What do you feed your dendro's

[HV1990]

Here is my question:

What do you feed your dendro's and how often. My issues is have a dendro in my 28g jbj nano and in order to feed it I end up using a full cube of food (frozen mysis). Once I get food on top of it the other fish and inverts seem to raid his food so I end up putting more in my tank. I try to feed daily but I don't want a huge ammonia\nitrate spike. I have tried combating this with mb7. Any thoughts or suggestions would be great.

 

[mak3mydae]

I only have one fish that is daring enough to go after the dendro while I'm feeding it, but i often just swing my pipette around to scare it away. If that doesnt work for you, I've heard people feed the fish on the opposite side of the tank and then feed the dendro. I feed my dendro brine shrimp, but one entire cube is enough for my tubastrea, black tubastrea, and my dendro.

 

[donkeys4hire]

I have a few dendro's in my 55g. I spot feed all my LPS Rod's Food with a turkey baster every other day. I broadcast feed the tank a lil first so the fish, shrimp and starfish eat first.

 

[doorlady]

we have the top part of a 2 liter bottle that we put over the coral and then squirt the food in and they get to eat with out anyone stealing the food. As you might can see we weighted down the bottle with a couple of pieces of pvc. We also feed mysis and cyclopeeze.

 

[SAZAMA]

I feed the tank, after most the food is gone. I target feed the dendro PE mysis

 

[Ceridwen85]

I usually feed my fish first, then target feed my dendros. I'll usually use my pipette/turkey baster and fend off fish until the dendros have pulled in enough that the other fish can't pick the food off.

I feed every other day and a combination of foods. Squid, Krill, mysis, brine (baby/adult) rotifers, artic pods, etc. I'll even throw in some NLS pellets and they seem to really like those!

 

[donkeys4hire]

What is that spiral looking gimmick in the second pic?

we have the top part of a 2 liter bottle that we put over the coral and then squirt the food in and they get to eat with out anyone stealing the food. As you might can see we weighted down the bottle with a couple of pieces of pvc. We also feed mysis and cyclopeeze.

 

[doorlady]

What is that spiral looking gimmick in the second pic?

That is one of my spiral wire corals. They are so cool, some people also call them black corals. Here is a current picture