Sun God Leptoseris care

Mr Banker · Jan 24, 2016

So I was wondering everyone's thoughts/input on leptoseris and more specifically sun god leptoseris?

A. Total water volume ( Please include sump, etc.) 25g

B. What are your parameters? ( CA, ALK, PO4,Salinity, etc.)
Ca-420. Alk- 9dkh PO4- 0.02 - 0.04
C. Type of lighting. Please include age, watts, and bulb/ballast name.
Kessil a360we 6 months old
D. Filtration method (Skimmer, GFO, DSB, etc.) eshopps psk 75h, hob filter with chemi pure blue

E. What types of corals do you keep other than SPS? Mixed reef predominantly lps (blastos, favia, leptastrea, hammer)

F. How long has the tank been running? A little over a year

G. What are you dosing? Dosing schedule? Just calcium and alk

H. Which brand of salt are you using? Reef salt

I. What brand of test kits are you employing? Red Sea

J. What are you using for CA/ALK supplementation? Sicce 3 part. Magnesium is usually maintained by weekly water changes

K. What are you using for flow? (Pump names, how many, placement, etc.) 3 sicce voyager nano

Midasreefs · Jan 24, 2016

I'm in no means a "professional" at this but I keep many different types of Leptos. My sun god has been growing great in low flow on my frag rack with a piece of paper on my screen (between the light and the frag rack) this allows for a low light environment. With that being said some of my other Leptos prefer higher flow/light. Because of different tank setups, I would suggest starting it off in low light and low flow then move it around to see where it flourishes best. Again, I wouldn't consider myself a "professional" but I have been keeping Leptos for quite a few years and that's what's worked best for me.
Best of luck!!

Mr Banker · Jan 24, 2016

Midasreefs said:
I'm in no means a "professional" at this but I keep many different types of Leptos. My sun god has been growing great in low flow on my frag rack with a piece of paper on my screen (between the light and the frag rack) this allows for a low light environment. With that being said some of my other Leptos prefer higher flow/light. Because of different tank setups, I would suggest starting it off in low light and low flow then move it around to see where it flourishes best. Again, I wouldn't consider myself a "professional" but I have been keeping Leptos for quite a few years and that's what's worked best for me.
Best of luck!!

That's where it's currently placed. Thanks for the info!

stacy_vennes · Jan 24, 2016

ok I was told I have a jack O Lantern lepto. Is that what I have? I have no idea about lepto either.

sorry for the bad pic

stacy_vennes · Jan 24, 2016

when the blues are on it has yellow spots too

Mr Banker · Jan 24, 2016

stacy_vennes said:
when the blues are on it has yellow spots too

It's kind of a bad pic but if it has yellow mouths then it should be jack o lantern

stacy_vennes · Jan 24, 2016

yeah its a bad pic lol buy when the blues come on the mouths are yellow. it was given to me. Are they encrusting coral?

Mr Banker · Jan 24, 2016

They can be, but they can plate as well

Reefinny · Jan 24, 2016

Does it look like this?

stacy_vennes · Jan 24, 2016

it sure does

Reefinny · Jan 25, 2016

Then yes thats it!

Mr Banker · Jan 25, 2016

Midasreefs said:
I'm in no means a "professional" at this but I keep many different types of Leptos. My sun god has been growing great in low flow on my frag rack with a piece of paper on my screen (between the light and the frag rack) this allows for a low light environment. With that being said some of my other Leptos prefer higher flow/light. Because of different tank setups, I would suggest starting it off in low light and low flow then move it around to see where it flourishes best. Again, I wouldn't consider myself a "professional" but I have been keeping Leptos for quite a few years and that's what's worked best for me.
Best of luck!!

I was wondering if you have noticed sweeper tentacles at night on any of your specimens?

Midasreefs · Jan 25, 2016

Yes! I feed them Brightwell Microvore every few days, really brightens up their color.

Tab28 · Jan 25, 2016

stacy_vennes said:
ok I was told I have a jack O Lantern lepto. Is that what I have? I have no idea about lepto either.
sorry for the bad pic

Doesn't look like jack-o-lantern.

stacy_vennes · Jan 25, 2016

I know. My phone takes very bad tank pictures. But to see it in person, it's beautiful. I tried to take other pictures of it. But they don't look right

stacy_vennes · Jan 25, 2016

How did you get a good picture of yours?

Tab28 · Jan 25, 2016

Jack-o-lantern has dark orange stripes over a lighter orange body with bright green eyes. the eyes look like they glow in the dark

stacy_vennes · Jan 25, 2016

from everything I have seen over looking it up it is a jack o lantern. There are several pictures I have seen that are identical to the one I have. It's a very bad picture of the one I have. When looking them up I have seen a small difference in colors. Some do have dark orange stripes some didn't.

mine looks like this one, again I cant get a good picture I have tried but failed.
then there is one that looks like this

they are calling it a cornbread jack o lantern

glweek · Feb 1, 2016

"cornbread" jack o lantern just means that the picture is oversaturated as all hell to make it look better then it actually does in real life so he can make more money off of the same thing everyone else is selling.