Goniopora Success?

Discussion in 'Corals' started by jaysuncle, Mar 23, 2007.

  1. jaysuncle

    jaysuncle Guest

    Have any of you had any success with Goniopora corals? Especially the ones sold as flowerpot corals? If you've had success, what lighting do you have and what/how do you feed it?
     
  2. wilsonreef

    wilsonreef Guest

    What I've read and seen, they don't have a very good track record. I had one and it lasted about 1 year. I was told that was good because they usually didn't last that long. Then, I've seen people that's had them for years. I think they're just difficult to keep.
     
  3. The only Gonipora that I have seen do well for any length of time was in the main tank at H20cean. The one that they had actually asexually spawned numerous times. I stear clear of them because of the information that I have heard on them at MACNA conferences, which is that they do not do well. Julian Sprung at one time was working hard to investigate the lack of success with that species with little to no success at the time of his lecture several years ago.
     
  4. sdf_beanhead

    sdf_beanhead Grouper

    I have raised my Gonipora (in the same family as Porites) from the size of a small english pea to the size of a standard marble which puts it at about 6 months old. It is still growing has done exceptionally well. There is a group of people somewhere (I cannot find the info anymore) that had kept a ton of them for long periods of time... years and years. If you do your research, you find out that they live in lagoons which means high nutrients and shallow shallow water. The people that were so successful with them kept them in shallow grow out tanks under intense light and fed them cyclopeez and liquified frozen food (basically the Borneman blend). The other key to success with them is to supplment with iron and manganese, I use RedSea's Success Green, and my skimmer is slightly under powered for my water volume (dirtier water).

    If you don't know it, I enjoy finding things that everyone else ignores or has no interest in. I have a Leptoseris that was buried in the sand after the Sinularia that was attached to it melted and died at the store. I also have a Montipora that came from the same situation. Sorry for rambling.
     

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