My azoox tank !

[titi59]

Good evening everyone, I recently bought a red sea 250 and I started in reef. But that does not appeal to me (I do not like havinga tank that look like everyone) and I cracked for a magnificent red Dendronephthya and after a long hesitation (I was afraid to run into me since it takes the involvement behind ...) I decided to try it! I placed it in a cave specially arranged for him with a gentle stream running through it, it was fed 4 times a day with reef pearl and planktomarine. It's been three months that I have, it grows very rapidly and colonizes the stones around him, I Cutting 3 times and polyps grow back at the place of cutting.
I found a couple in Dendronephthya Anomura crabs and a couple of Synalpheus shrimp.

Seeing that non-symbiotic walked pretty well, I decided to sell me to corals redeem others, and here I am with a red Dendronephthya, a white Dendronephthya, a black neospongodes, a scleronephthya gracillicium, 3 paraminabea and a nephthyigorgia!

I'm trying to sell to other corals from a total non-symbiotic and I plan to add non-symbiotic gorgonians, a sponge haclilona and a lima scabra, if you a trick for their maintenance !

Of course I want a notebook with each species to indicate each cuttings and changes!

If someone is also launched in the adventure I'm interested in tips and notes on my project and of course I accept all criticism!

I'll redo my decor to make a large cave in the center or corals are more in the dark and for them to be the center of the scene, I bought a new skimmer order supported pollution generated by the feeding ( 3 times a day with pearl reef, phytoplankton and soft coral pro) and I intend also decrease the intensity of the lighting.

As against the neospongodes opens only light ... Any idea why?

 

I have bought one yellow menella, one blue menella, one red gorgonia, two pink chironephthya, one pink carnation coral, one sun coral

 

 

My tank

Thank you all!

[metrokat]

Glad to see you have success with carnation and chilli corals. What are you feeding them exactly, is it any particular brand of food?

[Tamberav]

I have had a chili coral for several years now. I don't even feed it, it just gets whatever leftovers it finds. Very easy and nice looking coral imo.

 

I am interested to see how they all do for you, keep us updated.

[titi59]

Thanks

 

For the food, i use Planktomarine, reef Pearl, red plankton, soft coral Xpro and phytoplankton.

I feed three to four times per day on the syringe directly on each coral, to make sure they eat properly

 

- Red dendronephthya: soon five months in the aquarium, I have observed a slight increase, I propagated by cuttings three times and three places branches grew back.

- Pink dendronephthya: 1 month in the tank, it swells during the day and at night, and deflates the morning, nothing to report at this time.

- Dendronephthya mucronata: Same as the pink Dendronephthya.

- Scleronephthya pink and orange: 3 months in the aquarium. No growth at the mother foot, against two releases were doing on the base, which is a good sign.

- Scleronephthya orange and yellow: 1 month in the tank, no growth at the mother plant, but three large releases were doing so good sign also.

- Nephthyigorgia: 3 months in the tank. Inflated all day and all night, he eats everything, I propagated by cuttings three times, but regrowth is much longer than red Dendronephthya.

- Paraminabea: 3 months in the tank. It opens only at night and only takes krill and Artemia. It has very large polyps.

- Candelabrum: It opens day and night, no particular cycle, and especially eat planktomarine.

- Tubastrea: 1 month in the aquarium, it opens every night for his feeding, and did a little rejection on its base.

- Neospongodes purple: 3 months in the aquarium, slight growth, two cuttings were made, he pushes fast enough, but a bit slower than the red dendronephthya.

- Pink chironephthya: 1 month in the tank, no visible growth, I did not realize cuttings, polyps open only in the dark or at night.

- Menella yellow and blue: 1 month in the aquarium. Polyps always open day and night, no cuttings made, visible growth in necrotic areas, flesh covers those parts.

- Red Gorgonia : 2 months in the aquarium, polyps open in the late afternoon, she was cutting twice, visible growth.