordea mushroom and your duncans. Duncans do not necessarily need to be that high up either, but mine got much happier when i took them from low to mid placement. (Different light, different tank, just my experience)

I have my ricordeas (and other mushrooms) all on or near the sandbed.

 

[motownjc]

I took the ricordeas and put them on the sand bed. Ill see if they act any different there.

As of now i dont feed my corals anything. I was thinking about starting very soon.

I am running a ai prime hd using saxby setttings.

 

[Palyzoa]

They should do fine on your sand bed with an AI Prime. That's where I keep mine and my prime is the non HD version. As for feeding I feed mine at least once a week. They like mysis shrimp

 

[Eastlake]

It looks like a Ricordea florida, it'll definitely be happier on the sand bed. And for quick reference, depending on what kind of system different corals came from when you get them it's usually a good idea to start corals low then move them up as they acclimate to the lights.

 

[aurora.k]

How do you feed them? Mine are happy and one is splitting, but I haven’t fed them (at least not intentionally ).Do you put the shrimp right to its mouth or use the cup method?

 

[Eastlake]

You can spot feed or feeding dome(cup or soda bottle lid) with various filter feeding foods or try larger items as well as mushrooms aren't all that picky, but, they get most of their nutritional needs like most other corals from their symbiotic zooxanthellae. Chances are pretty good to that they grab stuff as it passes by after you feed, mine like krill juice.