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UNOFFICIAL SUN CORAL/DENDRO/RHYZO THREAD


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I fed my black suns pellets all the time before dinos killed it. It would take as many as I would give it, as many times in a row as I would give it, I think one time I measured two tablespoons (!) in about an hour before it started spitting some back. I have no idea where it put all of it.

 

OK. So the pellets I was previously using must've been cr*p. I've been feeding my tubastrea hikari marine S pellets and they've been really liking it

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A few weeks ago I was picking up some mysis cubes and when I got home I realized I had accidentally bought frozen mussel cubes. I figured I might as well chop them up (the pieces in the cubes were quite large) and try feeding them to my sun corals and dendros - turns out they LOVE the mussels! They have always opened daily and look nice, but the extension they get now is ridiculous! The mussels cubes will now be a staple in my frozen reef food stash.

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I'd also check LiveAquaria Divers Den in their non-photosynthetic section. They occassionally will have some dendros for sale there.

 

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/CatDisplay.cfm?c=2733+10&siteid=20&ref=4282&subref=AI&cmpid=E-_-TR-_-DDN-_-PNPS

 

I just checked e-bay and someone has a 1 polyp fat head dendro for $30, shipping is $55 though......

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIVE-CORAL-WYSIWYG-Fat-Head-Dendrophyllia-NPS-/301724030809?hash=item4640275759

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I'd also check LiveAquaria Divers Den in their non-photosynthetic section. They occassionally will have some dendros for sale there.

 

http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/CatDisplay.cfm?c=2733+10&siteid=20&ref=4282&subref=AI&cmpid=E-_-TR-_-DDN-_-PNPS

 

I just checked e-bay and someone has a 1 polyp fat head dendro for $30, shipping is $55 though......

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LIVE-CORAL-WYSIWYG-Fat-Head-Dendrophyllia-NPS-/301724030809?hash=item4640275759

The shipping is what is the killer but they often pop up on liveaqaria
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Ooooo after going through this thread I am definitely joining the sun coral club . I can't get one for awhile cause my tank is less than two weeks old and still cycling, I found a black sun coral forsale and red chili I was thinking of calling my local LFS and see if they will hold it for a little bit, or am I jumping the gun?

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Black suncorals (tubastrea micrantha) tend to be difficult to keep.

What makes it harder to keep then other sun corals? Just out of curiosity .

I'm not going buy a thing till my tank is fully setup and established I've decided.

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I picked up another dendro polyp, smaller and more orange than the ones I have. They threw in a balano polyp plus a frag of black and yellow sun corals. They need some tlc, no surprise there but still super cool. I thought the yellows were goners at first but after killing an aiptasia in the middle of them they look 10x better. Blacks have only opened a little so far.

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