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F i s h y said:
Thank you... I appreciate the compliment.
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You’re welcome. :)

Can you give me some advice on Goniopora? I have one that did well for about 10 months, but now it‘s been closed for weeks.

Are all of your aquacultured? Do you feed anything to them? Trace elements?
 
Miami Reef said:
You’re welcome. :)

Can you give me some advice on Goniopora? I have one that did well for about 10 months, but now it‘s been closed for weeks.

Are all of your aquacultured? Do you feed anything to them? Trace elements?
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I have found that mine do this in cycles. Will be fine for months then close up with minimal polyp extension for a while. Every time they do I move them to lowest light possible and leave them. They typically start opening again in a week or so. You can see in my pics I have a purple one that was fine 5 days ago but has now been closed for a couple days.
Once they have been opening for a week or so I slowly move them back out.
Moderate flow.
No direct feedings, however, I feed my tank heavily. The fish get 2 feedings of 5 frozen cubes a day. This is a combo of mysis, spirulina mysis, spirulina brine, and blood worms.
2 sheets of nori a day
I also include a cube of either baby brine or cyclopeeze with the night time feeding. Twice a week I substitute oyster eggs for these.
I use AB+ once every 2 weeks (aminos)
I run my Mg above 1500.
Alk 8.6
Ca 475
Ph 8.1
Salinity 35
No3 10 to 15
Po4 .15 to .25
I test weekly on Thursdays
I run a refugium on a reverse light cycle and use an undersized skimmer.
Manually dose brightwell part A and B.
Lastly I put a capful of brightwell replenish and a capful of brightwell iodion in each 5 gallons of RODI I add to my ATO reservoir. I know this is inexact as rates of evap vary but it has worked.
The largest pink goni started out the size of a marble.
 
F i s h y said:
I have found that mine do this in cycles.
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Yes!!! Mine also do this in cycles!!! I’ve been scratching my head trying to figure out why. A red one bleaches then comes back then bleaches again. It’s absolutely diabolical. They are such a masochistic coral.

Thank you so much for the information on your Goniopora. It really helps. :)
 
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Nate Chalk said:
Eggs, nacho cheese and espresso....
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Cube Build - Starting my new 30x30 sps...

An update... Back after 3 weeks. The tank did well controlled remotely. Zero losses but have cyano growing over the substrate that needs vacuuming. SPS' grew quite a bit, but the biggest noticeable change is with the Goldflake. She came in originally smaller than the Regal, but now is bigger...
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dude.... this tank right in the window for actual sunlight.... the dream
 
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Nate Chalk said:
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Cube Build - Starting my new 30x30 sps...

An update... Back after 3 weeks. The tank did well controlled remotely. Zero losses but have cyano growing over the substrate that needs vacuuming. SPS' grew quite a bit, but the biggest noticeable change is with the Goldflake. She came in originally smaller than the Regal, but now is bigger...
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dude.... this tank right in the window for actual sunlight.... the dream
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That tank is genius and I love what they did with the rockscape/plumbing.
 

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