New Favia questions

[Brian1f1]

Hello,

I picked up this favia at TSM Sunday. It’s pretty spectacularly colored, really want to make sure it thrives. I moved it up off the sand bed a bit yesterday because sand was settling on it a little. Its just sitting on a flat angled rock, was wondering if I should glue it?

I never had a favia before, I was wondering if it should expand at all? It generally always looks as pictured. No noticeable expansion. The mouths occasionally open briefly. I have never really seen feeding tentacles to speak of, even after dark with food introduced (it might have a few extremely tiny ones).

So, it is normal to look relatively static or is it stressed? I don’t want it to suddenly decline. I’ve heard some can look like mine and not vary much in appearance, but wanted to get the community’s thoughts.

Thanks, as ever.

 

[andrewkw]

When you glue it to the rock make sure it has an easy path to grow onto the rock and doesn't end up just ground around itself. You may need to use some epoxy to create a ramp to make it easier for it to grow. It looks pretty healthy in your photo. What happens when you target feed it?

 

[Brian1f1]

When you glue it to the rock make sure it has an easy path to grow onto the rock and doesn't end up just ground around itself. You may need to use some epoxy to create a ramp to make it easier for it to grow. It looks pretty healthy in your photo. What happens when you target feed it?

Nothing happens! That’s my only concern. It generally looks like that, no expansion / tentacles.

 

[WV Reefer]

Hello,

I picked up this favia at TSM Sunday. It’s pretty spectacularly colored, really want to make sure it thrives. I moved it up off the sand bed a bit yesterday because sand was settling on it a little. Its just sitting on a flat angled rock, was wondering if I should glue it?

I never had a favia before, I was wondering if it should expand at all? It generally always looks as pictured. No noticeable expansion. The mouths occasionally open briefly. I have never really seen feeding tentacles to speak of, even after dark with food introduced (it might have a few extremely tiny ones).

So, it is normal to look relatively static or is it stressed? I don’t want it to suddenly decline. I’ve heard some can look like mine and not vary much in appearance, but wanted to get the community’s thoughts.

Thanks, as ever.

Both of my Favia are in high light and high flow. Watch out for its sweepers because they are mean!

 

[miyags]

Looks normal.I have 4 of that type of coral,in different color combos. I feed fauna marin LPS pellets once a week.They like Alk around 9to10, they start to stress when it falls bellow 7.

 

[Brian1f1]

Same coral, I was able to get it to eat mysis I laid on it. No tentacles, just sort of opened it’s mouth and engulfed them. That was Thursday. New question, today it’s mouth were all open (not able to check now) and brownish stuff was coming out. Is this just waste? I’ve never had one of these, so trying to understand it’s normal functions.

As an aside, are we unable to post videos? I have a clip that shows it better than the photo, but can’t figure it out.

Thanks again

 

[WV Reefer]

Same coral, I was able to get it to eat mysis I laid on it. No tentacles, just sort of opened it’s mouth and engulfed them. That was Thursday. New question, today it’s mouth were all open (not able to check now) and brownish stuff was coming out. Is this just waste? I’ve never had one of these, so trying to understand it’s normal functions.

As an aside, are we unable to post videos? I have a clip that shows it better than the photo, but can’t figure it out.

Thanks again

It was probably just pooping.

 

[Brian1f1]

It was probably just pooping.

I’ve never seen my other corals poop. Interesting. Ha

 

[WV Reefer]

I’ve never seen my other corals poop. Interesting. Ha

If they eat, they poop.

 

[Brian1f1]

I have a book about that here somewhere.