Yes, but maybe not as well as a lawnmower, he loves MEAT. He would pick at Gha every now and then but not graze on it constantly.
In my experience Starrys look way cooler but get bigger and more aggressive.
Currently my most aggressive fish are a royal gramma and a sixline wrasse. You think a starry could hold its own?
For my vote, I think it would do fine. Mine is very friendly with my banggai. I think theyve both become incumbents though, 99% sure Benson had a hand in the death of the firefish I tried to add. Anyways, if you get a decent sized one it'll be able to hold its own.
My Starry is only put in place by my Foxface and occasionally the Tomini.
I know I sound like a broken record but even in a specialized tank these are hard to care for.Some polyps opening back up on the sea fan gorg. You can also see where the flesh is peeling, im pretty sure this flesh has been dead but didnt get enough flow to detach in the holding tank. I was honestly prepared to see it fully peel away since I thought the whole thing might have been dead since I dont really seeing any open polyps in the past month. The polyps have proved me wrong though. I highly discourage anyone from getting one of these unless you have a specialized tank with low to zero light. I will be moving it to the 8 gallon soon where I may not even mount a light and if I do I will stick this coral under an arch so that it hardly receives any. The light causes algae to grow on the flesh very fast even in high flow. I reget buying this coral but I will do my best to care for it.
That sounds good, ill look into lights like that. If you remember, what did you feed your nps? Right now I've got some powdered food, oyster feast and phytoplankton. Also would you recommend any nps that are easier, I've heard dendros, sun coral, and nepthithea are easier. Thats for your help on this by the way. If the specialized tank doesn't work out I'll try to find someone local with an nps tank to take this gorg off me.
The lps nps are pretty easy especially in a tank that is designed for them in mind. Nothing to bother them or steal food such as shrimp, crabs and fish. The lps under low light or no light will open more often and they will eat just about anything if its the right size, mysis, brine shrimp, some pellets. The stuff with small polyps are more difficult like most of the soft nps, sea fans and gorgs. These may need live feeds to get the polyps to fire things like live rotifers or small pelagic pods. Some will except a wide range of prepared feeds as well but a lot wont, It takes that swimming motion or the struggle of intended prey items trying to get away to actually cause the polyp to close and take in the food. Kind of like a venus flytrap some will accept a dead bug but most wont because the hairs on the "mouth" are not being triggered by motion. I have no absolute proof that they do or dont eat phyto my guess is they dont but it does feed the stuff they will eat so it cant hurt to add some.
I have seen the gorg polyps close around the powdered food I have before, but live foods are definitely a good thing to have.
More than likely if they are closing it is eating. Is that enough and is it keeping it after it closes? idk.
Also remember I said I did not or have not had great luck with soft nps corals. Maybe now that there are more prepared food available and a lot of places sell rotifers too it may be easier. I dont know how many rotifer cultures I crashed in my day or how many I had going at one time it was a lot though. I also used to breed clownfish so I needed rotifer for them as well. LPS nps I had great luck I had so many dendros and fragged more every few months for a couple years same with sun corals, I had no choice but to sell some.
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