carnation coral

[gindobuck]

so i bought a carnation coral not knowing that its a non photosynthetic. the nice redness caught my attention and the lfs said they are easy (bs for what i have read so far)

well i brought my carnation coral home, acclimated with iodine as well, and it looks good. its opened.

tank:
46 bowfront
6-7 months old
calcium 350 (using bionics to get it up)
ph 8.2
temp 78
alk 10
nitrate 0
t5 6 bulbs.

its all the way in the left corner up at the top.

i know they require feeding of phytoplanton and low lighting and maybe hung upside down

the are where i put it isnt exactly the least lighting but for an open spot its the least lighting. (the corner sections have less par readings)

another lfs gave me phyto feast live which i think is live phytoplancton.
DID I GET THE RIGHT FOOD?
HOW DO I FEED IT?

 

[dendro982]

I'm not an expert, but also trying to keep dendronephthya.
The article about using similar food plus RotiFeast is here. You can find a lot of descriptions by search on dendronephthya feeding and threads on carnation coral at this forum.
Usually high flow and continuous (or almost) feeding are recommended.
In my (very limited) experience small vertical white kind with purple ends of the branches is doing better in turbulent or rotating around coral, than in laminar flow, and massive arboreal almost mono-color (mine is peach-pink) - good enough in laminar flow (but I don't have space for them in rotating around flow to compare).

Nice coral, good luck with it!
If you will ever have problems with it and bristle worms, post again. I'm experimenting with one of mine.

 

[Kreeger1]

That tank is no longer around. He is taking what lived and placing it in a 30 gal to see if he can get some of his results back again.
These corals are just to tempermental IMO

 

[gindobuck]

so this is the update of my carnation coral. ive had him for almost one week.

 

[Kreeger1]

Thats a nice scerlo

 

[gindobuck]

thanks. hey i found an old thread started by you about your scerlo and you dendro. how are they doing? how do you maintain them?
im still new with the scerlo. i just throw in mysis and hope it catches it and also some live plankton

 

[dtaylor123]

Re: carnation coral

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14135982#post14135982 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gindobuck
the lfs said they are easy (bs for what i have read so far)

That local LFS, is not to ever be trusted! I would never shop there again. About 99% of Carnation Corals die after a few months in a reef tank. They need special care and even then is unlikely they will grow. Still no one knows how to keep them. Your LFS was "stuck" with these corals, they probably didn't order them but still came in their shipment. That store has no credibility and should be avoided, better yet advertise their name to your local reefers and tell them what happened. I really dislike fraudulent statements and it doesn't make sense to me. Why lie about a coral, sure you make a sale, but how about repeat customers? Boycott them. I hope your coral makes it, but it will most likely die.

Dan

 

[dendro982]

i found an old thread started by you

By who?

Some links:
This is advice about particular kind of scleronephthya by Danny from Holland link, this worked for both sclero and dendro (mcox33), Jens Kallmeyer's advice was very useful to me, Charles Matthews about difference in requirements between sclero and dendro, Danny Dame's article, C. Stottlemire's article, Stephan P. post.