What's not to love about Gonipora? It's colorful, it flows, so what is it?

[JaimeAdams]

Any red glitter long tentacle Goni?
Amazeballz?

We do not have any red glitter goni yet. We do have a couple amazeballs, but its going to be awhile before we frag them again.

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

I am still baffled to why my goni died.
Came from a well established colony.
All other corals thrived (40 of em) in the time frame.
IT is a mystery I will never solved.
Reluctant to try again until I get some insight on what causes goni deaths.
(one possible cause of death, stung by an elegance)

I talked to a guy who had some for sale at a local event last weekend - he said the difficulty a lot of people encounter with them is feeding. I thought that was interesting.

 

[KenO]

I talked to a guy who had some for sale at a local event last weekend - he said the difficulty a lot of people encounter with them is feeding. I thought that was interesting.

There was a video I watched sometime back. The person said the key to keeping them alive is adding manganese. I use the reef moonshine products and add extra manganese. They seem to really like it.

 

[flashsmith]

This one's probably 7-8" across when fully opened. I've only spot fed it a couple of times and seems to be thriving. I broadcast feed ab+ phyto and oyster feast. I've had it on the sand bed and up high under radions and does well wherever I've put it. I have a small red one that does just as well. No special care and it thrives.

 

[bruno3047]

I have a red-mouth green goni and blue-mouth red goni. I feed them twice a week with goniopower by putting a cut off 2 L bottle over them with a 1/2 inch tube attached extending above the rim of the tank. Using a dropper, I drop the powder mixed with a little water Into the tube and watch the powder drop onto the retracted goni. Within a half hour the pile of food that was on the goni is gone and the polyps began extending. Amazing stuff. See these pictures of my gonis right now being fed about a half hour ago.

 

[Sink_or_Swim]

There was a video I watched sometime back. The person said the key to keeping them alive is adding manganese. I use the reef moonshine products and add extra manganese. They seem to really like it.

Good to know! I have been afraid to get one and it die a slow death.

 

[reefsaver]

It was the first coral I failed to keeep ):

 

[Treefer32]

I just got three colonies of goni. One I think is alveopora. A goni cousin. That one is open the most. The actual gonipora are doing o.k. not reaching for the lights like the alveopora is. I'm dosing all for reef which includes manganese. I don't know if it's enough. I always see manganese packaged with iron and my iron is high enough (with ICP test). I don't want to dose iron to get manganese.

 

[flashsmith]

I've always found it kinda funny in this hobby how everyone has different success rates with certain types of corals. Gonis, hammers, cristata,frogspawn Scolys have all seemed easy to me and I'm by no means an expert nor do I chase numbers. But put a torch in my tank in within a couple of months it's gone every single time.lol

 

[bruno3047]

I have a red-mouth green goni and blue-mouth red goni. I feed them twice a week with goniopower by putting a cut off 2 L bottle over them with a 1/2 inch tube attached extending above the rim of the tank. Using a dropper, I drop the powder mixed with a little water Into the tube and watch the powder drop onto the retracted goni. Within a half hour the pile of food that was on the goni is gone and the polyps began extending. Amazing stuff. See these pictures of my gonis right now being fed about a half hour ago.

Gonis today after last nights feeding. Any questions about my feeding tool, just ask.

 

[R33fDaddy]

1 red and 1 green. Had them about a year. They are both ORA cultured.

The Emerald crab cleans them at night. I guess they like it. He has been doing that for quite a while.

I'm just curious. What is your PH Range?