Trying to raise Dendronephthya and Scleronephthya part1

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Hole is 1/4 the size. Under 2 days heals quickly

 

[Rispa]

My updates. Will try coral good tomorrow.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Food pretty big, try to do a puree. like baby food. Very little amounts for now. Some polyps will survive

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

You know also can use a straw to feed, I've done it before

 

[Rispa]

I've got coral food. Picked up a spare bag of it from my mom's house where my main tank is. I think I'm going to miz that up and try it in a little bit. When they are healthy can they eat mysis too?

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

They eat all protein. Just puree, try feed right at mouth very little thru day, if possible. Use straw if need to. I can see some tentacles. Do they open more thru day

 

[Rispa]

They eat all protein. Just puree, try feed right at mouth very little thru day, if possible. Use straw if need to. I can see some tentacles. Do they open more thru day

They open a little more, but by no means full. Not sure when they open most.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Keep me posted, polyps opening good sign

 

[Reef Nutrition]

I just made a batch yesterday, I add everything into 3000ml beaker. Shellfish diet,has 6 different (diatoms )algaes apprx 20ml,Nannochloropsis 20ml,fish chum 20ml, paracoccus bacteria 10ml,dry rotifers 10ml,reef roids 10ml, sprint 10ml,smallest eggs brine shrimp 10ml,just got phyto-feast 10ml, top off with Nannochloropsis live culture h2o. Instead of DT h2o.

4am checked corals on carousel 99-100% and happy.

Also I add thru day when I remember 4ml dry utra clam food and mixture paracoccus bacteria 5ml,reef roids 5ml,sprint 5ml, also 4 ml, scoop it, add dry to dt. Sometimes fill this in smallest jar with dt h2o, feed thru day, when I remember.

I put 3000ml beaker on stirrer dose 3ml-5ml apprx, once each hour

That's quite a list of small particulate feeds! Glad to see you are incorporating our microalgae blends into the diet. All that algae biomass and species variety can be very useful. Our Shellfish Diet formula has enabled a variety of bivalave hatcheries to eliminate most of their microalgae production. Do you buy direct from us?

I noticed that you are using dry rotifers. We have a liquid suspension feed called Roti-Feast that contains 5 million fully enriched rotifers with many of them carrying eggs. We grow and enrich them with our marine microalgae blends, so the rotifers in this product are highly valuable. We have a number of people feeding Roti-Feast to corals.

I look forward to following this!

-Chad

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

That's quite a list of small particulate feeds! Glad to see you are incorporating our microalgae blends into the diet. All that algae biomass and species variety can be very useful. Our Shellfish Diet formula has enabled a variety of bivalave hatcheries to eliminate most of their microalgae production. Do you buy direct from us?

I noticed that you are using dry rotifers. We have a liquid suspension feed called Roti-Feast that contains 5 million fully enriched rotifers with many of them carrying eggs. We grow and enrich them with our marine microalgae blends, so the rotifers in this product are highly valuable. We have a number of people feeding Roti-Feast to corals.

I look forward to following this!

-Chad

I have apprx., 60 pacific oysters. From Sole Azul, BC, Mexico . These seem to be the hardy. 8 mo. in outside refugiums, so far. Some clams. Dendronephthya and scleronephthya hard to raise. Had to come up with, unorthodox methods to raise in a half moon tank. See what the future brings.

 

[Reef Nutrition]

I have apprx., 60 pacific oysters. From Sole Azul, BC, Mexico . These seem to be the hardy. 8 mo. in outside refugiums, so far. Some clams. Dendronephthya and scleronephthya hard to raise. Had to come up with, unorthodox methods to raise in a half moon tank. See what the future brings.

The Steinhart Aquarium at the Cal. Academy of Sciences uses our phytoplankton blends as part of the diet for their NPS corals, including Dendronephthya. You are certainly on the right track using microalgae along with other things. I love how you hang them in the tank. I never thought of that.

 

[Rispa]

Let me bump up your thread. I fed it some Hikari Coralific Delight today. I mixed it up, so it stayed kind of thick and squirter it on all the polyps after moving the coral into a small container. I then left for several hours. I came back and the polyps were remarkably clean and many of the mouths were open with the tentacles nubs out. I think this one is going to make it. if I go back I'll try to talk the store owner into selling more to me for cheap.

 

[Rispa]

Thanks again for the advice. It really loves the powdered food.

How are your guys doing? Everyone open, eating, and happy? What's me if that slit/hole you made?

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

The scleronephthya not great. I need to regroup and think of plan b.

 

[Rispa]

The scleronephthya not great. I need to regroup and think of plan b.

What do you think went/is going wrong?

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Type/amount food, need more filtration?

 

[Rispa]

Type/amount food, need more filtration?

What about adding pulsing xenia? MD what about raising different types of phytoplankton?

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I need test tank finish cycling , see if helps.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Work schedule hectic. Made fresh batch of food for corals. Can see better change of corals appearance just few minutes later, after feeding. So they do like food fed to them

 

[Sallstrom]

Type/amount food, need more filtration?

I'm back on land!

Any news? You thinking of more/better filtration? What's your parameters? KH, temp, NO3, PO4?

/ David