the budman
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is this a non photosynthetic coral?
purple lamnelia
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Jens Kallmeyer
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No quite. The purple lemnalia does have some zooxanthellae, but it reacts very positively on additional feeding. As I add enough food to my tank anyways I can't tell you wether it would survive in the long run without any feeding
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IMHE. it needs reasonably strong light (not the lowest light coral), mine didn't grow under 18W 50-50PC, but grows well right under 55W PC, 10,000K).
Feeding by mouth-sized food (smaller, then cyclop-eeze) is necessary (again, IMHE: frags didn't survive in neither basic mixed reef, even in good light, sunlight + PC, or in red finger gorgonian tank, fed by cyclop-eeze and someZoPlan, good enough for gorgonian.
Grew slowly in another tank, fed for sun coral and gorgonians (same 55W PC), started to grow faster, when feeding and more flow for scleronephthya and dendronephthya was provided (same 55W PC).
Maybe small-sized food, every ~2 hrs, good flow and light, of course, were necessary?
But: 18W and 55W could be different species: Lemnalia, Neospongodes, Paralemnalia looks quite similar.
18W + gorgonian feeding, same in basic mixed reef + daylight was:
55W + dendronepthya feedings is:
Take a look at this thread, this, this, this this and I can't find thread Lenmania or neospongodes?. GARF has some pages on them. Reeflex has ID page.
Feeding by mouth-sized food (smaller, then cyclop-eeze) is necessary (again, IMHE: frags didn't survive in neither basic mixed reef, even in good light, sunlight + PC, or in red finger gorgonian tank, fed by cyclop-eeze and someZoPlan, good enough for gorgonian.
Grew slowly in another tank, fed for sun coral and gorgonians (same 55W PC), started to grow faster, when feeding and more flow for scleronephthya and dendronephthya was provided (same 55W PC).
Maybe small-sized food, every ~2 hrs, good flow and light, of course, were necessary?
But: 18W and 55W could be different species: Lemnalia, Neospongodes, Paralemnalia looks quite similar.
18W + gorgonian feeding, same in basic mixed reef + daylight was:
55W + dendronepthya feedings is:
Take a look at this thread, this, this, this this and I can't find thread Lenmania or neospongodes?. GARF has some pages on them. Reeflex has ID page.
Jens Kallmeyer
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HI Dendro
My tank has 8 * 24W T5 lighting, which is definitely stronger than your 55W PC.
Here is a picture of the coral, sorry for the crappy quality, haven't cleaned the glasss properly
When I received the coral, it was partially ripped off from its base rock and eventually came loose completely. So I took a new piece of rock, drilled 6 holes through it and held the coral down with 3 cable ties. This worked well but before I could react the cable ties were grown into the coral, now I can't remove then without risking to harm the coral.
Regarding the exact determination of the coral, this one has very few sclerites, therfore I think that it is a lemnalia. It may well be a Neospongodes, my main interest is to keep it alive and perhaps grow it. The name is of secondary importance to me.
Jens
My tank has 8 * 24W T5 lighting, which is definitely stronger than your 55W PC.
Here is a picture of the coral, sorry for the crappy quality, haven't cleaned the glasss properly
When I received the coral, it was partially ripped off from its base rock and eventually came loose completely. So I took a new piece of rock, drilled 6 holes through it and held the coral down with 3 cable ties. This worked well but before I could react the cable ties were grown into the coral, now I can't remove then without risking to harm the coral.
Regarding the exact determination of the coral, this one has very few sclerites, therfore I think that it is a lemnalia. It may well be a Neospongodes, my main interest is to keep it alive and perhaps grow it. The name is of secondary importance to me.
Jens
the budman
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i have one that is doing great in my tank. started a small 2-3 inch frag. i have now given 2 similar frags away and have a multiple trunk 6 -8 inch coral. it receives 260 watts of total light from compact flourescents in a 40 long. half dual actinic and half dual daylight. it gets ALOT of current in the spot it is at. When i bought it i was told lots of current and less light,current is more important. i give different types of coral foods every day. i posted because some one asked me and i didnt know. thanks for all the info.
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