Id and care dendro.

[toothman]

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I have cared for a fat head dendro for 1 yr now, it went from 3 to 6 heads and is really nice. Allmost always open.

I have this dendro sold as: Australian Dendro, from extreme coral in my reef for 3 weeks. It barely or doesn't open, just a few tentacles out of a couple of heads.

I fear if it doesn't eat soon it will waste away, what to do?

 

[SoLiD]

Anyone know what type of Dendro he has? And NO, It's not a Sun Coral.

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[SoLiD]

As for getting it to open... The next time you do a water change, put it in a 5 gallon bucket of your discarded old tank water. Then drop in a blend of Mysis, Brine, and ground up table shrimp. Stir the chummed water around and it will open up for you. Then use a Turkey Baster to spot feed the heads in the bucket. HTH

 

[CuttleKid]

Ist is a branching dendro (Dendrophyllia gracilis) they are notoriously hard to feed. They are extremely reluctant to open. You will probably have to turn off the pumps and try and place a pellet in each dendrite. They will usually open their mouths enough to consume the pellet. It will take some time to get it to open on it's own. You will just have to keep placing the food in the dendrite and use the Tupperware method as well

Hope this helps

 

[MarineSniper]

I have a branching dendro with about 150 heads. They're slower to open than normal dendros and suns but once they start to feed, they're as easy as any. Just follow the above tips and also squirt a little food on them when you feed your others. I would feed them anytime they open up a little, until they open consistently

 

[Hermannsae]

Looks like mine with the same behavior
I just posted "is there hope?"

 

[toothman]

I am excited there was a small amount of pe around 10pm squirted some cyclops around. I also changed water yesterday, seemed to like it, hasn't opened today yet, anxious to see what it does tonight. I really think dendros are some of the most interesting corals.

 

[MarineSniper]

When I got my branching dendro, it went into a tank that already had about 300 heads of sun corals in it and even with the food going in there to them, it took quite a bit to open up completely. Just keep enticing it and they should be fine. Anytime you see a head out, target feed it some mysid or Fauna Marin lps pellets, or both. The others will catch on quick

 

[sqwat]

youre best bet it to do the tupperware trick wich is every day putting the piece into a large bucket with tank water adding lots and lots of mysis and oysterfeast pollute the water do not bump or move container to scare it use a turky baster or seasquirt to move the food around every 5 mins to 10 minuts do this for 130 hour then remove from bucket and add back to tank.if you do this for two weeks u will have a beautifull open dendo works every time.they might be shy for the first two days but soon the will be open in the bucket feeding.they are starving right now and have shrunk the polyp to a hybrination sizE AND COMPLETLY SHUT DOWN TO SAVE ENERGY.it will take allot of food to bring them back out and you might pollute youre tank if you do it in there.you will notice the polyp will be small and so will the tentacles at first but soon it will be huge and flowing in the current open all day.gl

 

[toothman]

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UPDATE ON DENDRO 4 MONTHS LATER, DOING WELL. THIS THING CAN EAT AND EAT.

 

[Arnoldtatts]

Good job toothman your dt looks amazing. Impressed with the aChilles tang

 

[SoLiD]

Looks Great! They can be tough to keep up with.

 

[SantaMonica]

I really wish some type of automatic feeder were available that could feed them.

 

[toothman]

Did you see the Pictilis anthias very cool too, had him and her for a year. Just got the achilles tang. Feeding it is not that hard I just melt frozen food in a cup and use a turkey baster, about 3x week. I just use the same amount of food I would normally feed the tank but just spot feed the dendro first. I do feed the entire tank 2x day.