Blue polyped gorgonian

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Tony,

Your beautiful collection of gorgonians helped convince me to get another one. Purple with purple polyps. Hope it's at least partially photosynthetic but it may not be. Looks like a sea rod though.

Would love to find more photosynthetic gorgonians. Have corky finger but would love to find colourful ones.

Anthony

[Delphinus]

Thanks Anthony! Your purple gorg is AMAZING and it's in perfect condition.

I hope we can trade frags one day

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yeah, it opened up with full polyps in less than an hour after going into my tank.

[rusty]

I think its time to come to Calgary agian... Its tank raiding time!!!

[danny zubot]

I haven't seen the new one in person yet but the others are much nicer in person, as most corals usually are.

Its funny Tony, gorgonians are the exact thing I seem to be missing from my tank. Hmmm, time for a trade?

[Delphinus]

Unfortunately I've given it away. It looked great for about a week and then started a very quick decline. Wouldn't open, wouldn't feed, spots of recession. I'm not sure if it's too late to save it anyhow, time will tell, but I'm convinced that keeping it would have meant it was toast for sure.

Its twin (ie. same type of coral that came in on the same shipment) was still at the store last time I looked (a couple days ago) and that one was doing considerably better, so it's just something about my tank that it didn't like.

I kinda broke a rule I had made for myself by buying a non-photosynthetic gorgonian anyhow and sorta feel like I got the smack down as a result. There are a few species that I know to be photosynthetic that I'm always on the lookout for, but they just don't seem to come in to the stores out this way. So when a gorg of any kind shows up at a store I get excited and this one, well I thought it had a chance of being photosynthetic but I realized quickly when I got it home that it likely wasn't. (Telling apart photosynthetic versus non-photosynthetic is supposeldy fairly simple - zooxanthellae is brown, so the polyps are brown. At the store these looked kinda dull in colour so I thought that counted as brown. At home under my 10k's plus actinics the polyps just glowed.)

[danny zubot]

Thats too bad Tony.

This confused me a bit.

(Telling apart photosynthetic versus non-photosynthetic is supposeldy fairly simple - zooxanthellae is brown, so the polyps are brown

Photo is brown, so if the gorg. polyps are brown it should be photo? And if they are say blue it is non-photo? Is that what you meant?