Anyone have luck with barnacles?

[jdoenumber2]

I got one on a colony of blue antheia. Cool looking thing.

 

[J. Montgomery]

I've gotten them as hitchhikers but they never last more than a few months.

 

[CadetMKultra]

I used to have 3 tanks of local stuff from the water around NYC. I had lots of barnacles, but then again, I did water changes using water right out of the estuary. They were cool to watch. Try feeding it some filter feeder foods like phyto-feast or something.

 

[Elysia]

I have one huge barnacle that came on some oysters that are acting as the substrate for some hairy mushrooms that I bought. The whole thing has been in captivity since November, and the barnacle is still alive (its shell is the approx. size of a grown-up's thumb, from the top joint up.) I have some small gobies and gorgs in w/ it now, and feed cyclops, cyclopeeze, and phyto.

 

[VacavilleFC3S]

i have a barnacle growing between 2 heads on my candycane it has severly stunted the growth of that head

 

[SDguy]

I had a trio living in a galaxia colony. They lived for over two years.

 

[iamwhatiam52]

Anyone tried Gooseneck barnacles?
Loads of them get washed up on beaches in Florida attached to floating debris.
They have huge cirri and I wonder if they might take large food like cyclopeez

 

[rharr21]

Goosenecks seem like they'd be hardy if you could feed them. I've seen them covering lumps of tar like petroleum smelling stuff floating in the water in Florida.

I've had a barnacles or to on a few SPS that seemed to live for a long time.