Red Finger Gorgoian from TB

[diverrk]

Just checking to see who got a Red Gorgonian from the TB group buy. The polyps on mine have yet to come out, day or night. Anyone else who has one, do you have the same problem ?

 

[panmanmatt]

Are you feeding it? The red finger gorgs are non-photosynthetic and need to be fed daily. Adding foods tot he water should stimulate it's polyps to come out.

 

[JRWOHLER]

I got two ribbon gorgonians I asked this in the thread before.  One was Bright Purple  and the other one was greyish...was wondering if this was a normal reaction like a slime coat?  Also I saw some flesh came off a finger of the greyish one(small amount maybe damaged).  Have seen polyps on both though.

 

[panmanmatt]

The purple ribbon gorgs are photosynthetic. They like to be fed also, but they also feed off the light.

 

[eholceker]

The grey is normal on the purple ribbons. They shed pretty often once algea builds up on them. they grow very quick. Mine like to be blasted by flow and are directly in front of my powerheads. Without a lot of flow the polyps will not extend all the time. good luck.

 

[JRWOHLER]

The grey is normal on the purple ribbons. They shed pretty often once algea builds up on them. they grow very quick. Mine like to be blasted by flow and are directly in front of my powerheads. Without a lot of flow the polyps will not extend all the time. good luck.

Thanks a bunch. I feed my tank occasionally so that part I knew...it was the greyishness that bothered me and wasn't sure if my almost direct/direct placement would be a problem. I had a yellow before that I got to much algae on didn't want that to happen again.

 

[diverrk]

Yeh I feed the tank with DT's Phyto. My Blueberry Gorg is non-photo it opens all the time. Any other suggestions to feed it ?

 

[panmanmatt]

Frozen cyclop-eze, decapsulated artemia cysts, frozen or live artemia and rotifers. They need zooplankton along with the phytoplankton.

 

[diverrk]

Thanks

 

[diverrk]

Ahh a little Coral Frenzy got it opening ! ;D