Carnation (Dendro)

[ChilisREasy]

What micron food does carnations eat..im guessing NOT phytoplankton...im looking for organinc/meaty high protien sugar foods..baby brine shrimp,Zoo plankton.MarineSnow..anything else...i have had mine for 5 months..did good untill strange sticks appeared & sprayed webs over it ..now its feathery blooms are silky looking & its shrinking..but my small quarter inch frags are doing great.

[ChilisREasy]

anyone know what these sticks are.there still shooting webs everywhere.& is now bothering my xenias.

[Reefyone]

ChilisRaasy, can you reduce numper of posts to one thread on the one topic - it's diffucul to track information, disseminated in the several threads.

BTW, I had the same dendro, as you have.

[ChilisREasy]

this thread was started before my ''Dendronepthya'' Study board here
it was to find out what these stick things are & if it WAS the cause of the carnations blooms becoming silky,not as a focused experiance thread.

[Reefyone]

Originally Posted by ChilisREasy

this thread was started before my ''Dendronepthya'' Study board here
it was to find out what these stick things are & if it WAS the cause of the carnations blooms becoming silky,not as a focused experiance thread.

Can you give a link to this Study board, please? How many people are involved?
Thanks.

[ChilisREasy]

your on it...its not very popular here.its the ''Dendronepthya SP.'' Thread in the soft corals section, seems to me not very many people try the new food products for these corals anymore,& new poeple get corals wich they think are dendros but are not, (this has happend many times on other sites) so that disturbs the whole thing. i think for the most part hobbyist have given up, tho i have not !

[Reefyone]

Thanks.
The last two months I started try the different forums, trying to find where are people with similar corals and similar problems. Not much luck so far. A lot of non-keepers discussions, why it can't be done.
Best of luck in our enveadors, to the both of us.

[tims]

where in the picture is the sticks?

carantion corals will take both phytoplankton and zooplankton.
the carnation is a asexualy coral, it will drop off babies

[ChilisREasy]

its the stick-like thingy with the red circle around it. they are less than an inch tall,but shoot webs over 1 foot long, they grab shrimp & cover corals,since they started spraying my dendro all the blooms on the mother colony effected have became silky & no longer open, i do not belive its dieng over feeding requirements,it did perfect & was growing like mad for over 5 months. & Is STILL droping off healthy little ones.

[tims]

i belive those are worms from what you are saying. not sure how you can safely move them

[Reefyone]

If it looks something like that, it could be vermetid, they come in different sizes. At the Reef Central, invertebrates forum, is a very knowledgable worm guy, curator of the museum, but he will need picture. (Sorry,moderators, if I'm breaking rules).

[ChilisREasy]

nope thats not them, the webs are like spider webs, they stay attached to the stick & there is a tiny thingy that moves around inside the base but never comes out & the sticks have a curled base they dont encrust like a root system.