Dendro Budding Question

Romulox234

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I have a single head of dendro and lately ive noticed that it has sort of what looks like an air pocket or a blister on its skeleton, is this a sign that it is budding ive been feeding it almost every night along with my sun coral
 
Yes, that is the start of of new head. Keep feeding and before long you will see lots of new heads starting to form. When I target fed mine it grew heads faster than it does now without target feeding.
 
yep, you will have a new head soon and once you get one they seem to just keep popping up I now have 11 new heads and they thing has been spawning and I even think I found a couple of babies from the spawning.
 
Thats so cool ive always wanted this thing to sprout some new head.


Does anybody know how suncorals spawn?

Do they spread over the rock like a mat or release little babies that fly all over the tank?
 
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When my sun coral spawned can't remember it looking like that.The way the polyps are looking is similar,but it never produced mucus like that.
whats your water quality like sometimes they try to spawn if water quality
is declining.If it does spawn turn the pumps off or down and let gametes settle on a rock,then a couple of days later you will have lots of baby polyps!!good luck.
 
I just found this baby coral on one of my rocks. A few weeks ago I was pretty sure I had a spawning event, and now I'm 100% certain. It's probably Tubastrea, but it's really close to my Dendrophyllia and the polyps are open all the time (but I'm guessing baby Tubastrea may just have polyps open more often to catch more smaller food).

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When my sun coral spawned can't remember it looking like that.The way the polyps are looking is similar,but it never produced mucus like that.
whats your water quality like sometimes they try to spawn if water quality
is declining.If it does spawn turn the pumps off or down and let gametes settle on a rock,then a couple of days later you will have lots of baby polyps!!good luck.

A lot of the baby polyps I had ended up being eaten by my gorgs! Well, if they weren't eaten they attached themselves to my gorg polyps. I siphoned one out, worried that it might be some type of nudibranch or parasite, but it looked strikingly like a tiny tiny sun coral. Wish I had a microscope handy... anyway I just ordered an Ogles Mesoscope.
 
The rock that my sun coral came on has tons of little baby polyps all around it, they're clear white and open pretty much all the time, how long does it take for them to fully grow to at least the point where i can spot feed them for quicker growth?
 
not sure, but I've been shooting cyclopleeze and Ultra Min F at mine, it definitely catches some. I found another baby!
 
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