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Over the past week I came across a website which experimented with the possible causes for the failures of goniopora corals in captivity. They studied the specimens at the Waikiki aquarium and found that the thriving colony in the aquarium began to fail when put into another closed aquarium. They add no plankton and used well water (there still maybe plankton already in the tank though). The author of the article finally decided to conduct some of his own experiments on the blue gonioporas which very often arrive to stores in poor condition. He hypothesided that gonioporas suffer greatly from some oxidative process that is brought about by stress and damage that the coral revieces. To test his hypothesis, he added iron and magnesium supplements to the warter and notice that his gonioporas fully opened up. Whent he iron and magnesium decreased in concentration, the gonioporas again shrunk and exhibited poor polyp extension. When continuing to add the supplements, he found that the coral remaind healthy and extended ever since. To test this study I purchased a partially failing colony from a local fish store for very cheap.(Goniopora stoski) something like that. Well as usual the colony remained closed in my tank for several days. I then began to add the iron and meagnesium supplements and witin the next 24 hours the colony exhibited much improoved extension. Continuing to keep the levesl high, the colony seems to be recovering. I believe that one of the largest reasons for the failure of goniopora colonies in captivity is that they are introduced into tanks with very little iron and magnesium concentrations. Feeding gonioporas also seems to help. For those who have had long term success, there is probbalby some source of iron and magnesium or they already add the two unknowingly helping the goniopora. Just some experiment results for the infamously failing goniopora.
Over the past week I came across a website which experimented with the possible causes for the failures of goniopora corals in captivity. They studied the specimens at the Waikiki aquarium and found that the thriving colony in the aquarium began to fail when put into another closed aquarium. They add no plankton and used well water (there still maybe plankton already in the tank though). The author of the article finally decided to conduct some of his own experiments on the blue gonioporas which very often arrive to stores in poor condition. He hypothesided that gonioporas suffer greatly from some oxidative process that is brought about by stress and damage that the coral revieces. To test his hypothesis, he added iron and magnesium supplements to the warter and notice that his gonioporas fully opened up. Whent he iron and magnesium decreased in concentration, the gonioporas again shrunk and exhibited poor polyp extension. When continuing to add the supplements, he found that the coral remaind healthy and extended ever since. To test this study I purchased a partially failing colony from a local fish store for very cheap.(Goniopora stoski) something like that. Well as usual the colony remained closed in my tank for several days. I then began to add the iron and meagnesium supplements and witin the next 24 hours the colony exhibited much improoved extension. Continuing to keep the levesl high, the colony seems to be recovering. I believe that one of the largest reasons for the failure of goniopora colonies in captivity is that they are introduced into tanks with very little iron and magnesium concentrations. Feeding gonioporas also seems to help. For those who have had long term success, there is probbalby some source of iron and magnesium or they already add the two unknowingly helping the goniopora. Just some experiment results for the infamously failing goniopora.
