Yellow Sun Coral Placement

[BriGuy]

From my understanding you do not want to place sun coral right under your lights, but to place it in darkness in a tank makes it a pain to try to feed. I picked up a small 4 head frag the other day, and it is opening up at night so I know its still alive. So I am asking the gang here, what has been anyone experience with Sun Coral, and how paranoid do I need to be about the lighting? 29g Oceanic with original lighting.

Thanks,
BriGuy

[ErikH]

I have heard many people have great success getting sun corals to come out during the day by feeding Rod's Food....

[Kristy]

We've got a sun coral and it seems to do better since we moved it under a ledge, low in the tank. Just remember that they are not photosynthetic so you need to hit it with food when the heads are open in order for it to survive.

[MeteorFlower]

I babysat a yellow sun coral frag that did perfectly well sitting out in the open on a reef plug in my sandbed. When it was given to me, it only had one head, and it was dying from the bottom up (lower half was nothing but bare skeleton - hadn't been fed in ages!). In the time I had it, it not only regrew the tissue it had lost, but it developed two new heads as well! I had no idea they were supposed to be sensitive to light... it was out a lot during the day, and loved the mysis I gave it. I guess it was just a survivor!

[fishn]

I put mine where they look the best and where thay are easy to feed. I have never had any problems with them in direct light.

[Captain Jack]

I have never had sun coral, but I just read an article in Tropical Fish magazine about sun corals, and the author said it was a miss conception that suncorals need to be out of the light. The fact is that they don't need any light because they lack the photosynthetic zooxan-whats-its but brighter light did nothing to harm them. so you might as well put them in the light, where they probably get better circulation than the in some dark spot. just be ready to feed each polyp every day.

[fjr_wertheimber]

zcatzmeow has had wonderful success with the suncoral she's got; the key is spot feeding each of those heads. It can be a pain, but worth it if you want a truly stunning piece.