For those with Dendros

[paininthewrasse]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10081351#post10081351 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cristhiam
Mine is on the rocks I wish mine will open during the day.

at night (older picture)

get more flow over it and it will probably open up during the day.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

Here is a night shot, not all are mine, just holding for friends. The biggest one is mine and opens up to almost 4 inches.

What has been the typical growth on these guys?

 

[Mikigo]

Do you guys/gals feed silverside to your dendros? I feed mine everyday, but no new babies. They only get huge.

 

[graveyardworm]

I just put my lights on to grab some pics of my suncorals and discovered that my latest Yellow Watchman Goby eggs hatched. The water is literally teaming with thousands of little fry, and my corals are having quite a time feasting. Here's a new pic of my Dendro, almost 2 months since the previous one I posted.

 

[Qckwzrd]

pic of when it use to be on the top

 

[Qckwzrd]

I mean bottom...sowwy

 

[mikekman]

I personally like the look of dendros on the sandbed, has a nice look to it.

 

[surfsharkus]

I have been feeding mine every day for 2 weeks and they still haven't oppened supper full like the ones earlyer on this post. They have opened more since I took this shot of my 6 gallon nano reef that has been up for about 2 months post cycle. I have also moved my dendros to the sand bed below the torch recently.

great pics everyone!

P.S. CAN YOU OVER FEED THEM?

 

[mikekman]

Yes you can overfeed them. If you notice that later in the day there is some food floating around that is a sign that the dendro might have threw up/spit out the food.

Also you can sometimes catch them in the act. There has been a few times I saw my dendros spit out some food because I gave them too much. Give each large head a few pieces of mysis and the small ones like 1 mysis will do since you are feeding everday. Don't give each head like 20 pieces of mysis.

 

[surfsharkus]

OOPPPSsss.... I give a whole cube of mysis to the lot of 'em. There are 5 larger polyps and about 7 baby ones(which i dont feed unless some food accidently falls on them)

 

[mikekman]

Lets see, 2 cubes of mysis soaked with selcon will last me two feedings for all my dendro (5 large ones, 5+ medium/small ones), 2 sun coral heads, 5 black sun coral heads, 1 waratah anemone, 4-5 heads of micro balanos, and 4 heads of some branching tubastrea.

I've got a good amount of non photosynthetics in my 14 nano and 2 cubes of mysis can last me two feedings. You might be giving yours too much....if you feed them at night, look at the tank and see if there is any food floating around or any food on the sandbed. The presence of food will let you know that they are spitting some of it out.

If I were you, I'd be very careful about nitrates since you are feeding everyday! Do frequent frequent small water changes and set up a hang on back refugium.

Mike

 

[Qckwzrd]

I feed my three dendros suncorals (about 20 heads) plate coral and torch about 2-3 cubes per feeding. I don't get any left over food. I do 30% water changes every week. I feed mysis I also feed squid and chopped shrimp once a week.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

you guys feed a lot, you get many new babies appearing? Whenever I feed my tank(3x week) I use one mysis cube, and have had the dendros for about two months with no babies I can see, but tons of growth and extension on my polyps. What is the max size for dendros, my largest head is about 2.5 inches across.

 

[surfsharkus]

I have about 8 new heads poping and I have only had them 2.5 weeks. I herd that rods food is good where do I get some? What is selcon?

 

[mikekman]

Search rods food on google. Selcon is a food booster that contains HUFAs (highly unsaturated omega 3 fatty acids). If you soak any frozen food in this, it adds more nutritional value.

surfsharkus, 8 babies........I thought from the early pics when you got it, it looked liked there were babies already showing.

I have a dendro that still hasn't had any babies appear but others have babies........just all depends I guess. I'd say 1-2 babies a month or so is pretty good.

 

[02REDZ28]

How do you all feed your dendros? Do you turn off your circ pums or place them in another container?

 

[mikekman]

Well, you can turn off the pump and then target feed them. Dendros have fairly long tentacles and the tentacles are pretty sticky. Even with the pumps on, if you get a turkey baster and blast some mysis right on them, they can hold onto the food and stuff it into their hungry mouths.

Now for smaller foods like cyclopeez, I would suggest turning the pump off because cyclopeez will easily get blown away.

There is no need to feed them outside of the tank unless you have fish or other critters bugging them. Even then, shoo the thing annoying the dendro and give it like a minute to eat. Dendros eat really fast.....I mean the moment food hits them, they start shoving it into their mouths and suck it down quick. Pretty fun to watch.

 

[anguswu]

Here is a picture of my tank. You can find the dendro and rhizo at bottom left.

 

[Echidna09]

Wow beautiful tank. I don't think I've ever seem one that colorful and it looks good without SPS (even though I'm a fan of it). Your coco worm looks a little crowded.

 

[surfsharkus]

wow all those colors. Awesome!