New Deodronephthya sp. study group?
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mcox33
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I should really read up on the rest of this thread, my house burned 5 years ago and I have not yet replaced it or my tank so I really do not know. I do know however that some of my friends are starting to be able to keep these in their tanks.
slapshot
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I'm not any longer. The best I did was a little over a year. Actually my best one dropped a baby that lived in the sand bed for over a year then I accidentally dropped some Kalk on it killing aptasia and that was all she wrote. I have gone back to the much easier to keep SPS as I don't have the time for NPS at this moment. Good luck, feed a lot and keep your nitrates and PO4 really really low.
mcox33
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as I remember I was having really good results and they spawned a couple of times in my tank. However it has been awhile so I will do my best to describe my feeding formula at the time.
I was crushing megaone flake with a mortor and pestle and then adding a little declorinated water and letting this set in the refridgerator for a day or so then strain off the liquid and add some liquid foods (I honestly can't remember the brands right now-but they were popular for coral feeding at the time.) I added a few drops of a couple of different ones to the liquid from the flake and I would then take a syringe and long tube (they use to come with one of the foods- I do not know if they still do or not- It hurts not having a tank so I do not visit pet shops very often- I just have no place to keep a tank right now.) I would carefully cloud feed directly over the dendros.
Hope this is helpful
I was crushing megaone flake with a mortor and pestle and then adding a little declorinated water and letting this set in the refridgerator for a day or so then strain off the liquid and add some liquid foods (I honestly can't remember the brands right now-but they were popular for coral feeding at the time.) I added a few drops of a couple of different ones to the liquid from the flake and I would then take a syringe and long tube (they use to come with one of the foods- I do not know if they still do or not- It hurts not having a tank so I do not visit pet shops very often- I just have no place to keep a tank right now.) I would carefully cloud feed directly over the dendros.
Hope this is helpful
mcox33
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Actually it was dendroneptha and I guess it was spawning something was sure putting little clouds off around them and then I would find new ones sprouting up throughout the tank.
But the tank is long gone in a house fire and I do not know if anyone else still had any of it left or not. No one else was having any luck keeping them at the time.
But the tank is long gone in a house fire and I do not know if anyone else still had any of it left or not. No one else was having any luck keeping them at the time.
mcox33
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I did not take my tank down my house burned. It started I outside on my back porch. The person who did it got away with it. As soon as my actual location at the time of the fire were made known along with the statement I have no insurance it suddenly became undeterminable accelerant . Accelerant consumned in early stage of fire from unknown sorce. I have not had a stable location to setup abother saltwater tank since. But maybe someday.
dingodan87
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So after reading the article this thread is based on http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-02/feature/ I couldn't help but notice the feeding regime is far simpler than most other nps systems. One main thing was it had nothing out of the fauna marin line yet seemed to have at least equal results as other systems that rely heavily on it (mike cao). Thoughts??
