Dendronephthya & Scleronephthya aquaculture

[Dr. Dendrostein]

New addition, got this morning

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I've seen new polyps pop up. For now on we'll keep an eye on this carnation coral, dendronephthya sp. From Kenya. Hopefully we'll see a transformation.
Farming at its best. .......Hahaha

Patience and perseverance

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

This morning's picture of new member

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

For this morning I changed food recipe. Instead of Phyto-Feast with reefroids in it. Reefroids is only in the foods being fed. I substituted powder spiralina, chlorella, kelp,and some reefroids. We'll see what happens.

 

[shred5]

For this morning I changed food recipe. Instead of Phyto-Feast with reefroids in it. Reefroids is only in the foods being fed. I substituted powder spiralina, chlorella, kelp,and some reefroids. We'll see what happens.

Yea for me I do not think many corals eat much phyto if any. I am a firm believer that corals are mainly carnivorous. I do think some do eat at least some.
The phyto mainly feeds the critters though that our corals feed on.
I do think phyto is good for our reefs especially NPS aquariums.

I have been following your thread for a while and really like it. I do not post much in it because I do not have any NPS corals even though I have in the past. I am looking at doing one in the future though..
It is good stuff you are doing here and I hope you continue it and are successful.
Very hard coral to keep...

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Thanks for kind words. You just remind me of an email that came to Garf.com on their website. That person mentioned they live by Red Sea, growing carnation corals, dendronephthya sp. They said, only food he feeds them is whole shrimp that's minced. That was all he fed them and he said they would grow like weeds. I would think he was using ocean water from the Red Sea. Thank you, comrade

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Here's a trick of the trade, I discovered yesterday. Many here know I put sponges in my sump and every morning and evening I squeeze them for the bacteria. So yesterday when acclimating new coral, I squeezed one sponge and used that to acclimate coral. When done acclimating and coral went into tank. In 10-20 minutes it was opened.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Tonight's pictures

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Almost open, carnation corals have always open soon, but scleronephthya take time

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Picture of the week

 

[Katrina71]

I can't pick a favorite. They are all unique and beautiful. I personally agree coral are meat eaters too.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

This Friday will be 5 months, anything can change for the worst, hopefully not. Stay tune

Some of these look like a lot like stereonepthea. I can see why people get them mixed up. Have you looked at the polyps under sunlight spectrum lights? I mean super close up, to see if by some chance they have any Zooxanthellae and aren't dendros? Although from

This morning's picture of new member

Okay, now I'm 99% sure that is umbellulifera. Which is pretty cool.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

For those interested here is a scientific paper done by Fabricius, probably one of the leading experts on octocorals, covering Herbivory in asymbiotic soft corals.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

For those interested here is a scientific paper done by Fabricius, probably one of the leading experts on octocorals, covering Herbivory in asymbiotic soft corals.

Thanks, comrade. Funny but last night instagram member sent me 4 paragraph page on this subject. I'm leaning toward meat eaters too. I'm experimenting with different foods. Stay tune.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I can't pick a favorite. They are all unique and beautiful. I personally agree coral are meat eaters too.

I need to make room, really big carnation coral coming. Stay tune
Photo of actual dendronephthya coming

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I don't know guys but the corals seem to like roti-feast with reefroids in it. I'm going to alternate one day Phyto-Feast with reefroids, then Roti-Feast with reefroids another day.

Photo from instagram member Lam

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

Tonight's pictures

Man that pink one on the bottom there looks a lot like stereonepthea.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

I need to make room, really big carnation coral coming. Stay tune
Photo of actual dendronephthya coming

That's lovely. Is it a Nephthyigorgia?

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

Never mind, blew it up. It's wonderful

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

Where do you get your powdered spiralina? And is the chlorella and kelp also powdered?
Thanks