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Still very nice.

 

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Could be short stem and not macro. Either way. Mixed goni sp dont play nice together

Yep. I try to keep my Gonis close enough without actually touching.

 

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See how un-green it is? I'm very happy!

 

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Adds a nice color to the rest.

 

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A good score

 

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Hard to tell in the picture but the hammer that survived (supposedly a branching green) is a second Splatter Hammer, just not as much blue. It's a wall hammer most likely, not branching.

 

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I wonder about some of these hammers.

 

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What do you think @Gtinnel ? Goni? Definitely wouldn't classify it as Mint Green.

 

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What do you think @Gtinnel ? Goni? Definitely wouldn't classify it as Mint Green.

I don’t know from the pictures but I usually just go by the number of tentacles, which you already know about, and it looks like more than 12 to me. It definitely doesn’t look like the same coral that the picture from reef chasers shows.

If the polyps never really extend and it encrusts then it could also be a bernardpora, but I don’t know that much about them yet.

 

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I don’t know from the pictures but I usually just go by the number of tentacles, which you already know about, and it looks like more than 12 to me. It definitely doesn’t look like the same coral that the picture from reef chasers shows.

If the polyps never really extend and it encrusts then it could also be a bernardpora, but I don’t know that much about them yet.

Based on this, I'm going with Bernardpora. It has definite pointy tips on the ends of the petals (which was my first clue it wasn't an alve), it looks more encrusting (as @Gtinnel pointed out), and it only comes out about 1/8" or less like a Cyphastrea almost.

Goni or bernardpora

Sold as a Goni but I just got done watching Jake talk about Goni’s, Alve’s and bernardapora and based on his description of a Bernardpora I swear this is one. A couple things he said where, it’s more of an incruster and the “fingers” have 18-24 tips like Goni’s but they are more pointy then...

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I don’t know much about bernardpora, honestly it has only been recently that I’ve even heard of them, but from what I have read they can be aggressive growers and take over similar to gsp. From the pictures I’ve seen of them, describing them as cyphastrea like seems accurate.

 

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And I'm counting 22 lashes in the polyps I can count on so definitely not an Alveopora!

Thanks @Gtinnel and @Mibu !

 

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And I'm counting 22 lashes in the polyps I can count on so definitely not an Alveopora!

Thanks @Gtinnel and @Mibu !

Give it time to open, the polyps looks bigger than the bernardpora. There are several ranges in length. Macro, short, medium and long stem. Go figure aye?

 

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And I'm counting 22 lashes in the polyps I can count on so definitely not an Alveopora!

Thanks @Gtinnel and @Mibu !

You typically see that gonis have 24 but I believe I’ve also read that they can have anywhere from 16-24.

 

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Might i suggest dosing all for reef powder? My coral are responding dramatically. Goni included.

 

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My gonis have reacted well to amino dosing.

 

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I'm doing aminos and phyto. All for Reef is Calc, Mag, Alk, and trace, right? My Calcium and Magnesium rarely drop but my Alkalinity drops like crazy.

 

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I'm doing aminos and phyto. All for Reef is Calc, Mag, Alk, and trace, right? My Calcium and Magnesium rarely drop but my Alkalinity drops like crazy.

I did aminos, did nothing. All for reef has the manganese gonis like. It is an all in one, cal, mag, alk, trace elements.

Edit: alk depletes quickly in our reef tanks. There is a formula, I just don't know it well.

 

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I'm doing aminos and phyto. All for Reef is Calc, Mag, Alk, and trace, right? My Calcium and Magnesium rarely drop but my Alkalinity drops like crazy.

Theoretically if you alk is dropping your magnesium and calcium have to be dropping too.