dendro feeding

[sfilipowski]

Hi, I have had a dendo for about a yr one head. Finally looks to be growing another. In the past I feed it cyclopeez with a baster, the problem is it just does'nt seem to get very much it closes eats and reopens. I want to feed it more but only have a 34gal redsea and too much food ends up everywhere leading to algae probs. I recently started giving it a larger piece of shrimp or scallop so it eats it all with no mess. The next day it is fat n happy lookin how often could I should I feed it this way. Can I overfeed it? Now doing this about twice a wk.

 

[mytshall]

dendro

dendro

I feed mine almost everyday. Turn off you waterflow if you're worried about things flying around. I haven't sprouted any new heads but Mine has grown

 

[stunreefer]

You can overfeed them. I feed mine about three to four large Mysis shrimp (PE Mysis) or one piece of Krill every couple/few days.

 

[uhuru]

I recently killed a small colony of mine simply because of faulty use of my baster. I accidently squirted a huge bolus of shrimp into one mouth, by the time I tried to suck some back out the dendro had already started engulfing it. I hoped that it would be able to handle it, but it couldn't. Within a couple of days it started losing tissue, probably due to bacterial infection from rotting food in its gut. The infection then quickly spread to the perfectly healthy dendros that were attached to it.

 

[Sfork]

I picked up some starving dendros from a lfs for cheap. all 5 heads didnt even have any feelers, and were pretty far receded. I would just wait until i saw a mouth opened and shove a mysis in there with a sharp chop stick. I did this daily and 2 weeks later they were all healthy and grew all their feelers back. I had to stop feeding one for a few days because I injured it with the chopstick, but at the end of the 3rd week it was starting to grow it's feelers.

 

[sfilipowski]

wow thanks guys, wow again uhuru I never thought about it like that, undigested food could rot inside them I will be careful it looks some much better lately and after a yr or more it is finally growing another head and with a few weeks has its feelers to.

 

[stunreefer]

seafood + water = not good over time

 

[OzKat]

Can you just feed the heads that open and all the heads get the benefit? Or do you need to feed each head? Not all the polyps open on mine still.

 

[stunreefer]

Continue to feed the heads that are open adn eventually the others should open as well. It's good to try feeding every polyp.

 

[blasto_master]

They way I feed mine is to take the mysis cube with tweezers and gently brush the heads as the frozen mysis breaks up the heads get alot of the shrimp, way more than with a turkey baster. Food for thought.

 

[blasto_master]

here are the results from half a head in just one year

here are the results from half a head in just one year

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[donkeys4hire]

I just got a dendro yesterday at a frag swap. It has 1 and a 1/2 heads.

 

[jtdesotel]

Is there a general rule of thumb in regards to how much and how often to feed? I have read several different opinions, and most of them vary a lot : ). I have two good sized heads of dendro, and right now I feed them about once a week. I'm not necc after super amazing growth, but it would be nice to know the trick to great growth, but not cross the line and over-feeding : )

 

[stunreefer]

The general rule of thumb is to feed each polyp a bit of meaty food every few days. Past that it depends what kind of food you're feeding. There's so many different sizes of Mysis, pellets, etc. You can judge by what I posted earlier (along with other posts above):

I feed mine about three to four large Mysis shrimp (PE Mysis) or one piece of Krill every couple/few days.

Overfeeding generally happens when you get a certain polyp some food, then continue to blast it with food or hit it again when it opens back up.

 

[vresor]

I would worry far more about underfeeding than overfeeding. And let them capture bits on their own rather than try to shove things in their mouths. Nobody like stuff shoved down their throat. Mine went from one polyp to six so far in the first six months. Really cool coral.

 

[Timeless1483]

I find the best thing is to feed everyday, but limit the amount of food. Currently I do a combination of broadcast and spot feeding, all of my NPS corals are thriving, lots of growth and very healthy. I try to spot feed once a week and the rest of the time broadcast, that way they feel and feed more naturally. This is my opinion, but it is better to feed several times a week, then one or two large meals.

 

[SWINGRRRR]

I find the best thing is to feed everyday, but limit the amount of food. Currently I do a combination of broadcast and spot feeding, all of my NPS corals are thriving, lots of growth and very healthy. I try to spot feed once a week and the rest of the time broadcast, that way they feel and feed more naturally. This is my opinion, but it is better to feed several times a week, then one or two large meals.

What are you feeding?

 

[Timeless1483]

I feed cyclopeeze, mysis, brine, phytoplakton, plytofeast, chromaplex, and silversides(for my Rhizo) every once an a while I try to feed him everyday a few large mysis.