How a pagoda should look...

[sihaya]

I don't usually brag about my personal corals/tanks (mostly because there's rarely anything to brag much about-lol), but I just have to show this off:

 

[reefboy23]

Those look like zoanthids to me....whatever it is its thriving..........NICE

 

[Mrktplayer]

they sure are thriving, looks great

 

[joshinjosh]

looks like a very healthy coral

 

[Scooterman]

My pagoda never reached out that much but It did, looks like it is hungry!

 

[sihaya]

Thanks guys! Scooter: when it was dying, I actually fed it by hand. Now it's almost like a trained seal. lol

reefboy - I can kinda see how the polyps might look like zoanthids, but it's actually a Turbinaria sp. (commonly, "pagoda cup coral").

 

[bc_slc]

Looks great. I have one as well that is a little bit bigger. They do pretty well if you feed them (actively or passively) from time to time.

Mat

 

[Planet Reef]

Pagoda Cups are often starved on accident by their keepers. I'll let Sara tell you what she did to rehabilitate this particular animal but the idea to keep in mind is that (as a general rule);

• The larger the "mouth" that the coral has, the more particulate and zooplankton it needs in addition to Dissolved Organics and photosynthesis. And,
  
• The more tissue a coral has, as the more particulate and zooplankton it needs too.

 

[sihaya]

Yep. At first I fed the coral by hand (literallY) because it was in such bad shape I didn't think it would be able to "catch" anything. Now it does fine all by itself (catching food "junk" from the overflow).