How do you preserve gorgonian?
Photosynthetic gorgonians love light, so be sure to place them in an area of your tank where they will be under moderate to high lighting for several hours a day. Most gorgonians prefer to be placed upright, freestanding, and secured to a rock.
What do you feed a gorgonian?
Oyster-Feast™, a concentrate of oyster eggs and ovarian tissue, provides extraordinary nutritional value in a gorgonian food. It will provoke a hardy feeding response in sea fans and offers excellent nutritional value.
What do gorgonian coral eat?
Gorgonians use their fine tentacles and stocky mucus to capture phytoplankton. Some, such as Diodogorgia, must capture all of their food for a living. While most if not all gorgonians rely upon phytoplankton and tiny zooplankton for their food, a few are additionally capable of harboring zooxanthellae.
Do gorgonians grow fast?
These beautiful featherlike gorgonians grow very rapidly under good conditions. They are usually some shade of purple, but yellow varieties are also available. Polyps are generally cream-colored or brown.
Do gorgonians like high flow?
Gorgonians tend to live in moderate-to-high flow areas on the reef. It will not be a surprise to you then, to conclude that they will do best, in the home aquarium, in moderate-to-high water flow areas.
Are gorgonians aggressive?
It is thought but never proven Gorgonia may be more aggressive chemically than some other corals. Allot of people have issues and like to blame something and sometimes things get passed down that is not true.
Are Gorgonians aggressive?
What type of coral is a gorgonian?
soft coral
A Gorgonian is a soft coral with small polyps. These corals actually have two types of polyps. The autozooid polyps function to consume plankton from the water. The siphonozooid polyps also have an oral cavity, but they consume water which supplies necessary oxygen to the Gorgonian.