Tips to maintain dendro- and scleronephtya ?

[ManuVarras]

Hi everybody

First of all, let me apologize for my scholar English but I' m french and I live in Provence, between Marseille and Nice (nice place, isn't it ? )

I'm wondering if you (on your side of the Ocean) succeed in maintaining dendronephtya, scleronephtya and others soft corals this family ...

I intend to build a Red Sea Tank and these species seem to be ecotypic (ecotypical ? sorry) for this destination but have bad reputation (considered in Europe as impossible to keep) ...

Any information, any experience or success report except http://www.marineaquarium.nl/februari-2006english.php ?

Best regards

Emmanuel (http://monboutderecif.over-blog.com)

 

[Cody Ray]

As far as I know only a few people have had sucess keeping them. In my opinion it is better to just avoid them and go with a photosynthetic tree coral.

 

[Poisson Voyageur]

Desolee mais pas de succes ici non plus, j'ai fait mes propres recherches et c'est un echec dans tous les cas. Dommage, ils sont tellement colores. Il faut encore attendre quelques annees...

 

[pink_floyd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8640895#post8640895 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Poisson Voyageur
Desolee mais pas de succes ici non plus, j'ai fait mes propres recherches et c'est un echec dans tous les cas. Dommage, ils sont tellement colores. Il faut encore attendre quelques annees...

That sounded sweet until i saw the sad face...

 

[Shoreliner11]

It has been said that Scleros are easier in comparison to dendros, but both are still very hard to keep. I've heard of people planning tanks for such organisms but never seen one actually up and running. One plan I remember was to have a large 40-50 gallon refugium (compared to a relatively small display, 10-15gallons) which would gravity feed into the display, and have the invert larvae from the refugium feed the corals. I'm not sure myself if this would be feasible or not. IMO I would jsut stay away from them as well. Kinda sucks that you won't have your red sea biotope tank exactly as it is in the wild, but better that than more dendros and scleros dying for aquarists "TRYING" to keep them. Just my 2 cents.
Aaron