Dendronephthya & Scleronephthya aquaculture

[najer]

Do they tell you what type of soft Coral it is

No, they always have a few neptheas in the delivery.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

My favorite from Indonesia

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

No, they always have a few neptheas in the delivery.

If my shipment comes in from Bali, I have like four neptheas , on their list they're called water tree corals so I'm curious what they are

 

[najer]

If my shipment comes in from Bali, I have like four neptheas , on their list they're called water tree corals so I'm curious what they are

Interesting, these come in as bush corals lol.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Bali corals schedule to pick up has been moved to the 17th, different importer just emailed me and let me know he has some orange sun cup corals from Australia waiting for me, looks like tomorrow I'll be picking them up.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Since returning back to the hobby in October 10th 2017 I found this company and I've never had any issues getting corals from them but there's things out of their control like covid-19 and airline situations and coral bans,
The owner of the company I called him Sir Len (he's English), so I do a shout-out at this time for New Age Aquatics. They only deal with companies that have only a resale license so anyone can get that it's free in most states and you can do business with them and they take credit card so can't get burned,
Again that's New Age Aquatics

 

[bam123]

Well the corals from Aquarium Depot bit the dust and were not Stereos (no scratch marks), but scleros. Aquarium Depot was cool about it and said they would refund the money. The customer rep said the wholesaler (one of the largest in the country) was ticked and was going to do a facebook live post on how wrong I am, and that she would share the link. I will gladly post here) In short, I had a good experience with aquarium depot but would not buy "stereos" there.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Well the corals from Aquarium Depot bit the dust and were not Stereos (no scratch marks), but scleros. Aquarium Depot was cool about it and said they would refund the money. The customer rep said the wholesaler (one of the largest in the country) was ****** and was going to do a facebook live post on how wrong I am, and that she would share the link. I will gladly post here) In short, I had a good experience with aquarium depot but would not buy "stereos" there.

Bummer, send link

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Boy, one of the sun cup corals is massive. I've never had one this big. Second piece is good size and I was given three small pieces

He get some exotic stuff from Australia everywhere else, new age Aquatics, sir Len

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

All these years and I learn something new about Reef keeping, All salts are not equal. I was buying instant ocean for the price and thinking it had all the elements of ocean water. So I'm changing over to Red Sea Pro salt

Could be why from 0 to 10 we are at a 9.5. Time will tell

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

You can follow NPS reef keepers on FB

Non-Photosynthetic Corals (NPS) Reef Keeper

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I placed an order yesterday for a box of carnation corals from Australia they haven't said when they're coming but they're taking orders at this time, would be nice if they look anything like the pictures

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

When I return October 10th 2017, like 4 months later, I had one of these, it was beautiful

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Just brought this

 

[User1]

Just brought this

Looks really nice.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Looks really nice.

If conditions right, grows like weeds. NPS softie

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Today my DI resin came in

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

From Australia, Carnation Coral. Last time I saw this Coral was December 2017. Never showed up again and here we are 2020. I hope it's healthy

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Found these today, Carnation calls from Tonga

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

This is experimental I'm duplicating conditions from the larger tank to a 7.5 gallon nano tank , there is a 4 gallon sump, 8 oysters in the display hidden and 12 in the sump,and see if it will keep these corals thriving.