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
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!
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.
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
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..
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.
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
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 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.
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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!
great video i just got my first BRIGHT GREEN GONIOPORA yesterday
Good luck with it! I hope it does awesome
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
@@HerbysReef I think this is important to point out that you're running the moonshiner's method alongside this!
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 I like how you have your Zoras on on the back will copy this cheers.
Thanks for the info!
Beautiful tank, how much gallons is this? The triggerfish looks amazing might consider keeping this one myself.
Aweome video :) thank you so much. Subscribed!
Red Goniopora medium size was doing great for over a year and now wont open, any advice?
thnx
That tank is beautiful!
Thanks!
Great video, just found you and subscribed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
Thanks!
How are you getting that gentle flow in the tank. What power heads ?
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.
I've had 3 frags for months they do not extend at all its on sandbed also
Great video, do you add Calcium or magnesium? I try to keep my KH within the levels but I'm beginning and I was wondering about Ca and MG, thanks :)
Water changes seem to keep my magnesium in place, but calcium is dosed by the calcium reactor
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
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..
I agree w/ the aqua culture thing, it's way often over looked. Do you feed phytoplankton?
I only feed the phytoplankton that is in the benereef, but not any of the live kind. I cultured it in the past, but decided it was too much trouble.
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.
I have three goniopora...green...purple...pink...yellow stabilo
Great video.
Some of them are really aggressive, even to other gonioporas. I also heard that manganese is key to their survival.
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
@@HerbysReef I also have a purple one that extends some polyps really far and can even sting anemones.
Mine might! I have never seen it close to the anemone though so cant say for sure
I had one for yrs never feed him once and grew huge
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?
Sometimes it can take months for them to extend really far. My Ora took two months, but now it is huge and growing fast!
You have to acclimate them to light, i got mine at my lfs where they kept the light to bare minimum for some reason.
What was the reef stuff you use?
I use benereef. It is great because it usually won’t increase phosphates the way some foods do
Thank you 😀
Mine retract and sulk quite often. Normal?
Mine stay open most of the time, but that can be normal when they are newer
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.
What lighting do you use?
I have radions and t5 hybrid fixture with blue plus bulbs
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.
They definitely like the nutrients. Very true.
Can they eat plankton too?
I’m honestly not sure. I would for sure add some small particulate food as well.
Mine grow like weeds
i see your clown is hosting one of yous , do they normally kill them ?
My clowns love the gonis. They never damage them though. I dont think the goni minds at all
No Reaction of Food
I can’t ever tell that they are reacting, they absorb it through their skin.
It will survive in 6 month tank age otherwise it will die
I have grown them in brand new tanks. It just depends on how you keep them😀
New sub here! thanks for the video. almost 1k subs .wtg!
THanks! Wish I had time to make more videos, but I really appreciate all of you guys!!!
How do you get the flow like that?
I use a couple of Tunze pumps on pulse mode
Herby’s Reef love it. I think mine is way to strong. Doesn’t have the back and forth motion.
@@phokusonmi6375 Many people will tell you they like really strong flow, but I find most really prefer the gentle sway
Herby’s Reef you have the best ones I’ve seen yet. I’ll stick to your method if I can figure out the settings on the mp10s