I've posted these pictures in my build thread too, but figure I'll get more looks with a separate thread. These corals arrived on my live rock, with nothing more than wet paper towels to keep them moist. I figured they were dead, but left them as they were.
They started showing a pinkish color around the base after being in the tank a week, and then I noticed small clear tentacles extending out of most of the tips. They don't seem to care if lights are on or off for extension. Another tiny one is on another rock, more out of the flow than the big one, and it's tentacles are much longer, like a little clear tree sticking out of a hard base. The tentacles on both are identical. I fed the little one a brine shrimp and it grabbed it, retracted slightly and took it's time pulling the food down into itself. I thought it was very cool of course.
It's not a great pic of the little one, follow the top peak of the rock straight down, it's a grayish bit sticking out of a hard coral ring.
My question is, is it a dendro or similar thing? Can I save it? What can I do to help it?
I tried to feed the larger one, but it's tentacle things aren't very extended and I don't have anything to 'squirt' food at it, just some long planting tweezers from my planted tank stuff. Should I move it out of the flow? It's rock is perched right in the path of the return flow.
They started showing a pinkish color around the base after being in the tank a week, and then I noticed small clear tentacles extending out of most of the tips. They don't seem to care if lights are on or off for extension. Another tiny one is on another rock, more out of the flow than the big one, and it's tentacles are much longer, like a little clear tree sticking out of a hard base. The tentacles on both are identical. I fed the little one a brine shrimp and it grabbed it, retracted slightly and took it's time pulling the food down into itself. I thought it was very cool of course.
It's not a great pic of the little one, follow the top peak of the rock straight down, it's a grayish bit sticking out of a hard coral ring.
My question is, is it a dendro or similar thing? Can I save it? What can I do to help it?
I tried to feed the larger one, but it's tentacle things aren't very extended and I don't have anything to 'squirt' food at it, just some long planting tweezers from my planted tank stuff. Should I move it out of the flow? It's rock is perched right in the path of the return flow.
