Goniopora split off babys.

[b-o-b-s]

Does anyone have experience or advice on growing these baby gonies out. The mother colony seems to be doing well and I'd like to see the baby's thrive as well. One is the size of a nickel and one that is forming is going to be the size of a silver dollar.

 

[Reefing Madness]

:bump2:

 

[LOVETHISHOBBY]

Wow that's awesome! I've never had any of mine do that before. I'm hoping someone has some experience, so I'm tagging along too.

 

[shred5]

Yea Goniopora budding very nice..Does it have much of a skeleton? or is it just polyp bale-out?.. If it has a skeleton that is large enough you can glue it down to something I would. Problem is they will roll and drift around the tank because of thier size and buoyancy... I like to use a plastic berry container to house them in with the holes in it... If they have no skeleton I use the same thing or a small Tupperware container to house them in in a little slower current till they lay down a skeleton and or attach to something.. Use some really coarse gravel in the bottom of a flat rock actually works better. Depending on the type they may not attach.

 

[b-o-b-s]

They have Skelton attached already. I glued the smallest one to a frag disc and moved it slightly down stream of the mother colony.

 

[b-o-b-s]

The second split is the bottom right section of the mother colony

 

[b-o-b-s]

First baby

 

[Mike J.]

Here's a description of what happened. It produced what is called a satellite daughter colony and it may continue to do it. They are products of asexual budding where a tentacle of the parent becomes incused with a calcareous nodule that grows until it is sufficiently weighted to break away from the parent. At that time, it will take up residence on the sand bottom as a free living, individual colony. This mode of propagation seems to be common in the wild and is presently the most successful way to raise it in captivity too.

 

[Eienna]

How cool!! Congrats!!

 

[shred5]

The second split is the bottom right section of the mother colony

The blue goni.. I cant tell the type right now because the polyps are closed but It looks like one I have been looking for.. Gonis are so hard to id from a picture. It is one of the eaier ones to keep. I bought one from Reefkoi not too long ago that I thought was it and it turned out not to be, once I actually got it. But it still is a nice peace I got from Reef Koi and really has taken off. I have l kept a lot of different ones and got rid of them all they were to much work once I switched back to a larger tank... Now I am looking for some of the easier ones to keep again, the ones that need less feedings.... .Congrats on the babies...

 

[pam0630]

thats awesome

 

[b-o-b-s]

Its an average neon green color and I'm not sure of the exact species. I purchased it from cultivated reef and greg let me pick out the one I wanted which was the larger of the three he had. I really don't do anything special and I don't feed it directly due to its polup recession when I try to target feed. I just use coal frenzy food in the water column 1-2 Times per week when I feed the entire tank.

 

[pam0630]

want to sell any???

 

[b-o-b-s]

Sure but I'd like to make sure they are going to live and grow before I take people's money lol.

 

[Eienna]

The trick to target-feeding these things is to avoid squirting the food directly at it. Squirt it upstream and let the current take it to the coral.

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