How the heck do you feed a Dendrophillia?

[Darrin]

I have a single polyp frag from a lfs, and have tried several ways...

I put it in a bowl and gave it zooplanktos-l from brightwell aquatics and i threw in some cyclopsez... didnt seem to want it...

i've tried bits of squid placed in the mouth... didnt seem to want it..

ive tried to feed it when it's in a bowl, ive tried to feed it sitting on the frag rack,,..

neither method seems happy... and it dosent seem to be as excited as my duncans do when i put food in their mouths...

ideas?


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[Walking_Target]

If it is a dendro, try enriched brine or mysis on the tentacles. I can put food right on my sun coral's mouths, but it won't respond unless the food hits the tentacles.

Also, how long have you had it? how long was it at the LFS? sometimes they don't travel well and take awhile to start feeding.

 

[stunreefer]

I feed mine with a Kent SeaSquire or by hand.

Every polyp of every colony receives either Rod's food (predator blend chopped up) or P.E. Mysis daily.

 

[slcw]

i use tweezers to feed every possible mouth.

mysis shrimp and market prawn

 

[eggiel]

you call it
Here dendro come and get it (joke)

 

[bsclarinet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15515843#post15515843 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eggiel
you call it
Here dendro come and get it (joke)

Ha! :lol:

 

[GoingPostal]

Turkey baster and mysis usually, sometimes chopped krill/silversides/squid as well. Mine will even eat pellets if I'm feeling lazy.

 

[uhuru]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15515836#post15515836 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by slcw
i use tweezers to feed every possible mouth.

mysis shrimp and market prawn

I only have one head so far but I use super long tweezers as well and feed it piece by piece. I do the same for my duncan heads and acan heads.

I thought my dendro was a goner last weekend after the heat wave we had... the tissue was peeling away and polyp extension was very poor. But, it was still eating and after a few days of feeding various seafood it has regained all of its tissue and then some. I can't believe how fast the tissue had regrown over the skeleton.

 

[stunreefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15527919#post15527919 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by uhuru
I thought my dendro was a goner last weekend after the heat wave we had... the tissue was peeling away and polyp extension was very poor.

I can add that ALL non-photosynthetic corals do MUCH better in cooler temps... I need to find a decent chiller for my Mini here shortly!

 

[uhuru]

With your ultra expensive and rare inhabitants I might be looking for a chiller as well. I'm hoping the big industrial fan I just got will be enough to get me by for the relatively short period of time we have to worry about high temps around here. House stays at 70 or below for most of the year!

 

[uhuru]

BTW I want to show this picture because you can see what appears to be mostly dead skeleton next to the dendro head. I bought it like that (head was crushed when fragged). Well today I see not only tissue growing over the skeleton but a few polyps! I can't believe it!

 

[180+55reef]

I feed mine krill

 

[stagcrazier]

i feed mine krill and mysis