blueberry gorgonian tips??

[reefwars]

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]

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]

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.

[reefwars]

very difficult but i wouldnt say impossible , there are people on the nps section of rc that are having success granted its not 10 years but its better then a month or 2:P



tonight it gets its "permanent....if im lucky enogh to call it that" spot in my tank and off the shelf as i fear film algae will get it if i dont, so its going down with my suncorals in the dark.



the polyps are getting bigger with each day in my tank, when i recieved the frag some of the ends were stripped down to the root so im gonna cut it back and see if it heals:P

[naesco]

Impossible, unless you feed phytoplankton to the point that the water constantly has a greenish tinge to it
This is one species that should not be imported because they end up dying in reefers tanks.

[sumpfinfishe]

Impossible, unless you feed phytoplankton to the point that the water constantly has a greenish tinge to it
This is one species that should not be imported because they end up dying in reefers tanks.

a perfect reply to this thread!

[daniella3d]

Sure, dream on

Unless you have a dedicated NP tank with constant feeding it is impossible to keep beside a few months. Even if you have a NP tank with dedicated feeding it won't thrive, it will just maybe survive.

Never heard of anyone keeping it more than 2 years.

Do you even have a NP tank with constant feeding? if you do then you cen keep it for a while if you don't then how can you even expect to keep it long term? impossible.

Originally Posted by reefwars

very difficult but i wouldnt say impossible , there are people on the nps section of rc that are having success granted its not 10 years but its better then a month or 2:P



tonight it gets its "permanent....if im lucky enogh to call it that" spot in my tank and off the shelf as i fear film algae will get it if i dont, so its going down with my suncorals in the dark.



the polyps are getting bigger with each day in my tank, when i recieved the frag some of the ends were stripped down to the root so im gonna cut it back and see if it heals:P

[Jaws]

I just stumbled across this thread while doing a random search for phytoplankton but I wonder if there's any hope for this coral if it was removed from the display tank, how often I'm not sure, and maybe floated upside down or placed in a phytoplankton culture for a period of time? I've seen this coral respond to nutrients very well whenever food is added to a tank so I wonder how it would respond in this environment. I've heard of sun corals responding well to this method too but they're not as easily removed from the tank as a gorgonian would be. Again, not sure it would make a lot of sense if you had to do it daily but maybe a concentrated culture would be enought to keep it healthy if it responded once or twice a week. Any open minded opinions on this?

[reefwars]

Mine is still alive it takes cyclopeeze but is fed mostly fauna Marin sea fan and ultra clam.it hasn't grown any and didn't like acclimating to my tank had thought I was gonna lose it but its alive Ans well