Anyone keeping yellow goniopora?

[Ssteve]

My mom loved a yellow goniopora we saw at the LFS and I figured I would challenge myself with it. Plan to target phytoplankton and dose a little iron. Hopefully it will survive as it is really a very good looking coral.

 

[Ssteve]

Here it is about 20min after acclimation.

 

[Reef Frog]

Very nice. Do you know if it was aquacultured or wild caught? BTW I'm fairly certain that the don't utilize phytoplankton for food - they eat zooplankton. I am using TLF Gonipower on an ORA Red with good early results.

 

[Nina51]

nice!

i also feed goniopower.

 

[Bratyboy2]

Where do you get goniopower?

 

[Ssteve]

Im not sure if it was wild or not, but I would assume not since a large majority of the stuff my lfs gets is aquacultured. Ill give the goniopower a shot. Dr foster smiths has it real cheap.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=25313

 

[fishcraze_1]

Here is a closeup of my Ultra Yellow Goni

 

[fishcraze_1]

And this is my Neon Yellow Goni

 

[Ssteve]

Well I got scared, returned it and used the credit for a potters angel.

 

[albano]

Well I got scared, returned it and used the credit for a potters angel.

The bad news is... the Potters angel is almost as bad as goniopora ! Many that seem to be doing fine, will just drop dead!

 

[Ssteve]

Yeah I read up on them a bit. Seems some think they do better in cooler water. I run 76, and he already eats flake and pellets(sinking nls so far). Hopefully all goes well.

 

[Cu455]