Main Menu
| |
Get on the Map!
| |
Forum Menu
| | 
12-13-2005, 07:26 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
Posts: 178
Karma: 10
 |  Yellow Polyps help!
I had bought a rock full of yellow polyps (yes, yellow polyps not star polyps or star burst or sun polyps) that seemed to be doing nicely, until my LFS informed me that I should be feeding them. They suggested phytoplankton, which I bought and tried giving them. When I did the couple times I did, they immediately closed up and wouldn't open back up until the next day. Now they have been dying 1 by 1. I've stopped feeding them, but they still are dying off. Any thoughts on why they'd be dying off or how to stop it? My water params are fine with the exception of my nitrates which still sit at about 20 ppm, but they were that way before when the polyps were doing fine too. Any help would be appreciated.
_________
55 gal glass tank, 2 power heads, wet/dry filter, protein skimmer, 50 lbs live rock, pair of tomato clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 coral beauty angel, 1 six line wrasse, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 12 assorted snails (astrea/turbo), 15 assorted hermit crabs, green bubble tip anemone, red mushrooms, yellow polyps, 1 green leather, green star polyps, yellow toadstool | 
|  | | Reef Links |  | |
12-13-2005, 07:38 PM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: St. Paul/Woodbury, Minnesota Age: 49
Posts: 1,181
|
I never feed my yellow polyps, they are photosynthetic but will glady accept morsels of food. Are they touching any other corals. These are aggressive stinging polyps, could they be fighting with another coral? Also what type of lighting do you have?
Try moving them to another spot in the tank! _________ 75g reef with Nova Extreme 8 bulb HO T-5 lighting, refuge, Remora skimmer, DSB, Seio powerheads, Acro's, LPS corals, assorted zoo's & mushrooms, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown, Blue Cleaner Goby , Cleaner, Fire and Sexy Shrimp, Coco Worm, T.Crocea Clam, Derasa Clam
120g FOWLR, 260w Orbit power compact lights, Remora Pro skimmer, 30g DIY Sump/Refuge, DSB,Seio Power heads, Powder Blue Tang, Purple Tang, Flag Fin Angel, False Eye Puffer, Copperbanded Butterfly and a Moorish Idol  | |
| | |
12-13-2005, 07:53 PM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Denver, CO,Colorado
Posts: 178
Karma: 10
|
They aren't near any other corals and never have been. I've got 260 W power compacts. You think they need to be moved up closer to the light maybe? | |
| | |
12-13-2005, 11:35 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Pgh. Pa. Age: 50
Posts: 84
Karma: 24
|  My story
I had the same problem. Bought aquarium w/yellow polyps. Guy said he never fed them (photosynthetic.) Had for 6 months and they were multiplying. I moved them to a slightly more agitated area of the tank (put a ricordia where they were) and they started dying. Moved them back and they continued to die off. All gone.
A biologist friend bought some 9 months ago. LFS said no need to feed. Soon they started to die off. He went to his books and book said feed them (although they are photosynthetic). He fed them and they are now multiplying.
So, I don't know what to tell you Mr. Bond! They seem to be highly sensitive to position or change of location? Logically, I have to think they would not have tentacles if they don't need fed. Many other marine animals are photosynthetic, but still use other means to acquire sustenance also (corals, clams, anemones, etc.) When I get more I will feed them.
Live long and prosper.  _________ Glass 90 and 110, skimmer in both 30 gal. sumps, 1150 GPH, plus a 75 gal fuge!! Yellow tang, several damsels, 2 lg flower anems, brown & rose BTA's (8" dia.) with 3 perculas, 5 ricordia, dozens shrooms, dozens of yellow, brown and green polyps, lots of snails, hermits, bugs and 3 inch worms. Mangroves, caulerpa, LR, LS, pics coming  | |
| | |
12-14-2005, 06:18 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: jonesboro, arkansas Age: 29
Posts: 215
Karma: 12
|
i think feeding them will depend on how much light they get. if they arent gettin gmuch light they will probably need to be fed. however i dont think you should target feed them. i have known people to have good luck with adding baby brine shrimp and phyto. jmo
_________
125 gallon glass. 3 10k 250w metal halides, 1 4ft 110w vho actinic. who knows how much live rock. yellow tang, domino, cinnamon clown, percula clown, flame angel,peppermint shrimp, camel shrimp, skunk shrimp, a few turbo snails, lots of hermit crabs, leather coral, branching frogspawn, mushrooms, too much xenia, and several different zoo's and button polyps | |
| | |
01-05-2006, 03:23 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Bay area, Ca Age: 23
Posts: 26
Karma: 6
|
The polyps you have dont even have a sp. name yet, i forget the genus. They are highly touchy, more so than any other coral i have. I had the same experience of them doing very well, moving them, and watching them die off. I never fed mine and they took over 1/4 of a 5 gallon under 26watts of pc, moved them about 4 inches and the never recovered. _________ 180 fowlr, nano cube DX w/ an ocellaris, abalone, hermits, orange fromia, J. Sprung style (no feeding/supplements/skimming/filter media  | |
| | |
01-05-2006, 05:26 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 20
Posts: 3,378
 
|
You can never go wrong with feeding the tank as a whole  The "Marine Plankton" (cousin of BioPlankton) is really good for the bigger guys _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1x 54W Blue Plus T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x54w Super Actinic Blue 03 T5 HO Flourescent
1x 54W 12000K Aquablue Special T5 HO Fluorescent, 1x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
100 lbs Fiji Live Rock
65 lbs Live sand
 | |
| | |
01-05-2006, 08:32 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
Posts: 1,200
|
I just picked up a nice frag today. 20+ yellow polyps and a zoo colony with button polyps. All one big happy family. I'm gonna attempt to spot feed them Sunday and update you guys on how well they respond to feeding.
Before this frag, I had another small frag of yellow polyps. Moved them up high to the light, but still died. I really think these guys need a feeding once in a while. Maybe it was my crappy lighting setup I had before, but I did notice that once they are dying off, that's it, you will not be able to bring these polyps back.
_________
30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol.
Last edited by rickzter : 01-05-2006 at 08:42 PM.
| |
| | |
01-12-2006, 06:45 AM
|
#9 (permalink)
| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami, FL,Florida
Posts: 352
Karma: 46
|
My experience with them is that they are really picky about water quality. I've had Yellow polyps for well over 2 yrs now and the only seem to retract when the water change is due, or when the salinity is out of wack. Bare in mind that I have moved twice since having them in the tank.
They are photosynthetic. However, I will also include that during the time that I had sunpolyps in with them they seemed to be doing best. They seemed to enjoy when I soaked the cyclopeeze (in a brine shrimp net) for the sunpolyps and the phyto.
But they were doing fine before that as well. The one thing I do know for sure is that they are really demanding of high water quality. _________ &&&&20 Gal. , Millenium 1000 & 2000 filter, 130watt Corallife 50/50 reef lamp. Maroon Gold-striped Clown, Pygmy (Cherub) Angel, Skunk Cleaner shrimp, 8 Turbo Snails, 1 unknown cone snail , a branch of red grape calerpa , Sun Polyps, Blue-Green Striped shroom, Red shroom, Zoo Polyp colonies, & Green Star polyps, green monti. | |
| | |
01-20-2006, 03:06 PM
|
#10 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
Posts: 3,850
  |
Hello,
I have yellow polyps as well and i have to tell you they are pretty hard to figure out. Light wise, I have 5 watts per gallon in my two tanks. At the time, they were doing fine along with all of my other corals. Then I started losing my polyps slowly but surely. I finally realized what the problem was. My light had not been changed in about 9 months. And for pc's they need to be changed around that time...the lights may still be bright, however, the power(lumens) decreases drastically. What i'm trying to say is that light has an impact on polyps.
The other thing is that i feed my button and yellow polyps brine shrimp from a feeder(like an eye dropper). They love it and grow big and spread pretty fast. Try coaxing them to come out as you would with sun polyps by offering them brine shrimp. Trust me it will work!
best of luck!
tom | 
| | | Reef Links |  | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT -7. The time now is 05:13 AM. |
