Goniopora care

[Luke Schnabel]

So I left the LFS with a beautiful Goniopora thinking it would be like any other LPS coral. Little did I know eberyone says it's real hard to keep. But I'm up for a challenge. It's currently sitting in the middle of my tank in moderate flow, and under a Hydra 26 running at 40% and will ramp up to 60% in three weeks.

I know I'm going to buy "Reef Roids" to feed it. Do you guys know of anything else I should get to feed and or trace elements I should be adding.

Also would adding a plankton reactor to add plankton to the system help?

I've been doing all the reading and video watching I can but still wondering what exactly I should be adding and feeding.

 

[shred5]

Well not all goniopora are hard even though none are beginner corals mainly because they are so touchy. I have been keeping lots of them over the years. Goniopa got a bad name because back in the day they mainly imported goniopora stokesi which is pretty still impossible to keep. Some the red goniopora from ora is not to hard. I find red goniopora and most encrusting types to be easier with green being the hardest.

Mainly the key to most goniopora is feeding.. I like cyclopeese, bbs and oyster eggs.

The other thing is figuring out what type of flow and lighting they need. Each one is different too.

 

[Luke Schnabel]

I heard oyster eggs are also great to feed. What types do you guys suggest?

Does anyone have input on making a pankton reactor to add it to my tank??

 

[Tweaked]

I use the intelli feed feeder (same as the neptune apex feeder without the need for the controller) and fill it with gonipower, zoo and phyto foods etc. It feeds twice a day into my return section ultimately feeding two displays and a frag tank. Been doing this for over a year with great results. Also dose acropower all night, and feel they should rename it to coralpower honestly. Its just amino acids.

 

[thewedge]

My goni was slowly wasting away until I switched from Reef Crystals to Tropic Marin. I read that they need Manganese and apparently some salts do not have enough. Good luck. My lfs had told me they were not hard to keep. Little did I know. I also feed Reef Roids occasionally and it is very much on the rebound now.

 

[Webmanny]

From the mineral and trace elements side, I found that mine started doing much better when I started dosing Reef Trace and Reef Plus. I guess there are some of those trace elements that are needed that most salts don't have.

From the food side, I use Coral Frenzy. I feed them once or twice a week and they love it.

Good luck.

 

[benjc]

I don't feed mine anything and it has grown significantly over the past year. That said, I found when I first got it, that it was very particular about where in the tank it wanted to be placed. It seemed very sensitive to the "right" amount of flow. It took 3 or 4 tries to find a spot it would be happy. Now it grows like a beast and stings/kills nearby montipora, birdsnest, and zoas.