Question for the amazeballs goni experts..

[Reefing.with.Rich]

This is the 4th amazeballs Goni iv added to my system and they look great for the first month and then close up and I never see them again
I have 29 other gonis that are just fine
I have placed them in different flow and different intensity of lighting and they all end up the same way
Very confusing so figured I’d resort to asking the experts of r2r

First two pics was my latest one for the first month and the second pic has been the last month or so

 

[naterealbig]

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[radreef02]

I’m not a Goni expert so take this with a grain of salt but I’ve kept 5 different ones and they’re still alive. All of them looked like that a month in or so and they came back just by me changing it to lower flow and lower light for about a couple months and they come back. I’ve had a red Goni that half died and still came back.

They’re finicky but don’t like changes, I’m sure you’re dosing some manganese in this system with a lot of gonis ? If not I would maybe check what it’s at, water changes should bring most of it up but gonis love it

Hope it comes back, great piece

 

[tath34ever]

Had the same thing happen to me and found out that my chaeto in my sump was consuming manganese in my water. It’s something that all gonis need. So I started dosing chaetogrow for its trace minerals and also manganese and iron. Now my skeleton gonis are 90% extended

 

[nycfreshreef]

I am in the same boat (currently have 15 different gonis all of them are happy) but cannot keep amazeballs it’s the strangest thing. I am currently on my 3rd amazeballs frag and it’s now been closed for almost a month. They always look amazing the first month but then close completely. I have tried every different flow / lighting etc , just don’t understand it.

The last Goni frag I was able to bring it back by giving it up flow and feeding it every single day for a few weeks , it eventually extended to 50% or so but lost all its color … it had been overtaken by algae while closed and lose most of its flesh. And it eventually closed up again so I tossed it when getting a new Goni frag.

I wish someone who farms this finicky strain would see this thread and give us the secret to amazeballs lol.

 

[Reefing.with.Rich]

I am in the same boat (currently have 15 different gonis all of them are happy) but cannot keep amazeballs it’s the strangest thing. I am currently on my 3rd amazeballs frag and it’s now been closed for almost a month. They always look amazing the first month but then close completely. I have tried every different flow / lighting etc , just don’t understand it.

The last Goni frag I was able to bring it back by giving it up flow and feeding it every single day for a few weeks , it eventually extended to 50% or so but lost all its color … it had been overtaken by algae while closed and lose most of its flesh. And it eventually closed up again so I tossed it when getting a new Goni frag.

I wish someone who farms this finicky strain would see this thread and give us the secret to amazeballs lol.

Thankfully mine has opened back up and has been for a month now so that’s a good sign lol

 

[nycfreshreef]

Thankfully mine has opened back up and has been for a month now so that’s a good sign lol

That’s good currently waiting for
Mine to open back up hoping
It does so soon lol

 

[xmjxflipx]

Rich who did u get your frag from?

 

[Reefing.with.Rich]

Rich who did u get your frag from?

One from TCK and other from different hobbyist

 

[beboah]

I am in the same boat (currently have 15 different gonis all of them are happy) but cannot keep amazeballs it’s the strangest thing. I am currently on my 3rd amazeballs frag and it’s now been closed for almost a month. They always look amazing the first month but then close completely. I have tried every different flow / lighting etc , just don’t understand it.

The last Goni frag I was able to bring it back by giving it up flow and feeding it every single day for a few weeks , it eventually extended to 50% or so but lost all its color … it had been overtaken by algae while closed and lose most of its flesh. And it eventually closed up again so I tossed it when getting a new Goni frag.

I wish someone who farms this finicky strain would see this thread and give us the secret to amazeballs lol.

People who have the most success with them say they are a different sub specie of Goni and struggle with other goni’s in the tank

 

[zoomonster]

Had the same thing happen to me and found out that my chaeto in my sump was consuming manganese in my water. It’s something that all gonis need. So I started dosing chaetogrow for its trace minerals and also manganese and iron. Now my skeleton gonis are 90% extended

Interesting. Never been big into Goni's but started keeping some again and doing very well since I started growing Chaeto again and adding chaeto grow. Then again, I now also dose Replenish and feed with Benereef (everything loves this stuff) plus aminos and paracoccus powder. Fish eat pretty well too with everything from calanus and plankton to mysis which benefits all. Used to use Reefroids but too much phosphate.

 

[ReefED!]

Old thread, but there's 3 things I've heard mentioned for Gonis

1.) Feeding - I'm on the fence with this because they don't have a feeding response that I can see.

2.) Manganese and Iron

3.) Aminos

I had a goni growing for 9 months suddenly close up for over a month. It was looking pretty grim.

I did dips and other things without much luck. I started "feeding" it by target basting it with an amino/powder food mix ,as well as made sure my manganese and iron were good with dosing of trace.

Now it's almost fully opened up again. This tracks with something Devin from Reef Dudes said he does with amino baths.

YMMV as we figure out this finnicky coral - good luck!