Goniopora and Alveopora Show-Off Thread

[Tennyson]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12480690#post12480690 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Racing1
Here's mine after a few months in the tank...

Nice pic. It seems that besides the green gonis, these seem to be the second most common. I see them often in the lfs around here. How much are these purple tipped ones?

Abereefur, I have never seen such a small goni! :eek1:

Its so small, my fish could swallow it whole. How long have you had it, do you ever face the problem of any critters bothering it? Is that a pic with its tentacles fully extended?

Awesome pics, and great variety.

 

[abereefur]

no not full extension. its a whopping 1cm with extension. no critters have ever bothered it because i have never put it in a position for that . first thing i did when i saw it was isolate it. right now it's in the fuge with only hermits and snails. so far nothing has bothered it.

 

[jadeguppy]

Awesome bud picture. I can't wait until mine does that. Watch out for amipods eating it at night in the fuge. With no preditors and a booming population I ran into that problem when I had my full grown stokie (sp?) and some zoa in the fuge. They think goniopora taste great!

 

[Tennyson]

That was a bud? I thought you bought it like that, so does the mother colony just spread them out in the tank and let those start their own colonies like suncorals? Is this how they reproduce?

 

[abereefur]

umm, they form on the mother. like, an extra skeleton starts to grow. then, when the bud is developed enough to start catching its own food, it just drops off the mother

 

[G.SMITHII]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12462551#post12462551 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by uglyamericanV1
how can you tell the difference between the species....

if it has to do with the tentalces on the polyps (sharp vs blunted) i am so buying a neon green alveopora at lfs

its the fingers @ the tip of the tenticles, alevo.'s have 12, goni.'s have 24

 

[Fish_Freek]

Ricks... what type of lighting and flow do you run? A few years back i had a green goni and kept it for about four years, but than it suddenly died. Just tring to figure out exactly the requirements this coral needs before i try another one.

thanks

 

[ricks]

I run a Hammerhead on CL

(4) Iwaki 100 (3) on seaswirls and (1) return from my 1HP chiller.

(6) Tunze 6201 on a multicontroller.

As for lighting.

(6) 400 20K Radiums on HQI

(4) 160 VHO actinic

(4) 96 watt 10K 50-50


Lots of flow, lots of light and lots of fish food I feed my system very heavy.

Happy Reefing

 

[Tennyson]

Anyone else with pics?

 

[Alastair]

 

[jawsee]

hi,here a picture from one off my tank

 

[abereefur]

wow. that is RED. awesome goni.

 

[95accord]

here is my purple. longest tantale on him is about 4-6 inches or so. ben in the tank for about 5 months and going strong.

(can anybody ID the softy on the left?)

here is is maybe 5 mins after i moved the one on the left away....tentacles were getting too close to each other.
and already he's starting to expand again.

 

[bradleyj]

I picked up this beautiful peice 3 weeks ago. I hadn't ever seen this color before.

 

[ataylo13]

Here is a recent addition to my tank.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/btaylor66/MyReefTank/photo#5207123602767441058"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/btaylor66/SENrVASBbKI/AAAAAAAAC7w/3hsPT4d1wZY/s800/IMG_2307.ac.Red%20Goniopora.jpg" /></a>

 

[ataylo13]

BTW bradleyj that is a pretty dang sweet colony you've got there

 

[2thdeekay]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12669669#post12669669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ataylo13
Here is a recent addition to my tank.

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/btaylor66/MyReefTank/photo#5207123602767441058"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/btaylor66/SENrVASBbKI/AAAAAAAAC7w/3hsPT4d1wZY/s800/IMG_2307.ac.Red%20Goniopora.jpg" /></a>

Hey, that is identical to the smaller colony I have! Do you know where yours came from? Mine was actually 5 small frags (colonies) glued to a round rock. I was told it was tank propagated, and it has grown very fast.

 

[ataylo13]

No sure where it originally came from. It is my first goni so I am doing alot of research to make sure it survives.

 

[2thdeekay]

This goni seems much easier than a previous one. I'd never seen a tank raised goni frag before this one.

They said it was originally collected from a stony reef, not a lagoon, & called it a "red reef goni". I'd tend to believe them as it has relatively short polyps, even after it's grown bigger, and it seems to be thriving with (in spite of) higher flow/light.

I have it in the corner of a 20 gal "frag tank" with a 250W DE 20K bulb (reflector is 12" above water), and 1500 g/hr flo. Am pleasantly surprised it's growing fast. I do feed alot.

 

[ataylo13]

how does it grow? does the coral just get bigger in diameter or does it grow to neighboring rocks?