Feeding of Dendronepthya

[Terryz_]

Hi, Just wanna gather feedbacks on the feeding of Dendronepthya... I am currently feeding with FM Ultra Seafan and Ultra Min F... Just to see if there are other alternative feeding with success...
I am feeding my Scleronephthya with cyclopeeze and they can capture them with their tentacles.. Will the Dendronepthya be able to eat such a big food too?

 

[alexruegamer]

i use ultrapac and ultra clam... i think dendros need much smaller food than yours

 

[uhuru]

In my opinion, if you can see the food in the water, its too big.

Sure, they may capture a larger particle here and there but not enough to survive off of.

Lets say they normally capture plankton that is less than 1 micron in the wild. Take a ruler and measure 1 millimeter. Now take 1/1000 of that and you have 1 micron. You would have a hard time seeing the food even with a microscope at 10x.

Maybe scleros can capture larger foods but my opinion the vast majority of their diet is also microscopic. I feed cyclopeeze a lot too, but I do it more for the feeding response and the other tank inhabitants than to actually feed the dendronephthya and scleronephthya.

If you look at the back of Ultra Clam it has microalgae and nanoplankton.

 

[Terryz_]

So anything that is plankton size is acceptable? I do feed nannochloropsis but not a lot and not very often as I am very afraid of algae bloom...
Ultra Seafan and Ultra Min F too contain both Microalgae and Planktons, so they are suitable food I guess.. I do two pump of the food into my dosing unit, becos 1 pump can only last half day... Is there any length of success to consider a success?