What to Feed Sea Whip?

[tahoe ocean]

I just got great info and help from the people at my other thread on my ailing purple gorgonian/sea whip, but I was wondering what everyone feeds.
I looked for Golden pearls but the only place I found them is out and won't have them back in stock for a month.
Help me save him! Tell me what to feed him!

 

[dburr]

Have you tried DT's pytoplankton?
Sometimes I mix salt water with seachems reef plus and fish flake food that I pulverize. I use a turkey baster to spot feed.
HTH

 

[tahoe ocean]

I haven't found a local or even close palce to get DT's.
I already have reef plus and tank feed but will try spot feeding with pulverized frozen food (formula1). Thank you.

 

[spsfreak100]

If this is the same one in the other thread, with the white polyps, it's not a Sea whip. Sea whips are photosynthic (they have zooxanthellae), and have tan/brown polyps. Non photosynthic gorgonians usually have blue, white, clear, yellow, red, etc.
You would be best off feeding it DT's phytoplankton and Golden Pearls
Graham

 

[tahoe ocean]

anybody know a good place to get DT's shipped? On ice or no?
Or where to get golden pearls?
Or any fish stores in No. Calif. to drive to between Tahoe and San Francisco?
Ok, So I do have a gorgonian then. I was confuzzd sorry.

 

[spsfreak100]

Tahoe,
Are you clear that Sea Whips are a species of Gorgonian? By the way you said this: "Ok, So I do have a gorgonian then.," you sounded a bit confused on the concept of what was and what wasn't a gorgonian
Graham

 

[tahoe ocean]

ok, now much clearer! Maybe.
All sea whips are gorgonians but not all gorgonians are sea whips and I do not have a sea whip. But I have a gorgonian?
Any ideas if pulverized formula 1 mixed with seachem aminos and vit. will help until I get DT's?
Email me about where to get them please
BrattyJenn@charter.net
Thank you for your help and your patience.

 

[tahoe ocean]

ok, found a place that has golden pearls in stock but....
what size of microns?

 

[spsfreak100]

Originally posted by Tahoe Ocean
All sea whips are gorgonians but not all gorgonians are sea whips and I do not have a sea whip. But I have a gorgonian?

No.
A Sea Whip is a species of Gorgonian. For example: A Devils Hand leather is a species of Soft Coral. Gorgonains are not the same as cnadarians. You have a gorgonian, that's definitaly not a sea whip (because you say it has white polyps [which narrows down to that the gorgonian doesn't have zooxanthellae, sea whips {a different species of gorgonian} have zooxanthellae]).
In a nut shell, Sea Whips are Gorgonians, as Devils hands leathers are softies. It would be like saying 'You have a soft coral.' Does make sense?
Graham

 

[pbuck]

Forget about what kind of animal you have for now. I would suggest investing your hard earned money into a phytoplankton culturing station. You will save a lot of money in a few months with this culture station. I spent about $45 on the hardware and the live phyto and I have an unlimited supply of LIVE phytoplankton. go to florida-aqua-farms.com and look for the nano.... species of live microalgae. Flameangel's web page shows step by step how to culture phyto.

 

[dburr]

Either way, feed what you can. They will take anything you offer as long as it is small enough. The non-photosynthetic gargonians will need to be feed at least twice a week.
They are harder to keep (IMO) because they need more attention.
I had a couple, but they just wasted away after 6 months or so.
I had yellow fingers. Yellow w/ red spots and white polyps.
The purple ones I have had for more than three years, they were the fiirst corals I got.
HTH

 

[tahoe ocean]

thanks all! you've been emensely helpful here's the latest:
I moved him to an area with more current. I got the ph down to 8.4 at mid light cycle. I mixed the invert smorg, the seachem aminos and vitamins, and the frozen(thawed) form 1 in a mini blender and hit puree. Then I spot fed him with my pipette and the current off for 5 min. During the feed, the white polyps were out. It seems to have deepened a little in color, and there are no new spots of decay. I ordered golden pearls, and I am hoping to find DT's phytoplankton when I go out of town in 2 weeks. Until then I'm hoping he'll be stable.
Thanks again for all the help.
Jenn

 

[krux]

closer than sf, but off the beaten path, in chico there are a couple stores that stock dt's, i used to buy it at "pet's etc."
also there is a decent store in placerville, one in auburn, depending on what side of the lake you are on.

 

[tahoe ocean]

Live on south shore! will drive right through Placerville and in all would love to know where since we no longer have a store here. Placerville is only a 45 min drive. Email me if you like
BrattyJenn@charter.net
Would love to know any names of stores between here and SF