Breathtaking Red Goni Balls
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OrionN
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You should read up of Goniopora. There are a variety of species. Some are much more amendable to growing in our tank than other.
OrionN
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Thanks
RainbowReefer
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I was lucky enough to see ORA in person and it is breathtaking, They have a tank which basically looks like a sheet of red Goni.
organism
code monkey
I dunno if proven is the right word, more like it hasn't worked for you which is no fun. Works great for me though, I've got a pastel pink one with yellow tentacles that's going on 3 years now. Started off as a tiny frag now it's about a baseball. Like someone said before though man can they sting! It'll reach out and touch stuff that gets too close.
OrionN
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I don't see why this would be true. If your Goniopora grow well, and if there is no change in your tank, I don't see why it would not continue to grow. Maybe if you can post a picture so we can ID it species. Requirement of different Goniopora species are different. Some will do well in tank while other need supplemental feeding of correct type food.
Reeferz412
Coral Hoarder
rt67ghy
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Those are some amazing gonis; love the diversity, colours and the PE.
rt67ghy
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I have had a metallic green G. stokesi and a purple G. stokesi for 3 months now. They are both in the same tank maybe 10" from each other. While the green one is doing well with good PE especially after feeding, the purple one is receding with little or no PE. Only recently I learnt that they are stokesi sp and are probably one of the hardest gonis to keep alive. I tried feeding goniopower every day and sometimes zooplankton and coral frenzy but get no feeding response from the purple although the green one shows a response each time. Today I tried feeding shrimp eggs and although it was mostly reddish coloured water from the eggs I got a great response from the green goni (better than for any other food) and even saw a decent response from the purple after a long time, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Julian Sprung has written some great articles on how to succeed with gonis and he recommends feeding different types of food as opposed to feeding one food all the time and I think this may be a major reason some of us fail with gonis. Another suggestion is to dose iron and manganese to help stop and reverse the slow wasting disease we see with g. stokesi.
I started dosing chelated iron today and will see if it helps. I'll continue feeding shrimp eggs every day also and will post pics after I fix my camera.
Here's the link to the article if anyone is interested:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/12/inverts
Julian Sprung has written some great articles on how to succeed with gonis and he recommends feeding different types of food as opposed to feeding one food all the time and I think this may be a major reason some of us fail with gonis. Another suggestion is to dose iron and manganese to help stop and reverse the slow wasting disease we see with g. stokesi.
I started dosing chelated iron today and will see if it helps. I'll continue feeding shrimp eggs every day also and will post pics after I fix my camera.
Here's the link to the article if anyone is interested:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/12/inverts
Reeferz412
Coral Hoarder
Thanks, this was two shipments of gonis and alveoporas at my work. It was beautiful to see so many in one tank.
