goniopora care?

[Nina51]

guy called me, he was tearing his tank down, wanted to get rid of this, gave it away. it's about fist-size. i have it in my 29g hqi biocube. for now, it's on the sand bed while i acclimate it to the intense lighting.

i know these should be target fed. how often?

everything i've read says they are hard to keep but i'd like to give it a try. if i hadn't taken it, he was gonna pitch it. :headwalls:

here is a short video.

 

[johnike]

Nina, mine seem to like medium/high light and flow.
I don't feed them anything except the scraps of Rods food they get when feeding the rest of the tank.

 

[spieszak]

I've heard good things from a friend about the new goni-power food or whatever its called... I think its from TLF. He also recommends high alk. He's doing well with them. He's also fragging and selling a lot, and he has a theory that that helps too.
Its all second hand info, but I figure it can't hurt to pass it along.

 

[Bigcefa]

If you want to feed it, my recommendation is to try reef-roids it was originally made for gonis

 

[igarc009]

Are these really that hard to keep?

 

[spieszak]

Are these really that hard to keep?

The people who have success with them seem to not think so, everyone else seems to think they are, and there seem to be a lot more of the latter. They are definitely not newbie recommended, and the size of them makes me weary of one dieing off in a less than 'large' tank, but if you were willing to watch/pull/QT if it starts to look like trouble, no one can fault you for trying.

Good luck with yours Nina, I hope you get to be one of those people that has success with it and then looks around at everyone else saying "what do you mean these are hard to keep"?

 

[Nina51]

thanks, everybody. i do hope it stays healthy, it sure is a purty thing!

 

[albano]

Are these really that hard to keep?

Many say that the aqua cultured are the only way to go... Wild caught have very poor survival rates

 

[Nina51]

the guy i got it from said he'd had it for about 6 months.

 

[Reefer54]

Their typical lifespan in our tanks due to the number of people buying them who shouldnt tends to be less than 1 year. the larger the colony the better theoretically. Unless you keep an "sps clean" tank, you shouldnt have to target feed often....I would say 2x per week, and see how it responds.

 

[ViktorVaughn]

Mine really loves a lot of flow, the more it gets, the bigger it seems to extend. I have it halfway to two-thirds if the way up my tank so it gets high light as well. It will also catch mysis shrimp and eat those, pretty cool to watch. One of the finger like tentacles grabs it and than shoves it down the polyps mouth.

 

[Nina51]

i usually take up to a couple of weeks to acclimate a new coral to the MH lighting. is that overkill? right now, i have 3 layers of nylon screen over its end of the tank. i plan to take one layer off every few days and then take another week or so to move the coral gradually closer to the top.

 

[Gagonzalez]

I have an Alveopora in my tank that was the first coral I got (by accident). I have had it for over a year now and it's grown from a 1" tiny frag to a 6" size ball that has just recently (last 2 months) started to develop 2 new growths out of it (approx 1/2" and 3/4" lumps). I have a JBJ 28g Nano with 105w CF Bulbs and have spot fed it twice a week with Kent Marine Phytoplex with great results. From what I hear, Alveopora are harder than goni's to keep but are similar in husbandry.