Hey there

nefretier · Mar 29, 2022

Hello, I will be honest what pulled me here was intense searching on blueberry gorgonias. I've known of the hobby for about 5 years now but only recently got into reef keeping in the past two. My boyfriend and I have a 40 gallon tank. Currently we have pulsing xenia, armor of God zoas, some mushrooms, unknown zoas, and a long tentacle anemone. I made the jump to a blueberry gorgonia but I've struggled to make it happy and thrive so here I am.

Peace River · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

UkiahTheTurtle · Mar 29, 2022

youcallmenny1 · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to the club! I'm interested to see your journey!

Miami Reef · Mar 29, 2022

JaimeAdams · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome. Blueberry Gogonians are beautiful, but extremely difficult to keep in a tank.

Billldg · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to R2R!!!

Rmckoy · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to r2r

blueberry gorg I believe are nps and require regular feeding . I’m sure there are threads on here for now corals and all the information you could ask for only a search away .

Doctorgori · Mar 29, 2022

hi ya and welcome

tharbin · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to R2R! Blueberry Gorgonians are not easy. Make sure it gets good flow and lower light (mainly to avoid algae growing on it) and supplemental feeding several times a week. I'm not sure whether it needs phytoplankton or zooplankton or both but you can start with some phytoplankton which is easy to obtain and see how it does. I haven't tried any of the marine snow type products (last time I had a non-photosynthetic gorgonian was before they existed) but one of them may work.

Fred2482 · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome!

Rmckoy · Mar 29, 2022

Pictures are always welcome .

otzhorse · Mar 29, 2022

PeterC99 · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to R2R!

vetteguy53081 · Mar 29, 2022

bnord · Mar 29, 2022

welcome and I just received a frag for Armor of God too !! growing well

agree on the caution on the Blueberry, and there are lots of other easy starter Gorgonians

stay close...

Fishfreak2009 · Mar 29, 2022

Welcome to Reef2Reef! I definitely suggest getting a variety of live phytoplankton species, live baby brine shrimp, as well as something life reef chili/reef roids to feed. I do not have a blueberry gorg (yet), but that is what I feed my purple NPS gorg daily. It is thriving and has grown with daily phyto, 3-4x weekly fresh hatched live baby brine shrimp, and 1-2x weekly feedings of reef chili/reef roids.

You can see my purple NPS gorg in the bottom left of the picture.

nefretier · Mar 29, 2022

Fishfreak2009 said:
Welcome to Reef2Reef! I definitely suggest getting a variety of live phytoplankton species, live baby brine shrimp, as well as something life reef chili/reef roids to feed. I do not have a blueberry gorg (yet), but that is what I feed my purple NPS gorg daily. It is thriving and has grown with daily phyto, 3-4x weekly fresh hatched live baby brine shrimp, and 1-2x weekly feedings of reef chili/reef roids.

You can see my purple NPS gorg in the bottom left of the picture.

Adolfo · Mar 29, 2022

Fishfreak2009 · Mar 29, 2022

I would recommend pruning the dead sections off that gorgonian. Definitely try feeding it with some live phyto and reef roids! Mine seems to like Tetraselmis and Isochrysis the best of all the different phytoplanktons.