I will call this dd1 (Don's Dendron #1)
- Age of system
5 years
- Net water volume including sump, fuge, etc
400 gallons
- Dimensions of tank(s) with Dendronephthya
48L x 32H x 30W
- Biological filtration (biopellets, fuge, etc)
Sumps with macro mix, new Bio Pellets
- Mechanical filtration (skimmer, filter sock, etc)
3 skimmers....2 Oct 200 and and old Theil Aquatech
- Chemical filtration (carbon, GFO, ozone, etc)
Carbon always. GFO always but discontinued use with Bio pellets also add microbacter7
- Brand of salt(s) used
Reef Crystals
- Amount and frequency of water changes
Weekly 30 gallons
- Feeding regimen (what you feed, how much of each type and how often)
A mixture of:
Reef nutrition:
Oyster Feast
Phyto feast
Shell fish Diet
Fauna Marin
Clam Food
Sea Fan Food
Ultra Min S
Ultra Min F
Tropic Marin
Pro-Coral Zooton
Immuvit
New Life Spectrum
Reef Micro-feeder
Coral Frenzy
I mix this all up and dose from a fridge every hour. About 4 tablespoons per hour. In addition the tank is fed twice a day a mixture of flake and pellets and nightly Cyclops or Rods Food.
- Fish species kept
Kole Tang
Powdered Blue Tang
5 Bartletts
Flame hawk
Algae Blenny
Pistol Shrimp
2 Yellow Head Jaw Fish
Green Coris Wrasse
Meleagris Wrasse
- Type of food fed to fishes and how often
A mixture of various Pellets and flake food fed twice a day
- Circulation pumps and total gph
Tunze Wavebox, Tunze 6205, Koralia 3, Blueline 70 return pump
- Type of flow (laminar, alternating, random, any combination of these)
Combination. Dendrons are in laminar flow both down ward and across.
- Lighting
2 400 watt MH 20k and 6 LED spotlights all blue
- Lighting period
2 spotlights on at 7:00am until 11 pm
4 Led spotlights on at 10 am until 10 pm
2 MH on at 2:30pm to 8:30pm
- Other corals kept
SPS, LPS too many to name
- pics of the dendronephthya
Picked it up 10/5/10
As of 11/25/10:
This one looks to have grown. It stayed tightly balled up for weeks and recently has been opening up to what the current pic shows. It is open most of the time now.
DD#2
Added 11/5/10
It looks pretty much the same. It has expanded more. Came with two Dendronephthya Crabs on it. I can no longer find them. I believe they are on the back side of the coral or removed by my wrasses. Not sure.