I will elaborate on my personal experience with fragged gonis/alveos vs imported ones. Protozoan bacterias form on them just like brown jelly with imported euphyllia. ones that have been fragged are ones that have survived long enough to adapt to aquarium water and not begin to have LPS-RTN (protozoan bacteria). and typically if you are growing out fragged lps youre not going to import corals and put those in the same tank. I have put imported flowerpots with healthy colonies that were in captivity for a year and melted all of them and that's when my research started on these. all of the stuff in their skeletons important as well but anyone who has killed a flowerpot can see how quick they can melt, the biggest thing there is to prevent it from spreading.
My favorite Coral ever I have seven of them in my tank all thriving. Definitely some of the best movement corals you can get and with some of these new species coming out Amazing colors
I started my flowerpot coral collection last fall and I'm up to 26 pieces of Goniopora and 5 pieces of Alveopora; well... now I know that at least three of my gonis are now Bernardpora corals. Great video!! Now I want to buy some more!
I had these six years ago and could only keep them for 3-4 months alive than overnight they would start dying but they were wild caught ones. I will try these again like you said from a frag. Thanks for putting this out great information.
I'm new to the hobby. My water Box will be here in 2 weeks. I can't wait to have all these amazing live corals. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't completely overwhelmed. I feel like I need a degree in marine biology to keep things happy and healthy. I am however up for the challenge! These videos are very helpful. My best game plan is research, study, repeat. I want my eco system to flourish. Wish me luck!🐠🐡🐟
Danny dingable if u are dedicated ,and serious about keeping corals in an aquarium I can tell u I was new to the hobby about 3 yrs ago ,but I have learned so much from the RU-vid videos,and by just reading lots and lots of literature. My nano tank at one time had so much coral in it . For me it was mesmerizing. Now I have an 86 gallon bowfront aquarium with a flex 4 in 1 sump.Now I have to save money 4 a protein skimmer, but anyways good luck Dannny!
15:19 That! Also, perhaps anaerobic areas within the skeleton coming from the wild would rot after handling, removing from the water, transportation, temperature change, ... organics and inorganics in the water... they got more adapted to the aquarium lights in captivity after a while. They love light though! Justin probably had them under halides back in the day. They looked much healthier. Sand bed does great for them too. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks for this video! I was able to identify one of my “micro gonis” as bernardpora thanks to your excellent descriptions. I had it right in the middle of some gonis when I realized it was encrusting the plug and the polyps were obviously micro sized. Could it be that all these micro gonis being sold are actually bernardpora? I isolated it from the rest. Thanks again!!
I love flower pots! Got 3 alveaporas, and 4 gonis including a glitter bomb (my favorite)! All doing well, though a few weeks ago my pink goni closed up for well over a week, and looked like it was starting to bleach, which prompted me to move it to a lower light, slightly lower flow area, it reopened after 2 days in the new location, and has since started to recover it's color. When I did a PAR test on the tank, the original location was in a middle rock section towards the bottom 3rd of the rock, but it was directly under one of my Radions XR30 G5 blues, and that spot tested at 220 PAR. The new spot is at just over 100 PAR. Lesson learned!
I haven't had much luck with either species yet, but was told that after a year to 18 months, once a tank has stabalized the chances of keeping them alive would increase. With that said I haven't tried them out since my first try in fear that I would just end up killing them, but thanks for some tips and info, I'll definitely keep what you said in mind when I'm on the hunt again
Great vid Jake love my gonis got 9 different types of them, just want to say adding manganese to keep it at nsw levels helps them flourish polyp extension etc. I add it daily to my reef as it is used up very quickly if you have a fuge with chaeto . Had mine for over 2 years they often throw off baby ones .Good articles about manganese addition for these on the web 👍👍👍
Dont often see then so low and directly on sandbed! Do you not recomend that? Iheard you say gradually move them up but your are so low How on earth are you able to keep sps so low down with them? Can you tell me the names of the sps that like lower light? Also lps? I have some tonga and a bridge that runs along back of tank with lower light and I am going to put zoas but to large an area for all zoas, so looking for low light and low and it would be great if they didint sting! Great tank!
I used to have a goniopora when I still had my reef tank. I want to build a smaller sps dominant tank now with maybe one or two gonis at the bottom. Am I going to start a war?
Do they strictly need target feeding ,or it's optional? Because some of hobbiest are willing to do that but due to lack of time and unpredictable schedule are unable to perform that regularly,so please tell me 🙂🙂🙂🙂 thanks in advance.🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hey jake just a bit of an off question. How often do you do water changes on your systems? I know you kinda bend the rules every chance you get; not in a bad way. But you always have such an interesting take on almost everything like with no cycle starts for corals. Just curious to what your opinion is on water changes. Thanks in advance !
I do about a 25% change once a month on most tanks mostly to remove detritus in some tanks, but it also seems to be the most sensible regimen for replenishing certain trace elements.
@@ReefBuildersVideo I was suprised to see you feed so much. I sa one of your videos on a small nano and I thought you said you rarely feed the fish, even. You had been away and coudnt believe how well you tank didi without putting your hands in, actually I belie v you said you never put yours hands in! My hands are in my tanks daily, either a frag gets knocked off or a snail needs righting or a piece of my hair is wrapped around a tentacle..haha. Always a reason! Should I get gloves?
I have NEVER had success with alveopora. The only flower pot that I have tried. They have always been frags. What specifically should I be doing to allow the water to be dirty? What mechanical filtration and chemical filtration should I use/not use? I’m trying again right now and this alveopora isn’t happy.
