No polyps

[Zoafreek]

I picked this up bout a month ago, and still haven't seen any polyps extension on it, not sure if i should be worried or not. I'd blame it on not feeding the right stuff but the other one I have is doing great.

Umbellulifera species

The polyps on this one are out constantly and its starting to grow up the rockwork already.

Scleronephthya species

Anyone have any experience with these type of coral?

 

[swannyson7]

Are you keeping them in a NPS tank with constant feedings? I'm an absolute novice when it comes to NPS corals, but what are you trying to feed them? I'm sure some of the NPS pros will chime in...

 

[Zoafreek]

It's currently in a mixed reef, but that tank is gonna be torn apart in about a month to pull out a couple of fish. My mimic elibi tang is getting super aggressive towards my leopard wrasse so the tang is going bye bye. I think I may take out all the sps and put them in my frag tank and just keep the NPS and zoas in this tank.

I feed the tank as a whole live rotifers, frozen rotifers, live baby brine, used to do live phyto but switched to bottled, cyclopeeze, marine snow, microinvert, zoplan, phytoplan, and a couple other things too. I try to feed a little bit of everything so all the coral get what they need. So far the orange & purple silk flower tree coral is the only one that doesn't appear to be feeding. I moved it to a new location closer to the orange/yellow one thats doing great, been there a couple days with no change.

 

[Harald]

Hello
The corals have too little flow. That's the problem.

 

[UCedumacasion]

I've also found they like phyto on the reg. We had one at a shop that wouldn't do anything. I pumped his cube full of phyto and he stood back up in less than an hour. You gotta "overfeed" your tank to keep NPS happy. Its a delicate balance.

 

[skinz78]

+1 for more flow and they need quite an abundance of food to be happy. If you watch video's of them in the wild reefs they are blowing all over the place in the currents.

 

[Zoafreek]

Finally got some polyps out on this coral. I tried a couple dark higher flow areas with no luck, then tried a place that had high flow and quite a bit of light and the next day all the polyps came out. Not sure if the light truely had any influence over it or not.

I have 3 pieces of the orange one all throughout my tank and they never don't have their polyps extended