Key to keeping Aussie Scoly's Alive?

Shells · Apr 10, 2009

I have found that feeding them directly is the only way to keep them alive. When the lights are out they will have their feelers out and take food very quickly. If you try to feed them during the day, you can sometimes force them to take the food but you have to keep the food on them for a while until they take it and in the mean time fight off everything else trying to take the food (a pain).

I have also found that once they start going down hill it is hard to bring them back. And what ever you do, when they start going down hill dont move them up high in tank so they are easy to reach (thinking you can feed them easier) I lost one in a day doing this.

Reef-N-Chicago · Apr 15, 2009

Do they prefer to be fed at night?

Reef-N-Chicago · Apr 19, 2009

anyone!!

coral88 · Apr 19, 2009

Mine likes to eat at night. I can normally get it to eat a few minutes before lights out.
Mine had a bad spot but has been coming back strong ever since I started feeding 2-3 time a week with mysis. And I'm not stingy with the food they will eat a lot. I even feed it dime to nickel size shrimp from time to time. Hope that helps

and good luck

Saltysteele · Apr 19, 2009

i've got a cyna, a cousin of the scoly's, and i've been a bad daddy, too. when i try to feed it with lights on, it will only slime a bit, and loosely grab onto the food (feed small cocktail shrimp). it does try to feed at night, though. i'll try to feed it tomorrow night during lights out (i'm at work tonight).

thanks for the tip! (even though this isn't even my thread

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Hypertek99 · Apr 19, 2009

I feed mine in the morning when the lights are on. It's always hungry!!!

Reef-N-Chicago · Apr 19, 2009

thanks everyone! I appreciate the answers....

will test all times and report back!

Reef Empire · Apr 19, 2009

This one will do this every time we add food. We use mysis, rotifers, and cyclops, all soaked in some WM HUFA. This goes on about 3 times a week, any time of the day.
Aussie Scolymia Eating

benny z · Jan 30, 2014

*bump

can anyone provide the specific details for the mentioned amino acid bathing? looking for dilution and duration details.

thanks!

ebushrow · Jan 30, 2014

I often rub some pellet food between my fingers in the tanks and within a couple of minutes the tentacles come out with a vengeance....doesn't matter whet time of day or lighting....and as everyone has said they are always hungry...but be warned that the coral can only digest the food at a certain pace and over feeding can allow the undigested food to rot inside the scoly and kill it quickly...haven't done it yet....but I have seen it happen....

Rev, try some fauna Marin LPS pellets or the coral frenzy version....mine seem to like both.....but it is really not picky either...

ebushrow · Jan 30, 2014

benny z said:
*bump

can anyone provide the specific details for the mentioned amino acid bathing? looking for dilution and duration details.

thanks!

I don't specifically bathe the corals, however, I add aquavitro fuel to my tank every day, and that seems to keep things happy....

revhtree · Jan 30, 2014

I have learned quite a bit more about them since 2009. One of the things I was doing was burning them with too much light!

rogersb · Jan 30, 2014

This thread is almost 5 years old, but I'll give my 2 cents on the feeding and whether it's really needed or not. I have 2 in my DT right now that I feed a couple of pellets to during water changes. I put them flat on the sand bed and place a 2 liter soda bottle top over them (just cut the bottle above the wrapper). The food goes through the opening, and keeps the scoly from being harassed while it eats.

In my sump I have a scoly coming back that had no mouth, only its outer fleshy ring. After about 10 months it is starting to reform and has grown 3 mouths out from the fleshy ring. Without a mouth it was probably not really eating and I wasn't feeding it. So, is feeding really needed? Probably not but it might make them grow/recover faster.