Great video! Just got a goni and I think your video has saved me from failure so thank you! I will definitely use some of the Reefroids that I have to feed it!
Thanks for this video! I bought a lovely red gonipora 2 weeks ago that has completely shut down, although there's healthy tissue. I'm waiting patiently, hoping that the polyps will begin to show up again. I'm not giving up though, as I've read stories where it's taken a month a two for them to reopen. I'll also keep a close eye on my water parimeters. The general consensus is that they're not easy to keep. Well done on your success!
OUTSTANDING LOOKING TANK ! Very well landscaped and love all the softies. Trigger is a character for sure. Thanks for the goni-lesson. Lighting, flow & feedings. Mention also plse water parameters & temp. Again, super deluxe accomplishment with that tank.... 👌🌴
Thanks! I Keep the temp around 77 to 78 Dkh 8 to 8.5 Ph over 8 Calcium 450ish Mag 1350ish Salinity 35 I run full moonshine method for trace supplements
Can you please do a video about "Is it safe to keep a reef tank with kids?"? I just got into the hobby, but I have a young toddler and I am very much worried about palytoxins and other issues. Thanks in advance!
just dont frag zoanthids near your kid. touching the coral or water isnt gonna give you palytoxin poisioning. it comes from cutting up and fragging palys/zoas mostly palys.
my goniopora was very well. there fell some leds inside the aquarium and I leave a soft powder more I took as soon as I saw n, passed a lot of time, more now the coral is closed to a week, the more it is still there. the night I see it half q 10% open. made a two tpa of 50% and I am feeding even q above with the reef roids. will goniopora recompose yet? have some advice I can make. I am Brazileiro. thank you from now on.
Do goniopora vary how much they are extended? mine tend to be less extended the day after I feed, is this perhaps as they are content and fed and extend essentially to feed? What could a lesser extension mean if no change to parameters when otherwise fully extended..
Thanks! That large purple one can only be kept by the two I have it by. It stings all my other ones I have tried. I just recently started dosing manganese, so they can survive without dosing it, but I am hoping they will do even better with it. I do a lot of water changes though and run a calcium reactor, so they may get manganese from that
Help. I have an iron man goni that has started to keep itself retracted. The bottom of it is starting to look like it may be dying off. My water perameters are all ok. I dont know the par I dont have a meter. Salinity 1.o25. Alk is 11. No ammonia no nitrites natrates 20 ppm. Its in a 210 gallon mixed reef tank and the only issue I just found was some acro eating flat worms which I am trying to deal with now. Any ideas of what i can do to save him? Its about the size of a golf ball. Im going to do a dip on it. Should I set up a small tank and try keeping him in it by himself maybe?I know that iron and manganese are important for goniapora but I have no way to test for those things in my water. I. Habe essential trace elements from kent but I don't wanna dose my tank without knowing the levels that are already in it. Any advice would be great. Thank you
You honestly need to send an icp. Triton will be the most reliable fast one. Ati, triton and oceamo are the best, it triton will be fastest. Alk of 11 is very high. I know many people keep it that high, but it is on the edge of safety for sure. It could be so many things though. Can be bacterial, could be the par, could be the flow, or some other contaminant. It’s hard to say.
You should just do water changes to replenish those. Use a salt thats already high in both and itll be much cheaper to do water changes than dosing that stuff. Asside from kh of course. Like reef crystals have high calcium and magnesium and you can get a 169g bucket for 34$ on chewy price matched in petsmart
I just got a red one from a local store... traded a big colony of tricolor valida for it golf ball sized and a orange fungia plate. However ny mistake was not asking them to make a wave with their hand or turkey baster to make the polyps shrink so i could see the skeleton. I got home and 40% of it skeleton is dead. However eithin 30 min in my tank its polyps are out about 1 inch. It seems healthy besides the flesh on the skeleton.. soo i hope in my tank and eith feeding itll recover. Im just pissed off i traded s basketball colony of acropora for a half dead goniopora the fungia is healthy at least. But the store owner didnt even say anything when i called and texted a pic of the goni when i got home. I hate dishonest local fish stores. This is why im atarting to get corals from petco.. believe it or not petco can order me any coral i want from ora and whatever and theyre usually much cheaper and way healthier
I hate that! They for sure should have told you, but the good news is these recover well. I have had really good luck with the red ones. Hopefully it will regrow over the exposed skeleton in no time. Only time I have had one like this die was when it had a bacterial infection, but if the polyps are out, then that is probably not the case.
how long after the goni is introduced to the tank, until the polyps start to really pull out, its been in for about 30 hours now and although the polyps are super present they don't really push out?
I think they like a dirty thank They are nutrients hungry. I mean I could be wrong it’s just my thinking pristine water pushes them back whereas nutrient rich water they grow fast that’s my experience anyway.
