Dendronephthya study group v.2
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I am still searching for the best feeding System for dendros.
I am definetly sure that the succes is not in coral food, i tryied all feeding system, battling with overfeed etc. but never succes. every coral food is useless.
I think the key is in a plankton filled aquarium, and the aquarium can produce the plankton the only need is to feed the planktons with some phyto food.
so...i am on the thing
and i didnt give up, but... the generall methods not working....
I am definetly sure that the succes is not in coral food, i tryied all feeding system, battling with overfeed etc. but never succes. every coral food is useless.
I think the key is in a plankton filled aquarium, and the aquarium can produce the plankton the only need is to feed the planktons with some phyto food.
so...i am on the thing
and i didnt give up, but... the generall methods not working....
slapshot
Active member
I don't know about plankton in general. At its base plankton and coral food are not that different. Maybe a certain plankton? Back in the day some of us were having success with over or heavy feeding of various phytoplankton and coral mucus. My personal success was keeping a baby Dendronepthya (that dropped off of a dendronephya I had for months) alive for 14 months. See above. Sadly I was killing aptasia (a biproduct of heavy feeding) with a Kalk solution and some of it got on it. It quickly died. There was also a gentleman in Ohio who had amazing success, can't remember if he was part of this thread but I'm sure it's mentioned way way back. He basically kept a green water aquarium. The death of all of us old timer's attempts long term was pollution and the inability to sustain the enormous amount of time it took.:headwally: Best of luck, I am still confident someone will break through just as we did with SPS.
Spartan
Member
In case anyone's still trying:
Five species of microalgae were successfully isolated and identified from the digestive tract of
Dendronephtya sp., namely Amphora sp., Nannochloris sp., Meyerella planktonica, Nitzschia inconspicua,
and Navicula salinicola. Two species that were morphogically identified as Chlorella sp. and Navicula sp.1
were later corrected respectively as Meyerella planktonica, and Nitzschia inconspicua using the molecular
method.
Isolation, Identification and Growth Optimization of Microalgae Derived from Soft Coral Dendronephthya sp. ☆
Rory Anthony Hutagalunga, , ,
Anton Ega Sukocoa,
Dedi Soedharmab,
Lily Maria Goretic,
Ivan Andreana, b, c,
Bamma Elshaddaia,
Noryawati Mulyonoa
Five species of microalgae were successfully isolated and identified from the digestive tract of
Dendronephtya sp., namely Amphora sp., Nannochloris sp., Meyerella planktonica, Nitzschia inconspicua,
and Navicula salinicola. Two species that were morphogically identified as Chlorella sp. and Navicula sp.1
were later corrected respectively as Meyerella planktonica, and Nitzschia inconspicua using the molecular
method.
Isolation, Identification and Growth Optimization of Microalgae Derived from Soft Coral Dendronephthya sp. ☆
Rory Anthony Hutagalunga, , ,
Anton Ega Sukocoa,
Dedi Soedharmab,
Lily Maria Goretic,
Ivan Andreana, b, c,
Bamma Elshaddaia,
Noryawati Mulyonoa
good info
I am joining this discussion because I now have a Dendro since May 19th, 2016. It inflates and deflates a few times daily. It's in our office, so I don't know what it is doing at night. I am feeding it SDaquarist and Oyster-Feast. SDaquarist contains the following: Pavlova, Isochrysis, Thalassiosira weissflogii, Thalassiosira pseudonana, Tetraselmis and Chaetocerous calcitrans. Notice that 3 of the species of phytoplankton are diatoms. I have spoken with a number of people about this and it appears phytoplankton is critical to their survival and diatoms are even more critical in the diet. I will post a picture soon. I am documenting its growth and longevity with pictures. I am feeding 2mls of SDaquarist and 2mls of Oyster-Feast daily to my 30 gallon tank, which is dominated by soft corals and NPS bivalves. I also have 2 clowns, 1 royal gramma, 1 mandarin dragonet, and 1 lawnmower blenny.
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Whiterabbitrage
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Bump.
C Dragon, is your Dendro still alive?
C Dragon, is your Dendro still alive?
Any updates?
I've started a an experiment at work(small public aquarium), in a frag tank connected to a large reef tank. So far I've only been able to get Scleronephtya sp, but hopefully I'll find a couple of Dendronephtya colonies as well. The five colonies of Scleronephtya arrived 4 days ago so I don't have that much results yet.
The feeding regime is:
EasyBooster (4 types of phytoplankton, concentrated)
Live nannochloropsis / Isochryssis
Live Synechococcus sp
So as a start I want to test phytoplankton and smaller food.
The dosing is with dosing pumps to try to have constant concentration of food in the water over the day.
I'll try to make an update soon.
Best regards
David
I've started a an experiment at work(small public aquarium), in a frag tank connected to a large reef tank. So far I've only been able to get Scleronephtya sp, but hopefully I'll find a couple of Dendronephtya colonies as well. The five colonies of Scleronephtya arrived 4 days ago so I don't have that much results yet.
The feeding regime is:
EasyBooster (4 types of phytoplankton, concentrated)
Live nannochloropsis / Isochryssis
Live Synechococcus sp
So as a start I want to test phytoplankton and smaller food.
The dosing is with dosing pumps to try to have constant concentration of food in the water over the day.
I'll try to make an update soon.
Best regards
David
