Blueberry Gorgonian
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LovenBama
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mine is too showing new growth and is doing well....thinking that it likes the oyster feast that I feed best...within a few minutes after adding it, the polyps just explode and about 20mins after that, they close-up tightly for about 1-2 hours before they begin to peek out again. Would like to see a new photo of yours Ourmanflint when you get a chance. I'm not convinced that it needs shade tho...mine and my sister's(doorlady) both sit out on the sand in a well lit area of the tank, however, they do sit in good flow areas and I've not seen any signs of algae on mine so far and she hasn't mentioned any problems with it on her either. Keep us posted on anything you find that has an affect on it, be it good or bad.
ourmanflint
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I'll update the pics tomorrow if I get a chance, great to see others doing well with this. For me I think the key is fast flow so that any food in the water column is pulled through the arms of the animal. And because of the turbulence the arms and polyps themselves cause a flow of at least 10cm/sec is needed, in fact mine prefer it when I wizz up the Vortechs to max, with a flow rate of about 15-20cm/sec.
ourmanflint
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Bit of an update I think. I've had it for 3 months now and I must admit I heve neglected it a little over the xmas/new year period, but it's looking OK. Also installed new lighting ATI 8x54w which is an awful lot brighter than my old 8x39w unit, so there has been a bit of an adjustment to that as well I'm sure. One thing I'm pretty certain of is that there are a lot more polyps than when I first bought it and I they are now all on the opposite side of the gorg facing the vortech but with their backs to the main flow, they're also a bit smaller. Not sure what this all means but here is a pic.
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oldreefer76
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Very Nice
Any updates on how its doing? I had one about a year ago that didn't make it through the shipping process (got lost on an ups truck all day), and lost all of its polyps over the course of the following week. To my surprise, like many other corals, a few weeks after I started noticing polyp growth at the base of the trunk. I usually leave dying coral in the tank, since many seem to rebound and grow back. Unfortunately I had an algae outbreak that overpowered the few polyps soon after and killed it for good.
Western_reefer
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ourmanflint
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I removed mine today as I lost almost all of it to hair algae, which grew over most of it whilst I was away in Thailand for a month. Before I left though it was looking OK, I'm sure I could have kept it long term if I could have given it the daily/weekly care it needed. It certainly changed it's habits though from low quality T5's that I had originally to an 8x54w ATI unit. I felt it was just too much light for it and if algae caught in the branches it just grew all over it.
Gary Majchrzak
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thanks for sharing 
uhuru
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I wonder how much of it has to do with the health of the coral itself, and what you see as being taken over by algae is really just secondary to failing tissue defenses of the coral. I've had within the same gorg some branches that are unable to fight off algae and some branches that never have a problem. I cut off the branches that can't seem to fend off the algae and the rest of the gorg does fine. No difference in light exposure between the branches. Maybe its an inability to shed the tissue on that branch.
I'm glad I found this thread. One of my favorite corals. I got with a dead stem and some coraline covered branches. It has since regrown over the stem completley and It has retaken every branch. I just bought a second in hopes to revive it as well. The new one is big andbeing prepared for a new tank. Thinking about fragging it in a few months if it continues to grow well.
I'm at work but here's a quick overview. Tank is alittle over 3 years old I think it's been so long. It's 45 custom arcylic. 2' height and wide and 16 font to back. No rock walls and rouck mounds, tons of flow and the rock only touches the sand in 4 places and around a 3x3 inch max per footprint of each rock.
I feed tropic Marin - sea fan and gorg formula once to twice a day wih rods food, rotifers once in a while, and some of the bigger polpys can eat the smallest of mysis minced pieces.
In the pic the right hand side the gorg was dead and has completely recovered completely.
I feed tropic Marin - sea fan and gorg formula once to twice a day wih rods food, rotifers once in a while, and some of the bigger polpys can eat the smallest of mysis minced pieces.
In the pic the right hand side the gorg was dead and has completely recovered completely.
Had a blueberry gorg since April 24. It's health has been declining slowly. Polyp extension is not as prominent, and the blue color is not as vibrant. I don't expect it to last another 2 months unless some sort of miracle happens.
I feed cyclopeeze, kent zooplex, and DT's Live Phyto (nanno). I also dose Seachem Aquavitro Vibrance for iodine supplementation. Iodine is 100% necessary for these organisms, from what I understand.
I have a healthy natural supply of pods from my HOB refugium - believe me, I have tons. Not sure what else I can do. If I feed more, I get nitrate and algae issues, plus clogged pumps and stuff. It's hard to keep SPS and NPS organisms happy in the same tank.
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I feed cyclopeeze, kent zooplex, and DT's Live Phyto (nanno). I also dose Seachem Aquavitro Vibrance for iodine supplementation. Iodine is 100% necessary for these organisms, from what I understand.
I have a healthy natural supply of pods from my HOB refugium - believe me, I have tons. Not sure what else I can do. If I feed more, I get nitrate and algae issues, plus clogged pumps and stuff. It's hard to keep SPS and NPS organisms happy in the same tank.
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