blueberry gorgonian tips??

reefwars · #1 03-30-2012, 03:41 AM

anyone keeping one healthy or long term?? anything your doing special??

fishytime · #2 03-30-2012, 04:55 AM

I tried one before.....it lasted a few months......from what I gather.....feed phyto-esque foods heavily and tonnes of flow......anything that gets caught in them, ie. algae, must be removed immediately....the tissue damages rather easily and can open them up to trouble

reefwars · #3 03-30-2012, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

I tried one before.....it lasted a few months......from what I gather.....feed phyto-esque foods heavily and tonnes of flow......anything that get cought in them, ie. algae, must be removed immediately....the tissue damages rather easily and can open them up to trouble

that was the the same as my purple frilly one as well if it never got enough flow it would get algae. ive had the frag for almost a week now for the first couple of days the polyps would just kinda show you could see the ends of the tips, now they are out most the time.

im trying to see what i want to get to feed it right now i get a feeding response using fauna marin ultra clam just not sure if its anygood longterm although longterm isnt very much heard of.

now that its showing polyps im gonna move it in a couple days off the shelf and into the shade .

reefwars · #4 03-30-2012, 05:06 AM

heres a pic of it now, the frag had some ends that were exposed on 2 branches so once it finishes acclimatizing to my tank ill trim them back.i can start to see blue in the stem as opposed to the brown its been:P

bkelly · #5 03-31-2012, 01:08 AM

i picked up one a bit ago too , sure are neat. It came very healthy i think it was in a higher nitrate system its suffered with me , fell into my anem a couple times but got it now in my frag tank maybe to stay as i fear my display tangs/angels will go to town on it. I been trying the Fauna ultra sea fan powder. hope it pulls through.

daniella3d · #6 03-31-2012, 01:57 AM

Impossible. Nobody has ever managed to keep those more than a few months, not even those with dedicated non-photosynthetic tank with constant feeding system.

First we don't know exactly what it is eating but it is not eating phyto, more likely rich water with zooplankton in it.

And second, it grow in deep water so the warm water in our tank is very detrimental to it. Most probably it would need water at temperature of around 60F to 65F and only blue light so no algae can grow on it. It live is deep water with very rich cool water from the deep.

It is probably the hardest to keep non-photosynthetic coral.

I managed to keep one for about 4 months feeding it 10 to 12 times a day with fauna marin ultraseafan, ultramin, reefroid, coral frenzy, oyster eggs, rotifeast, you name it. Yet it died never mind what I did.

Mine even regrew the flesh at the base that was damaged but it still died anyway.

PFoster · #7 06-26-2012, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

that was the the same as my purple frilly one as well if it never got enough flow it would get algae.

Are you refering to the purple frilly gorgs from the caribbean?

reefwars · #8 06-26-2012, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by PFoster

Are you refering to the purple frilly gorgs from the caribbean?

i believe so here is a pic i dont have it anymore this was a few years ago pretty easy gorg to keep, i bought it as a "purple frilly" there are still frags alive i cut going around. phosphates were doing me a bad battle at the time with a skimmerless tank....this is also when i first started gfo for the first time....now i use it for every set-up