Any luck with Goniopora stutchburyi / burgosi? (Encrusting Goniopora)

[BC Mosaic]

Thanks for that info Myka.

Mine is not as large as Michael from England nor does it get as tall.
Here is a quick photo taken by a hand held camera and under moon lights just to show the "magma effect". I figure June to be it's first year aniversary.

[Myka]

BC Mosaic, yours looks like it could be a statchyburyi...would need closer pics. Very nice!!

[BC Mosaic]

Myka, I googled "Goniopora Stutchburyi" and I don't think its a match with what I got.
Here is a photo I just took with a tripod and the actinics and metal halides are on and no water movement:


I haven't highjacked your thread have I?

[Myka]

No, you haven't hijacked it at all. This is a thread to discuss Goniopora! Is that as long as the tentacles on yours get?

Take a look here, and see if you can identify it if you want: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2005/10/aafeature2

Originally Posted by BC Mosaic

Myka, I googled "Goniopora Stutchburyi" and I don't think its a match with what I got.
Here is a photo I just took with a tripod and the actinics and metal halides are on and no water movement:

I haven't highjacked your thread have I?

[BC Mosaic]

Myka,
Looking at that link there are two that have half the qualities each to make a match, G. Palmensis and the G. Somalienis (SOMe ALIENis).
Here again are another batch of just taken photos.

This one is a close (r) up shot under actinic & MH + Moon


Under actinics & moon


Just under Moon


Another under just moon


Under actinics and water blown by turkey baster (gently)


Under actinic & MH. The ribbed pink trails are what glows like magna/lava


Starting to peak out


Same


If we can't figure out which it is then I'd like to call it "SOM ALIEN ".

[Myka]

Originally Posted by BC Mosaic

Myka,
Looking at that link there are two that have half the qualities each to make a match, G. Palmensis and the G. Somalienis (SOMe ALIENis).
Here again are another batch of just taken photos.

If we can't figure out which it is then I'd like to call it "SOM ALIEN ".

Ya, I was thinking the same thing as you. There isn't much info on identifying the species online, but there are a couple different times that I have read that it is often impossible for the average aquarist to pinpoint the specie. So, SOM ALIEN it is!!!

[Samw]

Here's my red flowerpot. I've had it 1 year and 3 months. So far it has been one of the easier corals in my tank that has survived some serious issues in my tank where I lost a significant number of other corals.

[BC Mosaic]

Very, very nice.
One of my favorite.
Lucky us, eh?

[loveless]

I have one of the large green goniaporas, so far about a year and a half. I spot feed it dried cyclopeeze mixed with water maybe once every two weeks with a test kit syringe. It hasnt grown much bigger since I aquaired it but it has spawned off a few babies. I dont think this is a hard coral to keep one just has to have a little responsibility with the feeding is all. There used to be a dedicated site for gonias but it has since gone away.