Dendronephthya & Scleronephthya aquaculture

[Dr. Dendrostein]

@najer can you see what your new softy coral retails for, to get better idea what they will cost, if possible. Thanks

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Yesterday I emailed a wholesaler, Coast tropical and mention when they're going to receive soft corals from Indonesia and he replied and said within the next 2-3 weeks. The owner is Mike everyone there is really nice

 

[najer]

@najer can you see what your new softy coral retails for, to get better idea what they will cost, if possible. Thanks

Car still clamped even paying everything to get it released, my friend can't drop it off, they are closed on Mondays so it will be Tuesday now, £120 and it is quite big apparently!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Car still clamped even paying everything to get it released, my friend can't drop it off, they are closed on Mondays so it will be Tuesday now, £120 and it is quite big apparently!

From the picture and using some of the other corals as reference, yes it's big and it's price about right, I think here in the US it'll be like $150. Maybe more.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

From @Daddy-o

 

[najer]

Car still clamped even paying everything to get it released, my friend can't drop it off, they are closed on Mondays so it will be Tuesday now, £120 and it is quite big apparently!

Update, I just called the shop to say I wouldn't be in to collect it and the young lady I often deal with on a Sunday said that that was fine and that she was looking at it!
She said she had just moved her?!
She said she so don't start!
"How big is it?" says me.
She called a couple of people over to judge, "About a foot" was the reply!
Yes I smiled a lot!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Update, I just called the shop to say I wouldn't be in to collect it and the young lady I often deal with on a Sunday said that that was fine and that she was looking at it!
She said she had just moved her?!
She said she so don't start!
"How big is it?" says me.
She called a couple of people over to judge, "About a foot" was the reply!
Yes I smiled a lot!

Haha, a monster, then in US price would be $200 or more....hahaha OMG!!!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

This morning
Pink cactus coral, rare. Vietnam
Right at beginning, bottom right, small dendronephthya

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Beautiful, from FB

 

[najer]

I was given this two weeks ago, shut down rescue, the purple is skeleton, slowly slowly!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I was given this two weeks ago, shut down rescue, the purple is skeleton, slowly slowly!

Nice, when my corals are in trouble, I know what ER to take them to....Hahaha

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Sent this out to people I know affiliated with or have contact with Aquarium Institutions


God willing, 3-5yrs, we (Oceanana) going crowd funding, if we reach goal. Providing you a 50 gallon standalone all Nps,,especially dendronephthya and scleronephthya sp. And after all expenses to travel, equipment. ...etc. also after all expenses, donate proceeds to you. Will you accept. After you I speak with *******, Dr. **********, ********** affiliated with the Smithsonian. *** actually called me about a month or two ago. He's on the board of directors with a different museum affiliated with the Smithsonian and he lets everyone know what I'm doing. Reply if you're interested. Thanks comrade.
Again only reply if yes. Thanks

All frags naturally attached no rubber bands,tooth picks,glue.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I emailed awhile ago, our goals on these corals to the director affiliated with a museum connected to the Smithsonian. I just text him and emailed him our goals again and he just text me back and said he's sending them off to the different directors that he knows which is a lot I would think.. we'll see what happens

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I just got text by director who is interested and our goal with these corals. Had a question about what size or the space the aquarium takes up. here's the text

Here's a text I sent to him

Don't forget *******, we're shooting for 3 to 5 years if it's sooner that will be a miracle. As regards to where the aquarium goes that would be determined by I would think the curator at the Museum sometimes if there's a marine biologist there he would give his input but the space the aquarium would take up is approximately two and a half feet wide, 4 ft long, 60 in tall.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Found an anomaly, my diy 3 timer computer control station, I call it the Alpha station, is not working. So both gyre's on same time instead of random. I was thinking flow was not performing as in the beginning when I first discovered it , a relay maybe at fault. Pappa maybe back in the game.

Stay tune.....

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

My new children of the sea. This is from Veitnam . Carnation coral. Frag 4 days ago

It's 1/4 inch small

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Here's second new member
From beautiful Tonga

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Through messenger correspondent briefly with Dr. Tim Wijgerde. Nice guy here's the communication

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Here's Indo softies, beautiful

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

The last key to better ,healthy nps softies. I'm hoping is flow. My flow pattern was off, I thought I wasn't feeding enough and come to find out that my flow was not operating the way it should. Hopefully by tonight I'll have it up and running and see how the corals react. If most improve then I'm back in the game, I hope I don't need to rotate corals , Carnation corals. So this is great test if flow is main issue.