Dendro care

[Cobystolz]

ive had this dendro for about three months and this is the most it’s ever opened. I’ve tried feeding it and nothing’s happened, it came out a tiny bit but not a lot. I just redid my tank, changed out all the sand and added new rock. It has an overhang with a flat surface under it that I figured would be perfect for the dendro. When I put it there it started opening more than it has ever opened before. Has the problem before been that it was in too much light? It has black dead patches on its side and it hasn’t even opened at night that I’ve seen. I honestly have no idea how it’s still alive. Any tips to help it start thriving? In the full tank picture it’s in the spot that’s circled.

 

[gonzo620]

I believe you just did not purchase a healthy specimen. It’s opening slowly as you nurse it back to health. It appears from the photo all the flesh has receded from the skeleton. I would just keep feeding it daily.

As for too much light I don’t believe it matters these corals are NPS so they really don’t rely on much lights if at all for food. My Dendro sits front and center completely exposed to full light. On another note my other NPS corals sit at the top of the tank blasted with light. A black sun coral and a yellow sun coral.

Here’s a pic of my healthy Dendro’s flesh. There is no skeletons, only tissue.

And here’s a tank shot with locations circled of the NPS.

 

[ARVERLY]

Mine open up 24/7. Turn off flow and feed some reefroids plus LRS

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Bummer on dendro, comrade. Hope it recoup s

 

[erk]

Mine open up 24/7. Turn off flow and feed some reefroids plus LRS

What are those blue tube looking structures? Are they a type of sponge?

 

[Cobystolz]

I believe you just did not purchase a healthy specimen. It’s opening slowly as you nurse it back to health. It appears from the photo all the flesh has receded from the skeleton. I would just keep feeding it daily.

As for too much light I don’t believe it matters these corals are NPS so they really don’t rely on much lights if at all for food. My Dendro sits front and center completely exposed to full light. On another note my other NPS corals sit at the top of the tank blasted with light. A black sun coral and a yellow sun coral.

Here’s a pic of my healthy Dendro’s flesh. There is no skeletons, only tissue.

And here’s a tank shot with locations circled of the NPS.

Thanks for the information. I believe it was healthy. I ordered it from someone that I also ordered like thirty other corals from and all were healthy, one got its flesh blown off when I fed it but I’m not sure why. But the rest were super healthy and all are doing good including the rock flowers I got. I’m gonna glue it where it was last night when it started opening and see if that helps. It got knocked off sometime last night

 

[Cobystolz]

I believe you just did not purchase a healthy specimen. It’s opening slowly as you nurse it back to health. It appears from the photo all the flesh has receded from the skeleton. I would just keep feeding it daily.

As for too much light I don’t believe it matters these corals are NPS so they really don’t rely on much lights if at all for food. My Dendro sits front and center completely exposed to full light. On another note my other NPS corals sit at the top of the tank blasted with light. A black sun coral and a yellow sun coral.

Here’s a pic of my healthy Dendro’s flesh. There is no skeletons, only tissue.

And here’s a tank shot with locations circled of the NPS.

Oh and it was healthy when I got it, the flesh looked just like yours

 

[Cobystolz]

T

Mine open up 24/7. Turn off flow and feed some reefroids plus LRS

That is an amazing tank. I love the ricordeas. How long do they take to get like that?

 

[Cobystolz]

Bummer on dendro, comrade. Hope it recoup s

I’m hopeful, I redid everything and it opened the most it’s ever opened when I put it there a day later so I’ll glue it back down since something knocked it off and I’ll see how it does.

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

Have you checked to see if it opens at night? Mine only opened at night and would look dead during the day. Eventually I “trained” it to open during the day by teasing the polyps out whenever I fed my tank. Eventually the tentacles would come out and grab food. Once I had them do that I made sure I kept the same feeding schedule to get the polyps to come out on a regular basis and during the day. Now I’m finding baby sun corals all over my tank!

 

[Cobystolz]

Ye

Have you checked to see if it opens at night? Mine only opened at night and would look dead during the day. Eventually I “trained” it to open during the day by teasing the polyps out whenever I fed my tank. Eventually the tentacles would come out and grab food. Once I had them do that I made sure I kept the same feeding schedule to get the polyps to come out on a regular basis and during the day. Now I’m finding baby sun corals all over my tank!

Yeah I check everything in the tank almost every night to look for pests or anything new. I was able to get rid of montipora eating nudibranch that way. Or at least I haven’t seen any in over a week checking every night