Purple Bush Gorg (Muriceopsis flavida)

[thatfishnerd]

Hello,
I have had my Gorg for a few months now and it has grown significantly and I have fragged it multiple times. For those of you who don't know this type of gorg is photosynthetic. I keep the colony and frags in high flow areas and I keep finding that occasionally the colony and frags have a small die off of the tips of the corals so that its skeleton will be showing. Does anybody know why this happens? What could cause this? What I could do to prevent this? For those of you that own gorgs, what are your experiences with them? Have you seen anything similar to what I am experiencing?
Thanks!!
~Sean

 

[duke4130]

Although you say that it is photosynthetic it still needs to eat. The photosynthetic part means that it utilizes the sun to grow as you already know but it still needs to eat. The non-photosynthetic corals only use food to grow and no need of light. All corals have polyps (mouths) which are used to eat food. All corals need to eat. I would recommend using a food such as Coral Frenzy powder, Reef Roids or Reef Chili... Something along those lines