Advice caring for Carnation Tree Corals

[alanbates12]

I'm considering putting in a couple of carnation tree corals in my 180 gallon tank. It's 8 months old and seems to be thriving well. I posted another thread about wanting a couple of carnation corals and someone suggested to get some advice here first. This is why I love RC. So my question is what do I need to do to get prepared to care for carnation corals. My tank as I said is 180 gallons with T 5 HO's, About 180/200 lbs LR, and 100 lb of LS. I've got lots of flow with 4 power heads, Plenty of areas with shade. I have 11 fish that I feed a frozen food mixture thats made up of lots of stuff I see that you guys are feeding your NPS corals. I feed twice a day. Also once a week I target feed. And once a week I just dump a little something in the tank. My parameters are Ph 8.2, Temp 80, nitrates, ammonia and nitrites 0, P04 0.03, Ca 490, Alk 3.65, Mg 1400, Salinity 1.026.:idea:

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[uhuru]

Welcome... and kudos to you for asking here first.

Unfortunately, you will not succeed with dendronephthya with your setup. You really need a system that is specifically designed around their care. Check out the "Dendronephthya study group version 2" thread in this forum for more information. Also, check out my build thread.