dendophiliia
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Couple of ways:
1) Turn off all flow and w/ a turkey baster squirt some mysis, blood worms, cyclopeeze etc onto the heads.
2) You can feed them larger pieces of chopped shrimp , squid, silversides, etc by placing the food w/ tweezers on the tentacles. Either way has been effective for me. I have used this method w/ suncorals, balanophylia, and rhyzo. If you have fish in the tank, they might want to steel the food so you might have to distract them or do what others have done by placing a small strawberry basket over the corl so the fish can't get at the food. Good Luck. For best growth feed them 2-3 times a week.
1) Turn off all flow and w/ a turkey baster squirt some mysis, blood worms, cyclopeeze etc onto the heads.
2) You can feed them larger pieces of chopped shrimp , squid, silversides, etc by placing the food w/ tweezers on the tentacles. Either way has been effective for me. I have used this method w/ suncorals, balanophylia, and rhyzo. If you have fish in the tank, they might want to steel the food so you might have to distract them or do what others have done by placing a small strawberry basket over the corl so the fish can't get at the food. Good Luck. For best growth feed them 2-3 times a week.
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Absolutely yes you can.
When you take it out I recommend transfering it into a small tupperware so it never makes contact with the air. Place small amount of food in the tupperware and wait for the dendro to open. once it does... feed it! A lot! Let the polyps fully consume the food and let it sit for about 15-20 mins. After that gently return it to the tank the same means you removed it.
Peronally I only do this with damaged Tubastrea colonies that absolutely will not open their polyps at first in the display tank. This coaxes them out as you can douse them with tons of food and not polute your tank. After a while they begin to open on their own in the display and you can feed them there.
As pan_natan stated though, any time you move any coral around it will stress them, so I only recommend feeding it like this initially. Plus over time it will encrust onto a rock (if you let it) and continue to grow.
I always feed my fish heavily, then my NPS coral after that. Generally the fish leave them alone, if not I'll put a lil more food in for the fish. If worse comes to worse and the fish is being a PITA I chase it around with my Kent SeaSquirrt (which is what I use to feed my NPS coral).
stunreefer
Reef Hugger
If the polyps are out you can spot feed them with the flow on - I do everyday. I rarely shut my flow off for feeding, really only when I want to look top-down.
Be carefull with that sump Darrin, you don't want to come into a flood because of a power-outtage! I'm sure you know that though
BTW, is this dendro in your gorgeous SPS display?
Be carefull with that sump Darrin, you don't want to come into a flood because of a power-outtage! I'm sure you know that though
BTW, is this dendro in your gorgeous SPS display?
i just bought a single polyp for $15 at t lfs... thought i would give it a shot... It's in my 300,,'
I wold love to try dendronepthias, i even had some last a while, long time ago, but I'm just getting back into tanks.... My system crashed 2.5 years ago when a tornado took out my office.
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I wold love to try dendronepthias, i even had some last a while, long time ago, but I'm just getting back into tanks.... My system crashed 2.5 years ago when a tornado took out my office.
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