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Old 07-03-2002, 12:45 AM
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Default Difficult corals....

Oh man I was lusting over one of those a couple of weekends ago at a store in Vancouver. I didn't buy it at the time because I wasn't interested in having another algae covered coral but I was sure it said on the sign that they were photosynthetic. Of course they did have a gorgonian like yours in the same tank. Sneaky buggers.
Dendronepthya is another coral that I think is a difficult one. Man do they ever need a constant feed supply. I accidentally (well ok, I was young and stupid) bought one of these at Big Als once, nobody seemed to know what it was and it sure was pretty. It was a tiny shrunken thing and I thought that was what it was supposed to look like. After getting it home I discovered that it had grown to 3 times its normal size and definitely was a dendronepthya. I couldn't believe how much it took to feed it so it would stay upright. In the wild dendronepthya are found upside down in nutrient rich currents and they feed constantly. That would be pretty hard to replicate in any tank I would think.

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