FF#42 | Keeping Goniopora (Flowerpot) in your Reef Tank 

There is no greater measure of success than consistent results over time. Nice reef!

Love these guys! That pink and yellow one is awesome!

Looked great! Thanks for sharing your valuable experiences!

Thank you for the video very informative! Looking forward to more next year. Happy New Year.

Super fantastic video and corrals too sir...

Awesome - been waiting for your take on the Goni ;) Lot's of great info - thanks ;)

Yes they are beautiful Thank you for your video I’ve gotten one and I want it to live

Just set up my 525 XL. Watching a number of them on RU-vid. Your's is amazing.

Beautiful video as always what a treat to watch thumps up buddy

Goniopora are my favourite I've had alot of them. 🎄🎀🎁🎄

Been in the hobby 20 years and ha ave never tried this coral. When I stated they were considered extremely difficult but now not really but have had a hard time potting one that is healthy. Great video.

I just got one off these and is doing well in my tank. great video

Thanks for this great video!

I love your videos, and would like to thank you with a hug and a beer.

All the best for the new year 👍

Amazing!!!

Enjoyed the video. I have one that is being temperamental. I'm going to move it maybe it will help. I did get some mustick too. Happy New Year to you too!

Gorgeous specimens (gonis). I just picked one up today from Petco actually. Looked very healthy no receding tissue and it was 24.99! It's like a wintergreen mint/soft green color. Can't wait for it to open up. Got some Reef Roids to target feed too once it does. Very nice looking tank too by the way! I see your Mandarin decided to make an appearance near the end of the video 👋🏻 hi.

gorgeous looking tank!

Solid.

Thank you

Yea i traded a big colony of tticolor valida acropora. For a orange fungia plate and a red Goniopora. But i didnt know to ask the store owner to have him move the coral or use a turkey baster on it to make the polyps go in so i could see the skeleton. I got home and noticed 40% of the skeleton is dead. White. So fresh. But putting it in my 135g mid way in the tank to low to medium flow. Its polyps came out after 30 min. After 1 day its polyps are out about 1.2 inch now. Sooo hopefully it recovers.. Im kinda pissed he sold me a half dead one. I even called and mentioned it and he said nothing. So i plan to go to another store and get some coral food. My tank also has high nutrients. Some nitrates, some phosphates ect. My dirty tank is the reason why my bubble corals and other corals are so huge. I have a green bubble bigger than your flower pots combined. So hopefully feeding and because my tank isnt so clean. I dont use skimmers and stuff. Hopefully itll come back for me. I mean polyps out seems like a good sign to me

Hey Dutch..... another excellent vid! I wanted to ask about your experience with keeping a CBB and a green Mandarin together.... do they compete for pods? I am setting up a 100G 48 x 24 x 20 and am considering a CBB as the focus fish but will have a mandarin as well. It will be a quiet tank. Your thoughts? Thx!

Your goni look amazing, I have a green that looks like yours and a red one which should look like yours but the polyps only briefly open from time to time. Do you ever have one that just sulks?. Since it cannot be the water parameters or lighting, would you recommend moving the red one?

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I just picked 1 of these up yesterday. Its quite big and only paid $10 for it in the bargain tank. Love the look of it white/pink. Its not as extended as it was in the LFS though, will it just take some time to adjust?

Beautiful tank .great video. I currently have a purple goniopora in my coral qt. Seems healthy and extended but a real pain to feed. It retracts it’s polyps almost immediately even with the slightest amount of water pressure from the turkey baster. Anyway , can you say what your current nitrate and phosphate levels are ?

What phone you rec this film

Nice one Dutch .. quick question , when you say you feed mastic , your are not actually saying that you directly feed mastic to the Goniopora or are you ?

Just added a pink long polyp yesterday. How long does it normally take before it fully extends in a new tank if the parameters are right?

I just having a Dutch reefer watching ur video😂

How's your refugium light holding up? Looking at options for my reefer 250 but sceptical about the light lighting up my whole sump like a kessil h80 so looking for alternatives

I have the same brand of manganese but have no idea how much to dose and the method of introduction. I have a 180g. Can you tell me more specifics?

sir u have magnificent tanks..but can i ask u..why some gonio i saw its have short polyp..but all ur gonio extended long polyp..i want gonio extend long polyp..does strong flow effect it?

Don't know if this got sent, but please tell me the name of bright green coral at rear top left hand side -looking at the front of tank, its waving beautifully. what is the base substrate as it looks like crushed shell with some coral sand, you also have a nice yellow branching fan like coral at bottom front-what is it called. Whats the real way of knowing you are getting cultivated corals, don't taking from the wild. Brilliant illustrations of how much care, time and love love given the aquarium, 10/10 Tony -Salisbury, England . Only asking as upgrading to a new Red Sea MAX S 650 in March.

Hey DUTCH REEFER, I have a green goniopora for about one month and has not extended its tentacles once. It is in a low light, low flow, and on its own island on the ground. What should I do???

What is that circle stuck on the glass?

Wow my goniopora do not extend like that at all. They barely come out an inch. It has enough light im certain so maybe more flow will help

I may have just screwed up. I bought 2 from an auction, and the polyps didint look real long and flwing like your but I just assumed as they grew they would get longer but since I have paid for thm I noticed smaler one with real long tenacles. I also saw there are reall y flat varietys as well. i am not vert experienced and discovered these arent that expensive anyway I mauy ask If I can trade for another coral. What can you tell me about them and which one have the really long tentacles like yours. I cant find anything online. Is there a certain anme to the longer gonis?

Nice video, What kind/name of the food you stuck to the glass?

do multiple Gonioporas can leave in the tank next to each other?

Could you do a video of your sump and equipment?

What type of sand are you using?

can goniopora touch Zhoa??

Masstick is the worst