New biocube 14

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A few more

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My favorite coral.

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A few pics of the sun coral this morning. 1 or 2 more days of feeding I should have it fully bloomed out(I hope)

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Ok, well I got this chili coral yesterday. Im really glad to see it opened up already. Still looks like it has a way to go to be 100% happy, but I'm happy so far. If anyone has any experience with these guys, please let me know what you think.

[Europhyllia]

For me the thing with chili corals is FLOW. If your flow is right it will open every night like clock work. Tweak the flow a little bit in the wrong direction and it shuts down. It's a picky little critter. When the flow is right (and I'm still tweaking because I need my gorgs to be happy too) it opens overnight and stays open awhile after the lights come on.
It's definitely most active for me in the dark so I feed it before lights come on.
Love the sun coral. Those are my favorite as well.
You can always try feeding a little and then waiting 10-15 minutes until all of the polyps are out until you serve up the big meal.

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Thanks, I was hopeing you would respond. By the way I love your tank.. My new 45g project is going to be a NPS tank for sure.

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What do you feed your chili? I tempted mine last night with zooplex, mini mysis

[Europhyllia]

Thanks. The chili's (at least the one I have) polyps seem kind of small for mysis.
Since it's a soft coral I expect it to also take in a good amount of phyto (culture my own now but used DT's before)
My small polyped corals get:
rotifers
oyster eggs
prawn eggs (really like those)
cyclop-eez
Fauna Marin food for seafans and filter feeders
cyclops

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Thanks, ...now I have another shopping list. Yeah..hahaha

[Europhyllia]

add a Kent Sea Squirt to that ;) (got to drill the hole a little bigger though or else the mysis will get stuck)