If I may: for yellow diodogorgia - if you wish - you may try move it farther and upflow from palithoa and zoas (just in case), check if the flow slightly bents tentacles, bast red cyano or any other accumulations from the surface, feed more, maybe even target feeding. Mine revived once after using possibly erithromicine based UltraLife Red Slime Remover. And on the middle branch on photo there is tissue recession, that skeleton is visible. I would cut this branch approximately 2 cm/ 1" below the like where the soft tissue starts. No additional treatment or disinfection. Photos of what may going on now inside this branch are here.
Blueberry Sea Fan
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havingfunin08
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I was told that they need a good bit of flow and to be in low light at bottom of tank. I assume this is true . I had one a while back and same thing happened to mine. There is a lfs that has a blueberry in one of his tanks and has been there for a couple weeks and it looks amazing. If he doesn't sell it I'll keep my eye on it and see how it does..
gwrulzmylife
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might be flow?
chibopelu13
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as long as you feed frozen cyclopeeze to your tank about 4x a week and keep constant quality water with adequate flow you should have little trouble keeping a Blueberry sea Fan. Almost every Sea Fan dies because it is underfed. Cyclopeeze are the trick to keeping a Sea Fan with minimal die off. My LFS has kept his Blueberry for years (selling frags only) because he feeds frozen Cyclopeeze (his excelent water quality doesn't hurt either)
mattgreene22
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Very old thread...very cool coral. Question for anyone who may have posted ages ago or has a blueberry now...
What fish do you keep with it? Which fish have you avoided? For instance, anyone have a dwarf angel in with a blueberry?
What fish do you keep with it? Which fish have you avoided? For instance, anyone have a dwarf angel in with a blueberry?
coralreefdoc
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Acalycigorgia is one of the more difficult Azoox corals to keep in captivity, even for the advanced NPS reefkeeper, and should ONLY be attempted/collected for those with a legitimate case at the aforementioned title !
slapshot
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+1 I have a lot of experience with NPS corals and kept many different animals for a long time. I have kept both a dendronepthya and scleronephthya for well over a year. I also have many contacts in the real NPS world. I'm talking people whose tanks get fed hourly with live phyto and living pods of all kinds and NO ONE, let me emphasize that again, NO ONE has been able to keep one alive for longer than a few months. Save your money and buy something photosynthetic!
SantaMonica
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Some dedicated diver should really take an evening and observe the natural feedings of the blueberry.
I've done several hundred dives in Indonesia and SE Asia, where I've always seen them imported form, and never ever seen one. In 'Soft Corals and Sea Fans' it lists them as being deep water species. I wonder if the amount of light we have in aquariums is too much...?
SantaMonica
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That would seem to cause instant death, instead of the 1 or 2 month slowly dying that usually happens.
