Euphyllia Polyp Extension

[hockeyhead019]

Hey everybody,

Just curious what people have had the best luck with in terms of getting good extension out of their euphyllia's.

I have a frogspawn and I've seen inappropriate reefer's tank on YT and he has great polyp extension on his frogspawn. I've seen a couple other tanks doing great with it as well.

I have a 20g long tank with a Jabeo WP-10 on it's lowest setting (about 500gph) a return of 200gph and another small powerhead to have some flow along the back of the tank.

I would classify the flow as med flow over it and it's half way up my tank with roughly 190 par (based on OEM par map). I'm open to suggestions to turn down the flow some more.

Water Params:
pH: ~8.1
Ammonia: 0
Trites: 0
Trates: ~5ppm
Kh: 8.6
Calc: 480ppm

I get maybe 1/4-1/2" extension on my frogspawn, it's not huge but I would expect a little more extension than that? It's up to 6 heads from 3 when I got it. So I think it's happy but curious why I don't have good polyp extension like I've seen on others tanks?

 

[James M]

Feedings

 

[DSC reef]

Could be lighting, flow etc. There were different times of the day where our euphyllia would be massive and then partly retracted as the way went on. Can you post some pics.

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

Have you tried feeding it?

This pic is a tank that I do. I added a 6 polyp FS, and within 3 years had this forest of FS...4 colonies, 10-13” in diameter (I have basketball player hands).

What’s the key? Not sure. But I do know that they are directly under an auto feeder that dumps pellets in twice a day and a lot of the pellets settle right onto the polyps.

Tank params are nothing special....dKH - 8-9, NO3 ~25, PO4 ~ 0.05-0.07. AI 52HDs, moderate pulsing flow

 

[hockeyhead019]

What do you all recommend I feed with? I target feed my duncan and acan with normal pellet food or some dried brine shrimp. Not sure what to feed the frogspawn? They don't seem to take either of those. Maybe I should switch to frozen food and just feed the tank?

 

[Evan28395950]

What do you all recommend I feed with? I target feed my duncan and acan with normal pellet food or some dried brine shrimp. Not sure what to feed the frogspawn? They don't seem to take either of those. Maybe I should switch to frozen food and just feed the tank?

Mine like frozen food, but I have to make sure to turn off my powerhead for alittle so the frogspawn has time to take it in. By time I mean like 15mins

 

[hockeyhead019]

Mine like frozen food, but I have to make sure to turn off my powerhead for alittle so the frogspawn has time to take it in. By time I mean like 15mins

Good to know, thank you! I can kill my main power head for 10 mins (automatically). I'll give some frozen food a shot in the next couple weeks and see if that helps.

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

I’m a big fan of the Reef Nutrition foods.

For Euphyllia, I like the fish eggs (ROE) and the ArctiPods. Fish, anemones, and any other coral that can catch it loves it as well, so I tend to feed it liberally. Pretty concentrated, and will stay in suspension for a long time.

Once they really start opening and feeding, you can give them dang near anything. Smaller is better.

 

[KrisReef]

I've had good results using pelleted foods 1x/day Coral Frenzy with many different LPS enjoying that food. I also broadcast feed my sps with Reef Roids, and I suspect some of that gets swept up by the lps also, along with bits and pieces of the foods that the fish miss. They have mouths and love to eat whatever the current brings them.

 

[DSC reef]

Had great success with reef nutrition and LRS reef frenzy. The entire tank would respond.

 

[jabberwock]

I cut the top third of of a 2 liter bottle to create a feeding dome for my corals. Helps to keep the fish from snatching the food out of their mouths.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

For me it seems more flow more compact and less flow more extension. I have three hammers near each other and one with least flow spreads the most and one with the most is more compact.

Exception to this is my torches. They seem to like more flow.

I also target feed reef roids to all coral once a week and broadcast feed reef chili once per week

 

[Reefer Deez]

I've recently have had alot of pylop extension using red seas reef nutrition A and B. I couldn't believe how fast it worked ;)

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I've recently have had alot of pylop extension using red seas reef nutrition A and B. I couldn't believe how fast it worked ;)

That's good to know. I have the a,b,c,d but haven't used it yet. Still trying to gauge daily CA consumption

 

[hockeyhead019]

Thanks for all the great replies everybody! Sounds like feeding and lower flow sounds like it's the consensus. I'll grab some small bottles of what you guys listed above and give it a shot :)

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Thanks for all the great replies everybody! Sounds like feeding and lower flow sounds like it's the consensus. I'll grab some small bottles of what you guys listed above and give it a shot :)

I didn't realize BRS has a calculator for the red sea trace colors. I was overthinking and tying to get an exact daily consumption of CAL. With my tank being younger it still varies a bit. It just dawned on me I should just dose the calculation of trace colors compared to my dosage of CA

 

[DSC reef]

Just go slow with dosing. It's easy to overdose things you don't test for;)

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Just go slow with dosing. It's easy to overdose things you don't test for;)

No doubt. Especially iodine right?

Ran the BRS calculator and dosed just under