John Kelly
Goniopora Aficionado
I have been seriously thinking about this article over the last few days.......since RK magazine is not a peer-reviewed journal, I'll post my thoughts here.
To be fair, Justin who wrote the article appears to have been working with goniopora fragments for some time. No telling how many have died; but obviously he has had some success with keeping them alive. It is good work. He has utilized the deep sand bed method/no skimmer method while dosing phytoplankton to the tank.
99.9% of the foods and feeding advancements, on the other hand, have come from 2 people. JenNKerry at www.reefcraze.com (using Liquid Life Marine Plankton. site published in April) and myself at www.goniopora.org (utilizing the "stew" of mashed cyclopeeze and a number of other foods. site published in July). Both of us commenced these experiments at the beginning of Feburary of this year (2005), both of us have made literally hundreds of posts about our methods here at ReefCentral, and both of us are proving the positive results that come from target feeding Goniopora. When Jen and Kerry posted a thread announcing their experiment, which I posted to also, it was met with so much controversy that the thread was closed. Now, ReefKeeping magazine (reefcentral) has an article about Goniopora Care and Propagation?
Credit needs to be given where credit is due. :thumbsup:
To be fair, Justin who wrote the article appears to have been working with goniopora fragments for some time. No telling how many have died; but obviously he has had some success with keeping them alive. It is good work. He has utilized the deep sand bed method/no skimmer method while dosing phytoplankton to the tank.
99.9% of the foods and feeding advancements, on the other hand, have come from 2 people. JenNKerry at www.reefcraze.com (using Liquid Life Marine Plankton. site published in April) and myself at www.goniopora.org (utilizing the "stew" of mashed cyclopeeze and a number of other foods. site published in July). Both of us commenced these experiments at the beginning of Feburary of this year (2005), both of us have made literally hundreds of posts about our methods here at ReefCentral, and both of us are proving the positive results that come from target feeding Goniopora. When Jen and Kerry posted a thread announcing their experiment, which I posted to also, it was met with so much controversy that the thread was closed. Now, ReefKeeping magazine (reefcentral) has an article about Goniopora Care and Propagation?
Credit needs to be given where credit is due. :thumbsup: