Blue berry gorgonian care

[gorgoniansfever]

blueberry gorgonian advice

i can't find a lot of good care guys for this coral, i know it's not sps but dont know what other forum to ask in what are feeding requirements for this coral? how often and what to feed? do i need to have baby brine shrimp?

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Due to above blue berry gorgonian advice,I brought a bb gorgonian on 3,November 2025. I spot feed it ( phytochrom and Frozen baby brine shrimp ) twice a day.

Below photo is at 8, November 2025:

Below photo is at 19 , January 2026

Above photo : the coral's flesh grow on the base rock and there are some polyps are on the flesh.

Below photo : The left hand side of coral shows the flesh and polyps cover the rock.

Blow photo: The whole coral

 

[Jamie9]

Wow, that's a beauty! One day when I retire and am not traveling so much, I'd love to have some non-photosynthetics like this!

 

[twentyleagues]

Looks happy! Nice job.

 

[gorgoniansfever]

Below moive : Feeding bb gorgonian with baby brine shrimp

 

[jonvo324]

Wow that’s amazing to seeing! I’m curious, much flow do you have on it? Are the polyps always out?

 

[gorgoniansfever]

Wow that’s amazing to seeing! I’m curious, much flow do you have on it? Are the polyps always out?

I use a wave marker : Jecod DMP-20M(15W), only use 30% power and use intermittent switching mode(about on in10 seconds, off in 10 seconds).
It is non direct flow that hits the front glass and then reflects to the coral (below photo show the case)
The polyps are not always out, they do not open about a third of a day.
If the whole coral opens half amout of polyps , I feed them some crushed fish pellets. It will opens nearly all of the polyps in 30 mins, then I feed them baby brine shrimp.

 

[gorgoniansfever]

I use a wave marker : Jecod DMP-20M(15W), only use 30% power and use intermittent switching mode(about on in10 seconds, off in 10 seconds).
It is non direct flow that hits the front glass and then reflects to the coral (below photo show the case)
The polyps are not always out, they do not open about a third of a day.
If the whole coral opens half amout of polyps , I feed them some crushed fish pellets. It will opens nearly all of the polyps in 30 mins, then I feed them baby brine shrimp.

Above post has a mistake , I mean the polyps do not ALL open about a third of a day.

 

[jonvo324]

Would love to see a video of how your flow looks against the gorgonian! I wasn’t able to get my bb gorg to consistently open, even with high flow

 

[gorgoniansfever]

Would love to see a video of how your flow looks against the gorgonian! I wasn’t able to get my bb gorg to consistently open, even with high flow

Besides the factor of Water flow rate,
You feed your gorgonian more frequently that will make their polyps consistently open.

 

[gorgoniansfever]

Would love to see a video of how your flow looks against the gorgonian! I wasn’t able to get my bb gorg to consistently open, even with high flow

This video show the flow is gentle.

 

[gorgoniansfever]

This movie is very useful for feeding gorgonian

 

[resortez]

 

[gorgoniansfever]

https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/to...-care-and-culture/page/2/#findComment-4647861

Due to above link about experience in feeding blueberry gorgonian by cyclops, I use frozen cyclops vicinus feeding my bb gorgonian.
I think frozen cyclops' nutrients is better than frozen newly hatched brine shrimp.

In fact, the frozen cyclops vicinus looks very big to the naked eye.
But I found that my bb gorgonian's polyps can swallow the cyclops when I make the movie .

Below movie shows the two polyps swallowing :




Below images show the size of the cyclops and the newly hatched brine shrimp

 

[Damage12]

Well done, those are very difficult thrive.

 

[gorgoniansfever]

My new feeding plan ：

1) morning : use crushed fish pellets (the particles is small enough for small polyps).
Such feeding can make all polyps open resplendently.

2) afternoon : use frozen baby shrimp (the size is suitable for middle and big polyps)

3) evening : use frozen cyclops vicinus

(All above are target feeding and try to feed all polyps)



Below movie shows polyps swallowing baby brine shrimp :

 

[gorgoniansfever]

My new feeding plan ：

1) morning : use crushed fish pellets (the particles is small enough for small polyps).
Such feeding can make all polyps open resplendently.

2) afternoon : use frozen baby shrimp (the size is suitable for middle and big polyps)

3) evening : use frozen cyclops vicinus

(All above are target feeding and try to feed all polyps)



Below movie shows polyps swallowing baby brine shrimp :

Above post has a mistake , (not baby shrimp) is baby brine shrimp

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

Beautiful coral! Job well done!

 

[gorgoniansfever]

Below movie shows the polyps swallowing crushed fish pellets:

 

[Euphylliaphyle]

Below movie shows the polyps swallowing crushed fish pellets:

I love watching corals eat!

 

[gorgoniansfever]

I love watching corals eat!

One more for you : the polyps swallowing cyclops vicinus