ora goniopora

[SPotter]

This is mine 'extended'. color isn't all that great - still trying to work around the MH & Actinics with the camera. Anywho, this is what it has looked like all this time. It is sitting near the top in higher flow. There is no difference between now and how it looked in lower flow. Is it possible this is not a Gomnio?

I think it looks fine! Do you target feed it?


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[Gary Majchrzak]

first shot taken without flash

same coral with flash

wait a minute... what are those white balls on the top left tentacle?
I never noticed them before............

Acrospheres

jeffeg- this is what your Goni is developing due to proximity of that hammer coral

 

[mandarin chick]

I think it looks fine! Do you target feed it?


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No target feeding, but i feed the fish from the bottom through a lift tube. since the food goes up and around instead of down and out the overflow, it catches a lot of food on its own. That being said - I was told it was photosynthetic and didn't need to be fed. I noticed by accident that it was happily eating cyclopese and ova when I fed the fish....

Anywho, the extension of polyps is near non-existent compared to the other pictures. This is ok?

 

[SPotter]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. What kind of lighting do you have and what is lighting schedule?


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[rivoth]

I bought mine at the LFS and it's supposed to be an ORA Red Goniopora. I've had it about 9 months now and it continues to slowly grow. I tank feed it DT Oyster eggs, frozen Cyclops, Artemia and some phytoplankton. The flow rate is what I consider moderate with two opposing MP10's alternating the water flow direction every minute.

I also have a tiny green Goniopora frag from the same store that is growing well for the last 8 months.

 

[vegita51]

Would you recommend any other gonipora than the ora one? I saw a really nice rainbow goniopora and I am really interested but hear that they slowly recede unless have been tank raised and proven. Is this right?

 

[shred5]

Ora reds are easier. They are tank raised for sure and are on thier website.
http://www.orafarm.com/products/hardcoral/other/red-goniopora.html

The green I do not beleive are tank raised! I beleive they come from Marshall Island Mariculture Farm I believe and are on their site too:
http://www.orafarm.com/products/hardcoral/mimf/goniopora.html

Also would be why there is such a difference in price.

Dave Polzin

 

[BadSquishy]

I'll second that short tentacle red - the most robust
long tentacle red - in a close second.

I like the short reds - they are a mean coral - the sweepers on the short red are awesome - they drive off everything. Even the palys are driven off.

 

[j.p. harrington]

i just seem someone say that they were thinking about trying a green in SPS tank.
i think this is a very bad idea
i probably have the biggest GREEN GONI in a at home aquarium and i can only contribute my success to major major feeding

 

[180+55reef]

i just seem someone say that they were thinking about trying a green in SPS tank.
i think this is a very bad idea
i probably have the biggest GREEN GONI in a at home aquarium and i can only contribute my success to major major feeding

so your convinced they want less than pristine water?

then you would advice against vodka dosing?

 

[mandarin chick]

so your convinced they want less than pristine water?

then you would advice against vodka dosing?

I would think vodka dosing would be a good thing due to the build up of bacterioplankton.... but I am curious as to what "major feeding' is. Mine (red one) seems to love it when I swarm the tank with cyclopese....

 

[180+55reef]

ORA Goni

ORA Goni

I recently purchased two from an online vendor. The larger of the two is pictured below. I was looking for large red gonis. The description from the vender said both would open to 5 inches. Since neither of them open that large (I think the skeletal size doesnt support that), I was wondering if I got the short tentacle version that is described in this thread.

The vender was nice enought to ask this question to ORA , who stated that there is only 1 type of red goni

 

[tektite]

I love my ORA red goni, had it since Jan. Always out and extended:

 

[180+55reef]

how big is the skeleton

 

[tektite]

Skeleton's a bit over 2" wide. It expands to 8-9" in the daytime.

 

[mandarin chick]

I recently purchased two from an online vendor. The larger of the two is pictured below. I was looking for large red gonis. The description from the vender said both would open to 5 inches. Since neither of them open that large (I think the skeletal size doesnt support that), I was wondering if I got the short tentacle version that is described in this thread.

The vender was nice enought to ask this question to ORA , who stated that there is only 1 type of red goni

Yours looks like mine - not as stretchy as the others I see pictured, but he eats and has grown. I have resigned myself to think of him as a "little gomni" much like a 'little person'. Would love to get a hold of one of the stretchy critters....

 

[aandfsoccr04]

Quite possibly my favorite coral in my tank:
ORA red goni

 

[droth335]

My wife won an ORA red goni at MACNA last month and absolutely loves it (and I won the deresa clam you can see just part of the mantle in lower right). We also have a couple other non-ORA red (short polyp) and a non-ORA green below that we've had for about 9 months.

red ORA:

Green (non-ORA)

 

[sqwat]

i have one i brought back from the dead now its droping babies at one per month i love it.def one of my fav

 

[tektite]

Do you have pictures of the babies?