New goniopora issues

Kial · Apr 24, 2022

Picked up a goniopora today from the LFS. Was fully extended, looking awesome etc.

Got home and I noticed parts of
The skeleton are showing. Dipped it and now its fully extended already in my tank and looking fine. (For now)

Picture below is as soon I put it into the tank. Will get a current photo this evening.

My question is though, will i be fighting a lost cause with this coral due to how much skeleton is already showing?

Will be feeding goniopwer, also running 2x hydra 32hds.

Not an IT guy · Apr 24, 2022

In my experience yes. Goni are hard to gauge. One minute they are fine next they are white craters on frag plugs.

Kial · Apr 24, 2022

Not an IT guy said:
In my experience yes. Goni are hard to gauge. One minute they are fine next they are white craters on frag plugs.

Yeah that's what I was thinking, was pretty cheap to buy so I'll give it a good shot to try keep it going.

Seems to be pretty happy right now. Will add a video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/2vQqRH6XQUY?feature=share

blaxsun · Apr 24, 2022

I think there's a good chance it will survive. It might take a while to sufficiently recover. I have a small flat disc that's similarly ticked off (snails keep knocking it upside down), but there's still some red polyps hanging in there!

gbroadbridge · Apr 24, 2022

Kial said:
Picked up a goniopora today from the LFS. Was fully extended, looking awesome etc.

Got home and I noticed parts of
The skeleton are showing. Dipped it and now its fully extended already in my tank and looking fine. (For now)

Picture below is as soon I put it into the tank. Will get a current photo this evening.

My question is though, will i be fighting a lost cause with this coral due to how much skeleton is already showing?

Will be feeding goniopwer, also running 2x hydra 32hds.

I'd expect with stable parameters it will recover.

They can take a few days to settle in.

Kial · Apr 24, 2022

This might be a stupid question, but I've noticed some of the heads don't extend as far as the majority. So they don't get any light due to being shaded. Does every single head need to be getting light?

blaxsun · Apr 24, 2022

Kial said:
This might be a stupid question, but I've noticed some of the heads don't extend as far as the majority. So they don't get any light due to being shaded. Does every single head need to be getting light?

No. With good flow there should be enough movement that light reaches the vast majority of the heads.

maroun.c · Apr 24, 2022

that dead part could have been due to placing the corals so they were iin the sand... that would be the nest scenario I believe and then rest of the colony would be perfectly find. nothing you can really do at this stage but watch.

Kial · Apr 24, 2022

maroun.c said:
that dead part could have been due to placing the corals so they were iin the sand... that would be the nest scenario I believe and then rest of the colony would be perfectly find. nothing you can really do at this stage but watch.

In the LFS it was on an egg crate sort of mid level of their tank.

Yeah I'll be keeping a close eye on it, but everything seems good so far. The heads closest to the skeleton are a more fluorescent colour to the main colony. Pretty sure I seen something about this in that Netflix doco "chasing corals" about dying corals