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03-15-2008, 09:34 PM
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It's a Gorgonia. They are filter feeders, typically difficult to keep due to the demand for free floating food. Kinda the opposite of what we like to have in our aquariums
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03-15-2008, 09:37 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rio Linda, California
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should be a crime for our LFS to lie | |
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03-15-2008, 09:51 PM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rio Linda, California
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should I remove it/sell it / return it ? geeezzz WTF.. cant tell the players without a program...its make'n my head hurt. I just want calm stuff here.....why am I told the other end...duh...Its ALL a sales pitch from here on...I'm sure. I must learn or throw my $ to the wind...
standing buy$ thanx again youz guyz an' galz..
I will make it work...with a little help from my friends. : )
Tim
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03-15-2008, 10:09 PM
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There are people who have had success with Gorgonia. Try feeding zooplankton or frozen cyclope eeze.
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03-15-2008, 10:17 PM
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| | Montipora Digitata
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 24
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IF you decide to get rid of it check with your LFS and see if they will take it back for credit. Unless you are experienced and know a LFS you can TRUST GREATLY do your research and only buy things that you know up and down. No biggy, lesson learned, right? _________ 55 gallon reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, False Percula Clown & Foxface, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast Born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video
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03-15-2008, 11:02 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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This gorgonian is actually a cold water variety. It needs low light. It will extend beautiful white polyps at that point spray a bit of frozen cyclopeeze in around the coral but not at it...Good Luck...  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
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Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
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Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
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03-17-2008, 06:29 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 39
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I would definitely return it. If you take a look at the stalks, two of them are already missing flesh so it probably won't last much longer  | |
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03-17-2008, 07:58 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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The type of gorgonian that you have is called Diodogorgia nodulifera(colorful sea rod)! They are from deep reef biotopes growing in overhangs and cave openings where subdued light is associated. They are aposymbiotic, meaning they do not contain zooxanthellae, and therefore do not require light to survive.
They do need to be fed food such as noted in previous posts. Cyclops, rotifers, marine snow and zooplankton are excellent food sources to help ensure that it is eating and receiving beneficial nutrients.
This type of gorgonian is one of the most beautiful, most popular in the aquarium trade and most difficult to maintain, unfortunately.
Often, the demise of this gorgeous gorgonian is due to poor feeding habits.
I would try to return it but if you can't or want to try your luck with keeping this gorgonian, I would break of(remove) the dead parts of the gorgonian to give it a better chance of survival. Gorgonians can be fragged like stony corals where you just break off a piece and secure it to a piece of rock. Again, this species of gorgonian is difficult to keep, but with proper feeding it is possible!
Good luck! _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Cerianthid Stars Hermits snails Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria Kenyon Tree Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa)
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