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Kevin 
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Posted: March 02 2004 at 5:28pm |
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I was just wondering everyones experiece with the Orange or Red Gorgonians? How difficult are they to keep and what do they need to do well? Is feeding them daily with micro sized fish food going to keep them happy?
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Will Spencer
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Posted: March 02 2004 at 5:37pm |
I've got a yellow that is doing great. I don't know about special food, but I feed my tank Cyclopeze occasionally and it seems to react well to them. I also use Combovital and everything seems to like that as well, but I don't feed the Gorgonia anything directly.
If you have MH lighting you may want to keep it under a ledge. Other than that mine's seems to be doing great with no special help.
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Posted: March 02 2004 at 11:11pm |
They seem to do well if feed EVERY day.
You can feed them almost anything. Brine Shrimp, Flake Food, etc.
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Posted: March 03 2004 at 5:34pm |
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I have a red that is doing great! I feed it a little cyclopeeze every day. I keep it on the bottom of the tank. I only have PC lighting. It is as happy as my clam!
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Posted: March 04 2004 at 2:26pm |
We have a red one with white polyp but haven't seen any polyps out for months. Is it too late for it? What can we do to help it?
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Jake Pehrson
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Posted: March 04 2004 at 2:32pm |
Jared,
Try increasing the water flow.
This will usually encourage them to expand their polyps.
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: March 05 2004 at 5:44pm |
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I have some food from Brine Shrimp Direct that is great for these Gorgonia, Golden Pearls and frozen Daphnia. Not all of it sold at the meeting. Call or PM if interested.
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Posted: March 13 2004 at 11:10am |
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The gorgonia frag we got from Mark at January's meeting is starting a new nodule. It really seems to like Golden Pearls. Just thought I'd let you know! I'm not sure what color to call it. It's sort of a burgundy.
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