Photosynthetic Gorgonian

[MesmatePipe]

I've been reading about gorgonians and it says some are hermatypic and some are ahermatypic. But thismwas really vague and considering all the good advice I have gotten on this forum I figured this would be a good start. There are some gorgonians I have looked into, I'm not getting my hopes up or anything but I just want to know which of these species a NPS and which are not (I'm assuming that all of these are NPS but it never hurts to check),
Muriceopsis flavida
Diodogorgia nodulifera
Eunicea* sp.
Pseudopterogorgia sp.
Pterogorgia citrina
If these are all NPS can you tell me one that isn't?
Thanks in advance
MmP

 

[noy]

I've been reading about gorgonians and it says some are hermatypic and some are ahermatypic. But thismwas really vague and considering all the good advice I have gotten on this forum I figured this would be a good start. There are some gorgonians I have looked into, I'm not getting my hopes up or anything but I just want to know which of these species a NPS and which are not (I'm assuming that all of these are NPS but it never hurts to check),
Muriceopsis flavida
Diodogorgia nodulifera
Eunicea* sp.
Pseudopterogorgia sp.
Pterogorgia citrina
If these are all NPS can you tell me one that isn't?
Thanks in advance
MmP

I actually keep a database of gorgs - been doing a lot of research for my gorg tank. I didn't keep a detailed reference to particular sources but a lot are from scholarly publications.

Muriceopsis flavida - photosynthetic
Diodogorgia - definitely NPS
Eunicea - there are 32 species in here - but the most common one succinea is photosynthetic but given my own experience about how readily it takes food from the water column - could probably use with a bit of supplementary feeding.
Pseudopterogorgia - 21 species - the popular one - the purple frilly - Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae is probably photo-syn. I had one of these for over 1 year - never fed it (directly anyways) - it was thriving but then just mysteriously died (tissue fell off) in a week
Pterogorgia citrine - photosynthetic

 

[MesmatePipe]

Thanks for the info

 

[calk me Q]

I actually keep a database of gorgs - been doing a lot of research for my gorg tank. I didn't keep a detailed reference to particular sources but a lot are from scholarly publications.

Muriceopsis flavida - photosynthetic
Diodogorgia - definitely NPS
Eunicea - there are 32 species in here - but the most common one succinea is photosynthetic but given my own experience about how readily it takes food from the water column - could probably use with a bit of supplementary feeding.
Pseudopterogorgia - 21 species - the popular one - the purple frilly - Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae is probably photo-syn. I had one of these for over 1 year - never fed it (directly anyways) - it was thriving but then just mysteriously died (tissue fell off) in a week
Pterogorgia citrine - photosynthetic

Hi Could u share your database wit me ? Would be really appreciated.

 

[MesmatePipe]

Yeah I could definitely use that too

 

[noy]

have to organize it - my "database" is a series of subdirectories organized into folders per genus and species with pics for ID purposes and articles cut and pasted into a central word doc for each genus and species.

I'll definitely share it at some point.