Dendros, Balanos, and more!!
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fishieness
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here is my one polyp of dendro!
sorry. couldnt resist. id love to get a small colony, but my lfs never sells a polyp.ive seen one once, but didnt have the money. how fast do they grow if fed?
viper_930
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LOL
Just keep an eye out and sometimes you can get them at a great price. I bought my colony of the coccinea with 7 polyps large polyps + 1 small polyp for about $120. Then I sold 1 polyp so really I only payed 60 bucks for 7 polyps total.
The growth should be similar to that of branching frogspawns or hammers if they're fed often. I feed all my dendros once per day.
Just keep an eye out and sometimes you can get them at a great price. I bought my colony of the coccinea with 7 polyps large polyps + 1 small polyp for about $120. Then I sold 1 polyp so really I only payed 60 bucks for 7 polyps total.
The growth should be similar to that of branching frogspawns or hammers if they're fed often. I feed all my dendros once per day.
fishieness
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Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
LOL
Just keep an eye out and sometimes you can get them at a great price. I bought my colony of the coccinea with 7 polyps large polyps + 1 small polyp for about $120. Then I sold 1 polyp so really I only payed 60 bucks for 7 polyps total.
The growth should be similar to that of branching frogspawns or hammers if they're fed often. I feed all my dendros once per day.
oh boy. in a year my frogspawn has gone from 3 heads to about 20. im goign to have to buy some of these suckers. they look great, sell great, and go for a great price!
LOL
Just keep an eye out and sometimes you can get them at a great price. I bought my colony of the coccinea with 7 polyps large polyps + 1 small polyp for about $120. Then I sold 1 polyp so really I only payed 60 bucks for 7 polyps total.
The growth should be similar to that of branching frogspawns or hammers if they're fed often. I feed all my dendros once per day.
oh boy. in a year my frogspawn has gone from 3 heads to about 20. im goign to have to buy some of these suckers. they look great, sell great, and go for a great price!
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promisetbg
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Great pics! I love my dendro. It has grown from 3 polyps to 9 in little over a year. How does the ballanophyllia sp. compare in looks and size to the dendrophyllia coccinea?
viper_930
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Thanks for the comments. The balano pretty much looks just like a sun coral and is the same size, except it's open almost 24/7. The piece in the picture is almost 1.5" across. When I bought the balano I asked for two polyps for 20 bucks/polyp, but instead I recieved 10.
What do you guys feed your dendros and how often?
What do you guys feed your dendros and how often?
mrdc
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I feed mine mostly mysis every other day. When I take the canopy off for maintenance (once a week), I will drop in a lot of pellets. I plan to buy more meaty foods like krill and use it just for them. I have also seen it grab a few flakes when I am feeding the fish but I don't spot feed them flakes. Now I need to focus n my acan lords. They look healthy but aren't spreading due ti lack of spot feeding. That will change
fishieness
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Originally Posted by ViPeR_930
Thanks for the comments. The balano pretty much looks just like a sun coral and is the same size, except it's open almost 24/7. The piece in the picture is almost 1.5" across. When I bought the balano I asked for two polyps for 20 bucks/polyp, but instead I recieved 10.
What do you guys feed your dendros and how often?
hmm... they do look a lot like sun corals. i have seen dendros and oculd identify them in person, but maybe i have been mistaken blanos for suncorals? so is the main difference in seeing them that they are open during the day? and it appears that they are more of a polyp while a sun coral has more orange flesh aroudn the polyp
Thanks for the comments. The balano pretty much looks just like a sun coral and is the same size, except it's open almost 24/7. The piece in the picture is almost 1.5" across. When I bought the balano I asked for two polyps for 20 bucks/polyp, but instead I recieved 10.
What do you guys feed your dendros and how often?
hmm... they do look a lot like sun corals. i have seen dendros and oculd identify them in person, but maybe i have been mistaken blanos for suncorals? so is the main difference in seeing them that they are open during the day? and it appears that they are more of a polyp while a sun coral has more orange flesh aroudn the polyp
viper_930
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The polyps on sun corals are much more spaced appart from each other and protrude outwards. The polyps of this balano are snug side-by-side and are completely flat against the rock when closed. I guess it's possible that you may have seen a balano and thought it was a sun coral, but I think that would be highly unlikely because balanos are very rare.
My goal is to eventually (sooner rather than later) get a B. ponderosa which is similar in shape and color to the D. coccinea but can grow twice as big. I only know of one guy that was selling a couple, but he's out for now.
My goal is to eventually (sooner rather than later) get a B. ponderosa which is similar in shape and color to the D. coccinea but can grow twice as big. I only know of one guy that was selling a couple, but he's out for now.
promisetbg
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Well let me know when he gets more..LOL. I feed my dendros chopped squid and they get HUGE! They also get whatever's on the menu for the day which includes all of this on alternating days.
Fresh~ clam, shrimp, mussell, sguid,grouper
Frozen~Piscine mysis every day
ON's formula VHP,Prime reef,Invert Formula
Cyclop-eeze, Golden Pearls,Rotifers,Clams, DT's Oyster eggs
Dry~ Coral Vibrance, ORA-Glo
Liquid~Chromamax,Selcon,Zoe
Jar~ Sweetwater Zooplankton
Ther's lots more stuff in my freezer, but that's all I can think of at the moment. Diversity is always great for healthy corals and fish.
Fresh~ clam, shrimp, mussell, sguid,grouper
Frozen~Piscine mysis every day
ON's formula VHP,Prime reef,Invert Formula
Cyclop-eeze, Golden Pearls,Rotifers,Clams, DT's Oyster eggs
Dry~ Coral Vibrance, ORA-Glo
Liquid~Chromamax,Selcon,Zoe
Jar~ Sweetwater Zooplankton
Ther's lots more stuff in my freezer, but that's all I can think of at the moment. Diversity is always great for healthy corals and fish.
fishieness
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hello, im bringing this thread back because i have a question for viper
so yesterday i was at one of my LFS and i saw what looked to be a black version of a balano... but then again, who the heck knows? not me, that's for sure. but never having heard of a black species, i asked what it was and was told by someone (although even he admitted to me that he doesnt know a lot about corals because all he keeps are some softies) that he thinks it was a suncoral that was jsut recessing. which is why i didnt buy it, i was wondering if it was jsut a dieing sun coral. but the polyps were pea sized, and i dont think ive seen a suncoral with full grown pea sized polyps, not even the black ones?
was this a balano or dendro or something else? or was it jsut a dieing black suncoral?
it had no tissue surrounding the skeleton, jsut the polyps.
PS: it was also out during the day?
so yesterday i was at one of my LFS and i saw what looked to be a black version of a balano... but then again, who the heck knows? not me, that's for sure. but never having heard of a black species, i asked what it was and was told by someone (although even he admitted to me that he doesnt know a lot about corals because all he keeps are some softies) that he thinks it was a suncoral that was jsut recessing. which is why i didnt buy it, i was wondering if it was jsut a dieing sun coral. but the polyps were pea sized, and i dont think ive seen a suncoral with full grown pea sized polyps, not even the black ones?
was this a balano or dendro or something else? or was it jsut a dieing black suncoral?
it had no tissue surrounding the skeleton, jsut the polyps.
PS: it was also out during the day?