please help me identify these guys.

[dannieboiz]

I've had these guys for so long that I've forgotten which is what. I'm rebuilding my log book again.

and this one is new.

 

[Elite]

some ugly corals :lol: ....











j/k man... I thought you bought some new fish again

 

[nashorn]

bottom one looks like a puple goniopora. Nice, I'm trying to keep a red,yellow and orange one myself. most will die in a year.

 

[dannieboiz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9989515#post9989515 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nashorn
bottom one looks like a puple goniopora. Nice, I'm trying to keep a red,yellow and orange one myself. most will die in a year.

Is that the case for everyone?

I knew it was something like that but I couldn't get the spelling right. Thanks

Also that was a bad camera. The actual color is like this one here.

 

[Sparkss]

the general consensus on the flower pot (goniopora) corals is that they require target feeding of a specific size. Try reading up in the LPS forum and also check out goniopora.org for some good husbandry info.

 

[650-IS350]

Read around to direct feed Live phyto.. I turn off all pumps when I do this...

 

[GreshamH]

You people and your target feeding :lol:

Had mine wild Tongan for over a year now and I have no time to squirt food into each mouth so I dose the tank. Almost everything in mine eats in the similiar micron range so I just squirt and go :lol:

Matt has had a colony for many years now. I've had a frag in another tank for about a year and a half, looks great.

Saying they all do bad is just wrong. Some species fair far better then others.

 

[650-IS350]

I'm anal like that.... .:lol:

But do agree about the " they all do bad is wrong "

dang I think that bottle of tigerpods I got from you during the BA-CFM already got wiped out by the mandarin and wrasse..... I put 1/2 bottle into maintank and 1/2 in the sump/refugerum

Charles.V.
DELSOL650

 

[tacocat]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9991819#post9991819 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GreshamH
You people and your target feeding :lol:

Had mine wild Tongan for over a year now and I have no time to squirt food into each mouth so I dose the tank. Almost everything in mine eats in the similiar micron range so I just squirt and go :lol:

Matt has had a colony for many years now. I've had a frag in another tank for about a year and a half, looks great.

Saying they all do bad is just wrong. Some species fair far better then others.

Agreed. Aquarium food science has really come a long way. The old rules of thumb were based around what was available at the time. I wonder if can start keeping basket stars?

 

[juaninsac]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9993874#post9993874 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tacocat
Agreed. Aquarium food science has really come a long way. The old rules of thumb were based around what was available at the time. I wonder if can start keeping basket stars?

It's feasible. Can't believe I'm mentioning this, as it's still a really bad idea to try, but I know someone who has kept one for a long time.

You know Rob Toonen? He kept one at UCD when I worked there. Regrew an arm it lost during shipping. Attached itself to a spraybar; he fed it phyto and rotifers as well as lots and lots of invertebrate larvae. Rob got his PhD by studying larval inverts, so he had lots of cultures going on. The tank also had a huge refugium and deep sand bed, undoubtedly with lots of worms and such reproducing.

In short, unless you're REALLY determined and have access to a variety of different sized live foods, probably not a good idea.