Dendronepthya
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I stopped keeping them in the early 2000 because of their nutritional requirements. You really need a system devoted to NPS.
Stunning coral, I wish they were easier to keep.
A couple hobbyist have hooked up a refrigerated dosing system to provide that fine particulate matter.
Good luck
Stunning coral, I wish they were easier to keep.
A couple hobbyist have hooked up a refrigerated dosing system to provide that fine particulate matter.
Good luck
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Yeah, success rates aren’t that great from what I have heard. It’s my first time keeping an nps if you don’t count a tubastreae sun coral. Want to check the box, but not expecting too much of itI stopped keeping them in the early 2000 because of their nutritional requirements. You really need a system devoted to NPS.
Stunning coral, I wish they were easier to keep.
A couple hobbyist have hooked up a refrigerated dosing system to provide that fine particulate matter.
Good luck
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Nobody that I am aware of has kept that species for more than 1.5-2 years or so, despite many trying with tanks built from the ground up to house them (low light, strong, alternating, laminar flow, appropriate food density, etc).
I have three that are being kept in a tank that is part of a large NPS system which I aquired about 21 months ago. They've slowly shrunk to less than 1/4 of their initial size during that time despite a lot of effort put into it.
They are fed a mixture of foods including Thalassiosira, Nannochloropsis, Isochrysis, Rhodomonas, live s-type rotifers, Reef Nutrition concentrated foods, and more on an autofeeder approximately 16 hours per day to maintain a cell density of ~5000 cells per ^cm3. This means the water is slightly cloudy during this entire timeframe. Temp is 72F and light is very low (I'd guess maybe 30PAR at best). Flow is ~15cm/s.
They're also in a tank with an enormous biomass of various sponges which I assume are shunting a lot of beneficial microbial carbon back into the water as a food source. I'm not sure where else to go from there, but would love to hear from anybody who has had more success with this species!
I have three that are being kept in a tank that is part of a large NPS system which I aquired about 21 months ago. They've slowly shrunk to less than 1/4 of their initial size during that time despite a lot of effort put into it.
They are fed a mixture of foods including Thalassiosira, Nannochloropsis, Isochrysis, Rhodomonas, live s-type rotifers, Reef Nutrition concentrated foods, and more on an autofeeder approximately 16 hours per day to maintain a cell density of ~5000 cells per ^cm3. This means the water is slightly cloudy during this entire timeframe. Temp is 72F and light is very low (I'd guess maybe 30PAR at best). Flow is ~15cm/s.
They're also in a tank with an enormous biomass of various sponges which I assume are shunting a lot of beneficial microbial carbon back into the water as a food source. I'm not sure where else to go from there, but would love to hear from anybody who has had more success with this species!
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