The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

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I think goniapora is a coral too far. Many super-serious reefers can't keep them alive. Their diet leads to
fouled water I THINK is the knock. Many are sold, few survive. But don't take my word for it, nevr had one.
I WOULD SAY though that if you are going to get one, let me send you a frag of this purple gorgonian.
That Goniapora is going to want to eat, and it can be bad for your tank in some ways. If you have a good
overflow system, most of the food is going to go into the sump/skimmer. You need something with a LOT of
polyps to capture the food that the gonio can't eat. Like a lot of palythoa or other sea mat type organisms.
The Goniopora will want enough cyclopeze to survive, and it can foul a tank up if it's the only coral feeding
in that manner. I guess you could turn the pumps off and target feed. I have so many polyps with tentacles
in my little 20 gallon, the cyclopeze disappears in minutes.