Goniopora: advice, care and show-off!

[noy]

really nice stuff! keep the pics coming!

 

[ps1434]

Here is a picture of my red ORA and some frags. I have had it for 5 years and never feed it.

http://s663.photobucket.com/user/ps1434/media/CAM00160.jpg.html

 

[ps1434]

Here is a picture of my red ORA and some frags. I have had it for 5 years and never feed it.

 

[Nina51]

i'll play! guy called me, he was tearing down his tank and said if i didn't take this, he'd just pitch it. i couldn't believe he would toss something so beautiful! i have it under MH lights, a couple of inches off the sand bed, low/medium flow. seems to like that spot.
<a href="http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Ninapearl/media/goniopora1_zps03801637.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Ninapearl/goniopora1_zps03801637.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo goniopora1_zps03801637.jpg"/></a>

those red ones are to die for!!

 

[Ralph ATL]

I've had this ORA Red for a couple of years now. I feed it a few times a month with Nutramar Ova (when I feed my fish that) & Sustainable Aquatics Pellets 0.5 mm size

 

[Nina51]

got a jar of goniopower. goni seems to love it as do the duncans and plate coral. pic was taken about 10 minutes after i fed.

<a href="http://s6.photobucket.com/user/Ninapearl/media/gonifed_zps89cb6515.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/Ninapearl/gonifed_zps89cb6515.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo gonifed_zps89cb6515.jpg"/></a>

 

[Ralph ATL]

they love that!

 

[noy]

nina - any chance you can do up video of the feeding so we can see a response.

I feed all kinds of stuff and never really get an affirmative feeding response.

mysterybox - great stuff on keeping a gonio going for a few years! Mine is 2 years going.

All around great photos from everyone!

 

[Nina51]

i can try to get a video but my internet speed is slow so it may take hours to download to photobucket. one of the few disadvantages of living in the farthest corner of the boonies.

 

[johnike]

I picked this one up Friday.

 

[Ralph ATL]

nice catch! pretty big already!

 

[Debora]

That's my goniopora:

Small but always open

 

[noy]

nice - with the purple

 

[Ralph ATL]

That's awesome!

 

[albano]

That's my goniopora:

Small but always open

They usually are... Until they're not... and then they're done!

 

[Peter Eichler]

Both grown from small frags...





This one is starting to take over my tank the middle part of my tank, it's growing like made and started out as a softball and is now approaching basketball size










This one has been growing slowly but surely for a while now...



I have a few other colors/species in other tanks and will try to get some shots soon, Feeding consists of feeding the fish a lot of a flake food once a day

 

[noy]

very nice collection. I noticed you have one right beside a SPS (looks almost like a red planet). Do you have problems with the proximity?

 

[Peter Eichler]

very nice collection. I noticed you have one right beside a SPS (looks almost like a red planet). Do you have problems with the proximity?

Not yet... It is killing off a portin of a cyphastrea colony and duking it out with the sunset monti, the green efflo and a couple other acroporids will be next, and then it's time for a new home most likely since it's not fitting anywhere else in my tank.

 

[Ssteve]

Here's mine.. This is taken 20min after acclimation. So far so good.

 

[Ralph ATL]

WOW, some great pics & colonies lately!