Dendronephthya & Scleronephthya aquaculture

najer · Dec 10, 2019

This morning, ready for breakfast.

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

najer said:
This morning, ready for breakfast.

WOW!!!! gorgeous, keep them coming

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

@Slingshot357, I just started reducing feed from morning light to sunset, positive so far. More when nighttime comes around.

najer · Dec 10, 2019

I was given this on Sunday for letting the shop have the rescue bit back a while ago, it is neon but I can't get pics under blues as my cameras throw a hissy fit with blue leds.

It has more than doubled in size already.

... you'll have to wait for polyp pics!

Slingshot357 · Dec 10, 2019

Dr. Dendrostein said:
@Slingshot357, I just started reducing feed from morning light to sunset, positive so far. More when nighttime comes around.

Sounds like a good idea. I think I mentioned how Dendra seems more open and active at night after lights out and I'm thinking the closing up may be part of the digestion process but have no way to confirm it or not. Maybe feeding and timing how long after feeding she closes up? Back when I was manually feeding her at the same times ever day she also seemed to close up the same time every day. Now with the constant feeding the tank all the time it's random when she will close. Just a thought.

But then again I don't have much info to go on. And what's the old saying? Correlation isn't causation?

I'm still working on finding a balance between enough of the right food in the tank to keep her happy without crashing the entire tank. Its not a species specific tank and I'm working on adding a lot more corals, so I'll need to balance the nutrient levels so everyone is happy. It's mostly phosphates I need to worry about. The new supply of GFO came in just in time. Phosphates hit almost 0.3 last night.

Slingshot357 · Dec 10, 2019

I tested phosphate and it’s going back down. .23 this morning.

Also this is the most inflated I’ve seen her. I’d almost swear she’s grown a bit.

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

Slingshot357 said:
I tested phosphate and it’s going back down. .23 this morning.

Also this is the most inflated I’ve seen her. I’d almost swear she’s grown a bit.

If she's grown, more like grown sideways. ...... she's got some hips......haha
I can't see the love handles......Hahaha

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

Well, importer of Australian corals said, come get my carnations. Then hour later no corals came in. Going to be a long wait. Bummer

Slingshot357 · Dec 10, 2019

Dr. Dendrostein said:
If she's grown, more like grown sideways. ...... she's got some hips......haha
I can't see the love handles......Hahaha

That’s the way I like them. Plump and happy. Lol

Edit: Just noticed she’s almost grown off the frag rock.

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

Forgot to mention, I ordered 12 pink or red scleronephthya from Vietnam. Don't know if they can get. Waiting game from different source

Slingshot357 · Dec 10, 2019

Dr. Dendrostein said:
Well, importer of Australian corals said, come get my carnations. Then hour later no corals came in. Going to be a long wait. Bummer

What's the word on the corals?

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

Slingshot357 said:
What's the word on the corals?

What happens now, they get reordered until they come in. What I don't like is the reason for them not being shipped was it was too hot out there to transport from the ocean to the shipping house. I didn't want to get the importer mad but they do make coolers

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

The Beast looks like it on steroids. Loves to show off

Slingshot357 · Dec 10, 2019

Dr. Dendrostein said:
What happens now, they get reordered until they come in. What I don't like is the reason for them not being shipped was it was too hot out there to transport from the ocean to the shipping house. I didn't want to get the importer mad but they do make coolers

Lame reason. If it's too hot to ship the corals then it's too hot to ship any livestock. I'm sure they are getting their other orders, nicely packed in foam with a couple cooler packs.

Dr. Dendrostein · Dec 10, 2019

Slingshot357 said:
Lame reason. If it's too hot to ship the corals then it's too hot to ship any livestock. I'm sure they are getting their other orders, nicely packed in foam with a couple cooler packs.

importer, from talking to the other customers of his, Importer is pretty grouchy and gets mad quick. I don't want to make him mad and he has a heart attack or something you know. That's what happened to my dad. I didn't get my dad mad, but someone else did and he had a heart attack he lived through it he was okay after.