Jeremy's 16G Nano

[jdurling]

Added some new corals, and re-arranged some live rock.

Brain, sun coral, aussie frag (not actually sure what it is ...), and a coco worm.

[kazam]

Nice. Glad to see the animals are doing great. That is a nice Sun Polyp frag you got from Kevin.

[Rachelle]

Nice! Do you find your sun coral hard to take care of?

[jcustance]

Tank's looking great man.

[jdurling]

Thanks everyone. And Rachelle, the sun corals only presents difficulty when feeding. I've moved them around the tank, and they don't seem to be too picky about light/flow. I've been using the top of a pop bottle (pretty common technique) to target feed, and it really helps keep the inverts off. I removed the cover early on the first night, and within seconds, my cleaner shrimp was over there ripping the mysis out of one of the polyps ... so now I just leave it until morning. Some of the polyps are slow eaters That, or they bite off more than they can chew (figuratively speaking, of course).

[Rachelle]

(02-08-2010 04:43 PM)jdurling Wrote:  Thanks everyone. And Rachelle, the sun corals only presents difficulty when feeding. I've moved them around the tank, and they don't seem to be too picky about light/flow. I've been using the top of a pop bottle (pretty common technique) to target feed, and it really helps keep the inverts off. I removed the cover early on the first night, and within seconds, my cleaner shrimp was over there ripping the mysis out of one of the polyps ... so now I just leave it until morning. Some of the polyps are slow eaters That, or they bite off more than they can chew (figuratively speaking, of course).

Thanks! The sun coral is one of my favorite corals. I've heard about people target feeding them like that every single day! I suppose you have to be really dedicated to do that every day!

[Nihoa]

i always give our cleaner shrimp a hunk of squid or something to chew on if im trying to feed the anemones or lps.

[cindyreef]

Nice setup. Quite colorful already too.

[kevin S]

Jeremy, I'm glad that you are enjoying the sun coral....looking good! You don't have to feed them every day, three time a week will be good, unless you want to feed them every day

[jdurling]

Yeah, I've noticed that every 2-3 days is best for these guys. I tried doing back to back feedings (one day, then the next), but they did not take on the second day, which is fine by me! Less work is good. I can deal with that!!