Baby Goniopora

See the thing is for me this coral is considered one of the harder to keep LPS so if its got to struggle to get light by snaking its way around i would be a bit worried. But if your confident in its spot then hopefully it will be ok. Hopefully it will have ample area to grow into as well. I personally have not seen any pics of them winding around in a rock so I dont know if that is really a natural setting. But I am not 100%

When I say irritated I mean are the polyps extending nicely or are they retracted or very short. . When mine extends its extremly long. The goni's I had prior had poor extension. If you have a pic I am sure somebody could advise you better.

Good luck.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9425005#post9425005 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JokerGirl
I think the green ones have a higher propensity to bleach too?
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True. :wave:

That's another can of worms.
 
man those things are sweet when they get bigger.

i really like the green ones.

my lil guys could fit on a nickle, but they extend their heads about an inch.

is that long enough to be healthy?


also, how important is flow? they're kinda gettin blasted.
 
Here's the two that I have. The purple one actually contracted brown jelly and John Kelley has spent the last month of so helping me get it better. I've now got another one that my LFS gave to me to try to fix up. John Kelley has been a huge help and I think we're all lucky to have him around :)

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Flow should be intermitent and it really should be gentle. Hard flow makes mine retract and mine are very responsive to any type of current. If I so much as dip my hand in the surrounding water and cause a mild current to be forced onto them the affected section will close up. And open shortly after it feels safe it will reopen. I would not blast them with water at all. I have a Tunze wavebox in my tank so it gives them a nice sway.

I too have a small piece in a small hole in my rock. It is about 5 polyps worth. They dont have huge tentacles. If your specimen is very small still then its normal if its tentacles are smaller then the ones in my pic.

Its also important to make sure your specimen adapts well to your light. I run a 400w MH on a 30g at close to 18inches over the water. The coral is about 7 inches below the water surface or 25inchs below the light. mine seems to open on a nice schedule each day; its quite predictable and regimented. At night mine gets smaller and in the morning I let natural sunlight in and it gets a bit bigger then the actinics and it gets a little bigger then with the MH on it begins to open fully.

I feed coral phytoplankton as well.
 
Jokergirl very nice pieces. Your purple looks huge!! How big is it??
I see the dead section on it, but the rest is awesome .

Good luck with them
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9428504#post9428504 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vijaym85
Jokergirl very nice pieces. Your purple looks huge!! How big is it??
I see the dead section on it, but the rest is awesome .

Good luck with them
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Yeah that photo was taken the first week I had brought it home. You can't even see where that is anymore, but its the best photo IMO that I have of it. It's roughly about 7"x4"

If you go on John's forums, you can see the thread of me trying to save it. It was looking pretty gangly for a while there.


I can't wait to see those little green goniophytes to get bigger :) They're so silly looking like that. All polyps and no skeleton :)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9428590#post9428590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by G.SMITHII
i have never seen purple. those are SWEET!!!

if it ever drops a baby........:D

you got my pm!
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Unfortunately, it'll never drop a baby (as far as I know). It's a branching Goniopora, so it'll just continuously keep making new heads. I'd have to frag a piece off, and well... John has first dibs :)
 
Thanks!

You'd better post photos when you get your little baby boxes built! They're looking pretty good already though! I love the idea of putting them on tiles/slate. It's inexpensive, and easy to manipulate!
 
I'm wishing I had physically attached them to the tiles, but out of fear of damaging tissue I didnt ( there does appear to be some tissue even on the bottomside of the skeleton. Sadly one got blown out of the enclosure and landed in a ricordea it quickly contracted brown jelly and being as small as it was it was gone very quickly even with some attempts to save it. On a brighter note the one remaining is doing well. It appears to have added some polyps and is growing. Here's a couple pics. Please excuse the cyano, its becoming difficult to manage nitrients and keep everything fed and happy.

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Excuse me for interrupting your thread. John Kelley...so much for gonis only eating small micron food. My purple will eat a huge piece of food if it drops on it..I could'nt believe it if I had'nt seen it with my own eyes. The polyp just opened up, expanded...and took in a chunk of food the other day at least as big as an eraser.
Joker girl, that is an amazing branching purple!:eek2:
 
Thats a shame that you lost the one, but the one you still have is looking great! Hopefully it continues to grow and do well for you!

Thanks Waterfaller1 :)
 
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