Reef Discussion

[brendore]

Anyone have any tips on the best way of keeping these guys alive long term in captivity?

 

[MagicJ]

This article by Julian Sprung is not a bad place to start.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/12/inverts

 

[MTG]

Lots of coral food seems to be the only option. Reef roids is a good start :)

 

[brendore]

Thanks for that link Shane, it's a good read.. Seems like dosing supplementations of manganese and iron are the key... Thankfully I already do that! I'm using B/W Replenish which has manganese in it and a iron supplement to encourage macro growth in my tank, so fingers crossed my new addition does well! I also killed it in the placement of it too, it's half sheltered by live rock, so it's getting the diffused lighting and irregular low flowing current :D

 

[MTG]

I would get it under full light mate

 

[brendore]

I'll see how it goes where it is, apparently according to that link Shane posted, Julian advises using low to moderate lighting for them.. I'll leave it alone for a couple days to settle and see what happens :)

 

[MTG]

What lighting do you have?

 

[Matman]

I've got mine under full light and it loves it.I mix up a brew of chopped up myisis and brine shrimp and use a turkey baster and squirt a heap into the top of it and it feeds itself.Its grown quite a bit since I've put it in my DT.Only problem I've had is my female clown has worked out there is food in there and is flogging it lol.

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[brendore]

I've got 4x 54W T5's. 1x 20K, 1x Fiji purple and 2x actinic. I've decided I'm going to let it settle for another day or so.. It still hasn't fully expanded yet and then try a few locations, leaving it for a week or so in each one

 

[MTG]

4x t5s isn't much light, I had my gonis under 8 tubes. They loved it!!!

 

[Matman]

This one i bought a couple of months ago,its doing really well.First shot was taken while having been in my tank a week or so.You can see how much the polyps have extended as you cant see the base of it in the second shot.

 

[MTG]

my old goni

any my pink goni

 

[Agent M]

http://www.mattrichards.id.au/goni_green.html

You guys might find this link interesting. He has had this coral for years.