Dendros Exploded!

[bfam4t6]

I remember an old RC thread in which a guy had a $500 red plate coral that died, but he kept the skeleton and after a few months, dozens of new babies popped up all over the skeleton. I'd read mention of something similar happening to dendros.

Well, I think it happened to mine. These were three healthy heads several months ago. First the top one slowly died, then the middle one slowly melted away. At one point, both looked pretty sickly and rejected all food. Does anybody know if this is normal? Is it healthy? Is it a sign of something wrong with their diet and or water parameters? At any rate, all of the babies seem to be eating and growing just fine. I went from three to well over twenty heads, so I'm not complaining at all. I'm just curious to see if anybody can teach me more about what's going on with these explosive dendros, and thought you LPS guys might enjoy seeing this.

 

[ritter6788]

That guy that had the red plate owns this site.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-aquarium-discussion/32986-baby-red-fungia-plate-corals-new-update-july-1st.html

Looks like yours is making a comeback!

Never give up on a coral! Even if it's tossed into the sump it has a chance to make a comeback.

 

[bfam4t6]

That guy that had the red plate owns this site.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-aquarium-discussion/32986-baby-red-fungia-plate-corals-new-update-july-1st.html

Looks like yours is making a comeback!

Never give up on a coral! Even if it's tossed into the sump it has a chance to make a comeback.

Nice! I had no idea it was the same guy!

 

[Rob&Gab]

my girls dendro head just exploded. how long till you got babies growing on it?? please share time period with us.


Thanks , Rob.

 

[bfam4t6]

I can't remember the exact timeline, and the photos I would normally use for reference were lost when I had to wipe an app due to a persistent glitch. But from what I can remember, I got it sometime around the end of January, sometime February, or at the beginning of March this past year. At that time it was three heads with one tiny baby on the bottom. It stayed that way, with the baby head growing slightly, until about the end of June or beginning of July at which point the uppermost head began to have a gaping mouth and just generally looked aweful. I tried feeding it Fauna Marin, Mysis Shrimp, and a local home brew consisting of several chopped meaty seafoods and some beneficial vitamins. Occasionally a tentacle would latch to the food briefly, only to let go before consuming it. The Fauna Marin would just get caught in a mucus like substance that oozed from around the mouth and generally not get consumed either. The middle head starting going around the beginning or middle of August, at about which time I was already noticing a few babies popping up on the then dead uppermost head. You can see some of the original flesh still stretched accross the mostly barren skeleton of the middle head. It's almost as if the babies are growing out of, and getting nourishment from, the flesh of the one former large head.

What more can you tell us about your girlfriend's?

 

[Rob&Gab]

 

[Rob&Gab]

and its the head all the was to the right that exploded out of no where. i dont no why or what made it happen, water PAr's all good i hope it spouts babies like your this just happened about a week and a half ago.

 

[bfam4t6]

So that uppermost picture is the most recent one? That looks pretty much like mine did. Just keep feeding the other two heads, and hope that a bunch of babies sprout.

I just hope mine keep growing!

 

[Rob&Gab]

thats what she is doing, i hope they sprout babies i we paid good money for them

thats why when you said 2 heads and 1 babie i was like OMG that sounds like hers lol.

maybe they were brothers from the same colony lol. who knows.