Gorgonian ID

[Kbreef]

Hi RC members, anyone have an idea what type of gorgonian this is ?

Thanks in advance...

Looking for info on care and feeding ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30638829@N07/3871691026/

 

[Drock169]

Just guessing, Plexaura homomalia. Do you notice is the polyps are out during your photoperiod.

 

[Kbreef]

Hi I have noticed the polyps come out in the day but only briefly. They seem to remain out for an extended period of time at night.

 

[Elysia]

It is really hard to tell with the gorg back lit like that. Can you get a better photo?

 

[Aquabacs]

If you have any closer pics it would help. It looks like a Purple Menella Sp. (Sea Rod/Whip)

Menella's are relatively hardy for non-photo gorgs. For feeding pick up some frozen rotifers and frozen cyclops (2x daily) You can target feed it by holding the block of frozen food close to the coral, let it defrost and the polyps will catch the food.

For dry food they have very good response to Fauna Marin Ultra Seafan, Ultra Clam, UltraminF (check out the Fauna Marin Section in the sponser section of the forum).


Mike

 

[uhuru]

I agree that looks like purple menella sp. I have a red with yellow polyp one that I have just started feeding with FM Ultra min F through an eheim automatic feeder, in addition to manual feeding by hand. I have been told that it likes Ultra SeaFan better which I have on order. I also have a NPS soft coral food mix that gets dosed regularly. I find that if it doesn't get fed every 2-3 hrs it starts to close up and it takes extra food to get it to open again. Good luck! I think this is a good one to start with as far as NPS gorgs go!

 

[williah]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15669818#post15669818 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Aquabacs
If you have any closer pics it would help. It looks like a Purple Menella Sp. (Sea Rod/Whip)

Menella's are relatively hardy for non-photo gorgs. For feeding pick up some frozen rotifers and frozen cyclops (2x daily) You can target feed it by holding the block of frozen food close to the coral, let it defrost and the polyps will catch the food.

For dry food they have very good response to Fauna Marin Ultra Seafan, Ultra Clam, UltraminF (check out the Fauna Marin Section in the sponser section of the forum).


Mike

Mike,what's your feeding schedule with Fauna Marin? Daily?

 

[Aquabacs]

williah


Current schedule for my 24 gallon NPS tank is the following:

Daily
Using a fishmate auto feeder, feed dry into a feeding ring, 1/8 teaspoon of Ultra Seafan, 1/8 Ultra Clam, 1/8 Ultramin F in each compartment of the feeder. This is feed 4x a day, over a 2 hour period of time.

Daily 7am
FM UltraMin D .5ml
FM UltraMin S .5ml

Daily
Reef Nutrition ArticPods 1ml at 6:30am and 1ml 6pm dosed manually
Reef Nutrition PhytoFeast .5ml at 7am dosed manually
Reef Nutrition Shellfish Diet .5ml at 7pm dosed manually

Daily at 6pm
1 block of frozen mysis shrimp

Daily at 8pm
1 block of frozen cyclops

Every other day
Dendros, Balanos, Sun corals and Rhizos are feed directly mysis & silversides (they are also feed an occasional pavulus cardinal when the fish are not careful where they are swimming)

This does not include the rest of the FM trace elements, UltraBak, Bio, etc that is used daily.

I will also include that since I do feed heavy daily that I am currently changing atleast 50% of the water weekly. There are times I will replace 100% of the water over a 7 day period. The gorgs do not like large water changes and will close for a day or so if too much water is changed at one time.

Mike

 

[Kbreef]

Hey RC members I seem to be having success feeding this purple gorgonian cyclopeze. It seems happy here is a recent picture.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30638829@N07/3924168005/

 

[uhuru]

Looks good! Keep it up!