I plan on buying myself my first live coral and its going to goniopora flower(exactly like urs). Its already 4'' old. Do you recommend for me to have it mounted onto a live rock or is it okay on sand? I was thinking a big LR if It can't live in the sand. I have a 75g. What all medicine and food do u recommend me to have for it? I've done some research of it already, I know you can never get enough research on corals. So much to learn.
Please if u can reply back. Id appreciate it a lot.
Ok! So as far as this goes. If this is your first coral I don't recommend it. Its very hard to take care of long term and is very fragile. BUT, if your dedicated on keeping it, their very temperamental. So they like current, medium current, lots of light they LOVE lighting and they love to be fead each polyp individually. Now,I suggest having it in the sand, OR on a piece of rock that is like a shelf because the polyps are extremely delicate and any trauma will ensue brown
@saflip969 Jelly, and will quickly kill the rest of it. They are night feeders so at night time you will see the polyps are fully extended. When you feed them gently release a combination of crushed tiny bits of cleaned frozen foods from the fish store like brine shrimp, and fish flakes. I use "New Life Spectrum Optimum" You can get this at your local fish store its got a blue lid and its gold writing on it. My Goniopora likes these flakes. NOW make sure your calcium is high, like 480>>>
@saflip969 Not to back track but, having the coral away from other corals is huge too. This Goni inflated to 4 times its size when I got it home and healthy, SO make sure its not near any jagged edges. Ok so back to parameters calcium high, Goni hates nitrates and phosphates keep those at zero. THE best Goni to take care of is the yellow, those are the easiest and less temperamental. If you want my advice on the easiest coral to take care of as a first live buy, Tube anemone, or any number of
@saflip969 Zoanthids. I hope this helped.. Please keep in contact I would love to help you with your build process, as your 75 G must have tons of room for a proper spot for the Goni. Remember the Goni is ok in sand, my main stress is that its away from anything that could hit it, or it could scrape itself on. Also don't let any salt creep. (the salt that builds up outside the tank) fall into/onto the Goni, it will Burn it.
@nakmin123 I feed mine once a week target feeding. What I do is I ground up the already ground up frozen shrimp. But I melt it into a container, then I poor it into a strainer and wash it with tank water 2 times. Then I put some tank water into a container and I put the pieces of ground up shrimp into the container and then suck it up with a turkey baster and sometimes a syringe. And then I target feed as many polyps as I can gently land the pulp onto.
Sunflower coral looks like its setteled in well. Never seen those at the lfs's here never seen one period. Looks good keep it up and it will pay off in the long run I think I'm starting to get past all the little problems in mine and my system is finally starting to mature. Keep it up man and u will enjoy it more and more every day
I plan on buying myself my first live coral and its going to goniopora flower(exactly like urs). Its already 4'' old. Do you recommend for me to have it mounted onto a live rock or is it okay on sand? I was thinking a big LR if It can't live in the sand. I have a 75g. What all medicine and food do u recommend me to have for it? I've done some research of it already, I know you can never get enough research on corals. So much to learn.
Please if u can reply back. Id appreciate it a lot.
saflip969 1 week ago
@saflip969 Hey!!
Ok! So as far as this goes. If this is your first coral I don't recommend it. Its very hard to take care of long term and is very fragile. BUT, if your dedicated on keeping it, their very temperamental. So they like current, medium current, lots of light they LOVE lighting and they love to be fead each polyp individually. Now,I suggest having it in the sand, OR on a piece of rock that is like a shelf because the polyps are extremely delicate and any trauma will ensue brown
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@saflip969 Jelly, and will quickly kill the rest of it. They are night feeders so at night time you will see the polyps are fully extended. When you feed them gently release a combination of crushed tiny bits of cleaned frozen foods from the fish store like brine shrimp, and fish flakes. I use "New Life Spectrum Optimum" You can get this at your local fish store its got a blue lid and its gold writing on it. My Goniopora likes these flakes. NOW make sure your calcium is high, like 480>>>
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@saflip969 Not to back track but, having the coral away from other corals is huge too. This Goni inflated to 4 times its size when I got it home and healthy, SO make sure its not near any jagged edges. Ok so back to parameters calcium high, Goni hates nitrates and phosphates keep those at zero. THE best Goni to take care of is the yellow, those are the easiest and less temperamental. If you want my advice on the easiest coral to take care of as a first live buy, Tube anemone, or any number of
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@saflip969 Zoanthids. I hope this helped.. Please keep in contact I would love to help you with your build process, as your 75 G must have tons of room for a proper spot for the Goni. Remember the Goni is ok in sand, my main stress is that its away from anything that could hit it, or it could scrape itself on. Also don't let any salt creep. (the salt that builds up outside the tank) fall into/onto the Goni, it will Burn it.
Thanks for your Questions
Kevin Kavanagh
Ottawa Ontario Canada
50CalPaintballSniper 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
It's not uncommon and it will feed at anytime. What do you feed yours and how often?
nakmin123 4 weeks ago
@nakmin123 I feed mine once a week target feeding. What I do is I ground up the already ground up frozen shrimp. But I melt it into a container, then I poor it into a strainer and wash it with tank water 2 times. Then I put some tank water into a container and I put the pieces of ground up shrimp into the container and then suck it up with a turkey baster and sometimes a syringe. And then I target feed as many polyps as I can gently land the pulp onto.
What about you?
50CalPaintballSniper 4 weeks ago
There was a ":)" face I. The end of my last comment it it must have been deleted. :)
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Sunflower coral looks like its setteled in well. Never seen those at the lfs's here never seen one period. Looks good keep it up and it will pay off in the long run I think I'm starting to get past all the little problems in mine and my system is finally starting to mature. Keep it up man and u will enjoy it more and more every day
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