Gorgonians

[nitratesucks]

One of my Gorgonians has stoped putting out his filters to feed. Anything i can do about that? These things are are hard to grow. Any ideas?

 

[fareforce]

one that I rescued lost all of his filters, but they grew back in a week or two.

 

[nitratesucks]

Its been like a month now and some of the branches are starting to die off. I think its a goner. Any other ideas!

 

[Shoreliner11]

It would help to know what kind of gorgonian it is. What color is it? Do you remember what color the polyps were? The odds are it was non-photosynthetic and its on its way out. Good luck
Aaron

 

[nitratesucks]

Its a yellow Gorgonian with white polyps. latin name (Gorgonia sp).

 

[keckles]

It is difficult to assign any specific requirements, as I highly doubt it was identified properly. (Not degrading you or the identifier) These have had poor survival records in the past, it seems bright lighting and strong water movement is the key with photosynthetic species. The key with nonphotosynthetic species will obviously be feeding plakton and providing vigorous water movement. These guys can be difficult.

Good luck

 

[nitratesucks]

I think these are the nonphotosynthetic type. The red one i got seems to like zooplankton. But he also doen't seem to want to grow. I got them like 1 year ago and there the same size still.

 

[ctopal]

My yellow gorgonian is going through the same problem. Started to decay from the bottom up and no more feelers. I broke off the dying parts and placed frags in different areas of the tank and am hoping for the best.

 

[DJ88©]

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[HippieSmell]

Is it one of these?

This is a photo from my old tank, and it's still doing well although the polyps aren't extended as often since upgrading skimmers. I accredit its success to my homemade fish food, which it eats. It is non-photo, so you can put it in the shade if you want. Just be sure that you feed it and it gets some decent random flow.

 

[nitratesucks]

Yup it looks like that one. I would feed if the polyps would come out.

 

[HippieSmell]

I would say to move it to different spots every week until the polyps extend. Or, try feeding different foods. Get some raw, fresh seafood and blend it up with some prepared foods. That might help, plus your fish will go bananas.

 

[Amphiprion]

That one is one of the Diodogorgia species, probably nodulifera. They will need plenty of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton (associated with detritus) to do well in the long term.

 

[Gabi480]

I have keptt the one in the picture for over a year now. The key have been very low light and alot i mean a whole lot of water flow. It's a nocturnal feeder and I guess it mostly flow and really low light. I have had a few different ones and this one is the only one that has lived.

 

[ctopal]

Mine's like that too, I guess I'll move some of my frags to the other tank with just a fish only fluorescent light and try target feeding it along with my sun polyps.

 

[nitratesucks]

OK im going to try everything we talked about. Do you think moveing him to my sump were theres more heavy flow but no lights would help? Or maybe move him to my refug that im in the middle of building. Im going to take a pic of him today if i can figure out how to post it. Just to make shure we have the right identity. Thanks for all your help.

 

[Lebowski_]

Was it exposed to air?

 

[nitratesucks]

Yes but very very briefly. Like 1 or 2 seconds. Do you think that might have something to do with it. It had some alge on it from me playing aroud im my tank so i just picked off the alge. But i also clean my red one the same way and its still feeding.

 

[rustybucket145]

Looks like you have the one in my avatar. I have had mine for almost two years. I feed homebrew phyto and baby brine to it. It grows slow but it does grow. I think high, indirect flow is the key and a refugium with plenty of continuous live planktonic foods.