Deep and dark - Elos 120XL deepwater biotope

[mark54321]

Few new pictures I took after feeding time

[IMG]tinkeri butterfly2 by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]sunset anthia female by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]red squat lobster by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]multicolor angel2 by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]red squat lobster2 by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]resplendent anthia by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]tinkeri butterfly by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]multicolor angel by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Twoface14]

Hey I see your keeping some sun corals. I just ordered some to give them a try as I have some shaded areas in my tank I wanted to fill and I got them for a good deal. They should be here next week. Any tips on care for them?

[Darth_Tater]

That Butterfly is very cool

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by Twoface14

Hey I see your keeping some sun corals. I just ordered some to give them a try as I have some shaded areas in my tank I wanted to fill and I got them for a good deal. They should be here next week. Any tips on care for them?

Yeah, I have few sun corals , my advice is to put them in decent but not direct flow, keep them off sand bed and feed them a lot. At least every other day some meaty foods like mysis, brine shrimp, anything you feed your fish. If you starve them, you will have big problem getting them to open again, so when you get them and you see their tentacles out, feed !!! First couple of weeks they need to restore their energy after being in transport or holding facility.

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by Darth_Tater

That Butterfly is very cool

My favorite fish, always wanted one, now I have one. Bonus is she destroyed my aiptasia population

[taricha]

Originally Posted by mark54321

Yeah, I have few sun corals , my advice is to put them in decent but not direct flow, keep them off sand bed and feed them a lot. At least every other day some meaty foods like mysis, brine shrimp, anything you feed your fish. If you starve them, you will have big problem getting them to open again, so when you get them and you see their tentacles out, feed !!! First couple of weeks they need to restore their energy after being in transport or holding facility.

Do your sun corals like to open same time every day? Mine kinda do.

[Twoface14]

Originally Posted by mark54321

Yeah, I have few sun corals , my advice is to put them in decent but not direct flow, keep them off sand bed and feed them a lot. At least every other day some meaty foods like mysis, brine shrimp, anything you feed your fish. If you starve them, you will have big problem getting them to open again, so when you get them and you see their tentacles out, feed !!! First couple of weeks they need to restore their energy after being in transport or holding facility.

Thanks for the advice mark! I've been in this hobby for 3 1/2 years now and have been doing fairly well. I figured I would try my hand at these types of corals. Right now I'm sps dominate but I have a great mixture of all. Just actually picked up some softies tonight

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by taricha

Do your sun corals like to open same time every day? Mine kinda do.

Mine are almost always open or half open, I don't feed at specific times, basically when I am near the tank I pour some food in, few times a week I target feed all suns and dendros. As soon as they smell the food they open completely.

[mark54321]

Originally Posted by Twoface14

Thanks for the advice mark! I've been in this hobby for 3 1/2 years now and have been doing fairly well. I figured I would try my hand at these types of corals. Right now I'm sps dominate but I have a great mixture of all. Just actually picked up some softies tonight

No problem, I wish you luck, they are not the most difficult corals, as long as their basic needs are met. But to me they are one of the most beautiful. I fell in love with those when I added a colony of dendro and sun coral to my SPS set up few years ago. Slowly I got more and more , until I gave up SPS and decided to go NPS exclusively.

This was my first attempt after converting from SPS, you can still see some zoas and other corals and way too much light.

[IMG]fts4 by Mark Mikina, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Twoface14]

Wow. Beautiful tank. They look like little flowers underwater

[FernandesReef]

Beautiful tank.
Elos make stunning tanks.
And shows you what knowledge about the hobby and time gives you.
Great work.


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[Poomba]

Any update?

[choss]

Mark,

Just catching up on your progress. Stunning tank. Did you ever figure out what was eating your corals?

[herpasian]

tinkeri is very very cool! But it will nip sun coral or not?