Corals Eating : Photos

[TrevorScott]

wow! great photos guys!!!

 

[kay-bee]

Trumpet coral eating mysis shrimp (swallowed shimp are annotated with arrows; corals were fed while the lights were out, but I turned them on briefly to take the photo):

 

[Grins]

Updated shot of my pearl bubble (the first coral in the thread). The thing is ravenous a few times a week. As it swallows it's food it will deflate a bit on the sides as you can see here. The tenticles that come out when it is hungry are still visible a bit but the mouth sretches so wide at times it is difficult to see them. It has 2 mouths and if I'm not careful to give them both a small piece of fish the one will actually stretch up a bit and try to steal from the other mouth. :grinyes:

 

[Nick540]

wow great pics, love the suns eating!

 

[kay-bee]

Open brain sensing food is in the water and opens it's maw (feed me!)

In the time it took me to set down the tweezer (which I used to feed it krill) and grab my camera the krill was almost gone:

Back for seconds! (acting a little quicker this time I got this shot before this krill too disappeared):

 

[Grins]

Very cool, mine never accepts food from me. But it poops just fine so it must be feeding off the zoo in it.

 

[kay-bee]

Mine eats a lot (I fed it a bunch of mysis the previous night). Reminds me of that human-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors.

 

[Catpicklesdog]

Photos of my candy cane and sun coral after being fed a mixture of mysis shrimp and krill. I always chuck in a bit of Coral Frenzy first to get them going!!!

 

[cav]

do you guys turn off your power heads before feeding your corals?

 

[Catpicklesdog]

I don't but i do get close with a turkey baster and have plenty of food to hand!