I recently purchased this wonderful looking green goniopora at a LFS, got home, and did a little research. There arose a common theme in my online reading - this thing is going to die, within a year, period. So I started doing quite a bit more research. I've read articles and posts by Eric Borneman, and other articles about ways to keep this and various other difficult to keep corals (including azooxanthellates like sun corals and sea pens). I'm experimenting with an algae scrubber, and have my skimmer off. My readings are all great - zero ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, and phosphate; Ca at 520, Alk 9.6, pH 8.5, s.g. 1.025, 77F. So it seems the scrubber is keeping things running well. I have a 55g refugium with chaeto and a 4" sand bed, a remote deep sand bed, and 150lbs of live rock plus another 3-5" of sand in my 180g display tank. I'm using two 400w 20,000K XM MH lights. Tank has been running since Feb 18, so it's fairly new.
Anyway, I bought the thing, and I'd like to keep it alive. Someone pointed out an article I read was 12 years old, so what kind of recent experiences do people have with them? Are people using continuous feeders, raising plankton, going skimmerless, etc?
Anyway, I bought the thing, and I'd like to keep it alive. Someone pointed out an article I read was 12 years old, so what kind of recent experiences do people have with them? Are people using continuous feeders, raising plankton, going skimmerless, etc?
