Walking dendros... im finally doing it

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Just expanded their pen, the white dry rocks are the boundaries. They get the entire back half of the tank

 

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It looks like they're most active at night, haven't seen them move in the day but the lights switched off two hours ago and one has already moved

 

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So it turns out that all three actually have the peanut worm! The 3rd one must have been hiding deep within the skeleton when i added it yesterday

 

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Just fed them here's a time-lapse

 

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Just got a better photo

 

[DanyL]

How about a timelapse of them moving?

 

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How about a timelapse of them moving?

Would be hard as they only move at night, but I'll try

 

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This guy is hard to see from the front

Can you find it?

 

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Also the path this one has carved out of the sand. Most of it was just tonight

 

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Here's to give you an idea how much they move in one night

All the way in the back

 

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You can really see actually how big the worm is when they're out like this

 

[AstroMelly]

This is cool! Where did you get them from? How are you getting on with your sea spiders?

 

[OrchidMiss]

@Crabby48

 

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This is cool! Where did you get them from? How are you getting on with your sea spiders?

https://eyecatchingcoral.com/

This wholesaler, my LFS orders from here and I asked for walking dendros to be added on this month's order.


Unfortunately still struggling with the spiders, getting 2-4 daily... found one with eggs this weekend, though I get them as soon as I spot them so they don't have as long of a time to damage the coral (hopefully)

 

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Two more feeding time lapses

 

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The trail they leave after moving

 

[m0nkie]

How are they doing now?

Im interested in some of these dendro coral, not so much of the worm and the moving. Lol

 

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How are they doing now?

Im interested in some of these dendro coral, not so much of the worm and the moving. Lol

They're still doing good, they get fed every other day 2 large mysis, they are very good sand sifters and always manage to get into the most obscure places on feeding day. I recently had a 36 hour power outage and was really concerned about them but they're (for the most part) fine

 

[KristyB.]

I've had a peanut worm in the base of a leather coral. It's been two years. I don't know how long it will live, but it's been awhile and it was full sized when I bought the coral.

I bought one 4-5 years ago. The dendro died,the worm still pulls around a dead coral lol