Ever wonder what happens when the lights go off?

[coralgazer]

welcome to my new reef tank, 36 gallon bow front, I am hopelessly addicted now. Please help me!

4 days ago I put my 1st coral in, a beautiful hammer coral, doing great. mail ordered 3 Small Florida Ricordias, also doing well.

Today I went to the LFS and wanted everything they had. Settled on one large green mushroom colony on Fiji live rock. Decided not to dip due to lots of favorable life animals found on rock. spend a lot of time arranging, Artistic side of this is fun. We have a fantastic iridescent flashlight, so I thought I would take these pics for you. Reef life at night! 1st is a hammer coral, 2nd is new mushroom colony, 3rd and 4th are new baby Ricordias.

 

[swayd]

Oh you just wait until you see some feeder tentacles, those are always amazing to look at when the lights are off!

 

[coralgazer]

From the hammer? Do they sting new corals>

 

[swayd]

I think all lps and sps have sweeper tentacles and yes they do stong so be careful where you place certain coral.

 

[nova65ss]

None of the corals in your pics will have sweepers at night. The hammer should close up after the lights are off for a bit. It may not close all the way but pretty close.

 

[spscrazy]

Hammers can extend sweepers up to 6 " at night and have a powerful sting.

 

[nova65ss]

Hammers can extend sweepers up to 6 " at night and have a powerful sting.

Interesting my frogspawn closes up completely at night always has. I thought a hammer was the same.

 

[T.W.]

AWESOME!!!

Oh I can hardly wait to start buying coral!!

 

[Dsdaley77]

Made me think of one of my favorite videos related to corals and their glow
Underwater fluorescence disco - Oceans - BBC - YouTube

 

[ReefPops]

That video's cool!

 

[cdness]

None of my hammers or frogspawns send out feeders... My favia on the other hand send the massive strings of death out every night...

Cool pics!

 

[Dsdaley77]

My only corals that send out sweepers are my Galaxea (little 2in frag but 8in sweepers) and a green Slimer that I had to get rid of (was getting to close to my Red Planet). I absolutely love putting on my led headlamp at night and checking everything out. I actually have a reminder set in my phone every two weeks to do a full search for bad guys at night since its easier to find them when my Zoas and everything else is deflated or closed

 

[ryanscott]

That video is amazing I wish I knew how to dive !!

 

[Steviereefs]

Cool pictures, and +1 on the video!!!