Dendronephthya & Scleronephthya aquaculture

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Summers right around the corner so I need to get ready quarter horsepower chiller. Stay tune

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

trying to figure out where to put the chiller. The little red coral looking good all the other ones coming back to life.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Black sun coral coming out. even with the lights on they came out , they usually like the dark

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Ozone is coming, trying to reduce organic waste in water, next protein skimmer. Working on that, trying get water cleaner

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Restarted denitrator, NO3 15 ppm, get down to 5 ppm. Stay tune

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

So I have the dendronephthya corals at the Backwoods Lab which is in the boonies and I came this morning check up on my children of the sea and the tank was missing 5 to 7 gallons of water the suflur denitrator had sprung a leak. Didn't lose anything thank God, my OR P when up.
The tiny Coral that's a very bright magenta it's about 2 1/5 to 3 inches, corals getting comfortable the other corals should be up right are also happy, one Coral when I got sick 4 and a half weeks ago is coming back to life

Tank half moon, one day I'll take so much pictures

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Was sick for 4 and 1/2 weeks and I just checked the calendar and one of the corals is three months old, so that's progress so far and coming back to life from the neglect of me being sick.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I received this litophyton colony, I wish I could get a better picture but it's semi round tank doesn't help. All polyps are open healthy specimen

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

reminds me of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. One of the 8th wonders of the world

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

As of today where are we to progress. Thomas Edison mentioned that his failures we're actually steps toward success.
1000 steps for light bulb,10,000 toward alkaline battery.

Like I mentioned earlier I have one dendronephthya that is 3 months old recouping from neglect of me being sick and that's a good thing, shows which are hardy in these corals.

I'll mention this briefly two types of foods are fed liquid and dry. For liquid we have Reef nutrition it's Phytofeast (not live), a raw egg in a blender with some Reef roids, then added to the 5 gallon bucket with Reef nutrition(100ml) in there, also any fine like flour protein foods like locust, grasshoppers, whole anchovies, you get the picture. I add strontium, also add blend it up oysters, fill the 5 gallon bucket with 3 to 4 gallons of saltwater. Mix and feed 10 milliliters every hour.

For dry I make 8 oz of mix Reef roids, Locust, grasshopper, organic whole anchovies, all of these are very fine like flour consistency. Add to fish feeder that is program to come on less in the day more at night. Daytime every 2 hours and at night every hour. All foods are fed less through the day, night more.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Some of the recent thistle corals I purchased should be upright, now I need to incorporate tank design that includes this feature bummer.
Here's samples

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

This Saturday will test ozone, to reduce organic carbon floating around

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Installed ozone ORP from 326 to 340. Week or two bump to 350. Stay tune

All corals fat and plumpie may not look that way in photos

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Just noticed small yellow sun coral polyps, single polyps, scattered throughout DT ,15+ everywhere, so cool

Sample photos

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I want this, white sun polyp corals, rare

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Sunday I'll be checking on my children of the sea

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Soft corals from Papua New Guinea this summer

 

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Soft corals from Papua New Guinea this summer

Those crab looks amazing.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Those crab looks amazing.

When Indo corals were available two crabs came on couple dendronephthya colonies, they were cool. They had habit of plucking polyps from host coral and use are camouflage. Wild. Since ban no more crabs.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I'm at Backwoods Lab, in the boonies. So I had one dendronephthya deteriorate from base. So frag it. Survival of the fittest. I have 10+ colonies now. Yellow sunflower polyps everywhere.