• question about tubastria

  • Kenneth7331

What is the flow like? I think it will open in a couple of days, I'm not used to it yet.

Catherine

To accelerate, you need to create approximately: - a completely dark area under the balcony, but there MUST BE ACCESS for feeding. - blow microplankton or cyclops directly into the polyp's hole (not fully opened) - or wait for night and blow into partially opened polyps. Do this daily until the polyps reliably open in the evening.

Sarah

Yes, and it reacts very positively to the reflected flow (of course, when it is already "revved up").

William1830

I'M TELLING YOU! Take a bottle that fits the size of the colony, cut it, again, to size, from the neck side. Cover the colony with the bottle after turning off the light and blow some artemia or frozen cyclops into the neck with a syringe. Wait for 10-15 minutes. If it opens, blow in another portion; if not, remove the bottle. After a week of such "training," even the most capricious tubastreas will open up. Then it's enough to just spray some treats (without the bottle) for them to open up. Patience, gentlemen, patience!

Heather6148

Maybe he still has it from the road...

Rebecca1419

I measured the nitrates, and it turned out to be 10, so I did a 60-liter water change.

Stacey4437

I'll jump in a bit: can you tell me if it's possible to feed a tubastrea every 4 days, is it better not to keep it? I have a really great spot for it (a rock, roughly speaking, in the shade + current), but I can regularly feed it every 3-4 days on average... (that's what I can definitely do regularly, of course, I will feed it more often too, but I also anticipate those 4-day breaks...)

Monica

It's fine, as long as the system parameters don't get disrupted. It's better to be overly cautious than to underdo it.

Melissa2062

Nadia, I haven't been feeding my own for over a month, they feel good, but they only open up in the evening. The main thing is to fatten them up after acquiring them, at least for a week... every day, I fattened them up as described, through a bottle. So feel free to buy!

Karen

The thing is, for a couple of months now, nitrites/nitrates/phosphates have been at zero, and I changed the foam filter, so I think the system will hold up... It will definitely take a week or two to fatten them up, your experience is encouraging, I will take them. I'm curious, do they only come in yellow?

Joseph591

I have yellow and orange. There are also black ones, but among the common ones, I saw green on some website, but I haven't actually seen it in any aquarium in the photos.

Raven7170

There are still some red ones.

Jeffrey2277

almost off... it would be great to find such for sale)

Kevin

The first link is a black tubastrean, and the second one does not open.

Laura9093

I understood why the tubastreya wasn't opening, I moved it to another place, a bit into the shade and under a strong current, and it started to slowly open up...

Phyllis

Help feed the tubastreya

Julie3950

Wow, what a colony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!

Stephen5841

Good day and thank you for the topic!!! I am interested to know if there are Tubastrea species other than yellow? Thank you!!!

Susan1358

The information from aquarists keeping tubastrea is very interesting.

James

What exactly are you interested in? I have an orange and a black one - I think they are the simplest and most resilient non-photosynthetic organisms. The main thing is to feed them well at the beginning - after that, you just have to keep up with giving them food.)))

Eric8832

It's interesting to replenish my aquarium with these "gobblers."