Diodogorgia nodulifera

[leew]

Hi,

I ahve one of these gorgs and was wondering if it needs feeding with particile foods or does it need light?


Lee

[KeithM]

Beautiful corals - they rely 100% on food capture and do not require any light at all. They also require medium flow to be able to capture food and to be able to shed their skins. high light levels and low flow can often lead to algae growth on these seafans.

Fortunately, these seafans are slightly easier to keep than other azoox seafan because their polyps are quite large and they are able to capture quite large food particles.

IME they do best with multiple feedings (minimum 3-5 feeds per day) when their polyps are out. You must feed enough so that the seafan can capture the food from the water column.

I use a range of zooplankton base foods such as Ultraseafan, UltraminF, Coral Frenzy, Reefroids, Golden pearls, Frozen cyclops and I am now also trialling some foods Tropic Marin and Timo. However, out of all these foods, I feel that frozen cyclops is the best for D. nodulifera.

Don't forget, with such high levels of feeding you MUST make sure you have very good filtration. IMHO, Food and Feeding is secondary to water quality!

[leew]

Thanks

Will buy some products for this.

Lee

[KeithM]

Post up a photo when you can!

Do you have the red morph or the yellow morph?

One last tip - inspect for any brittle star fish on the branches. They sometimes attach on and steal food from the polyps...eventually where they hold onto gets very thin. They need to be removed!

[rich_tilbury]

Just to add I thought I was doing well with one of these, but it has recently gone down hill (could be due to anything, but I feed mostly plankton sized feeds to the fish and corals many times a day.

I'm interested in Keith's experience in this with his wider range of foods, but thse corals don't seem to do well past a year, which I've seen echoed in a number of texts by the likes of Shimek and Bourneman.

I have the yellow morph. I suspect that there is something missing from the concoction I'm feeding! :)

[dendro982RC]

Cyclop-eeze (~800 micron) or smaller zooplankton, few to several times a day, enough for each mouth to catch several pieces. Flow - strong enough, up to starting to bend polyps.

Try not to change alkalinity drastically at once - it may close for a week.

That's all, IMHE :)

[Wee-Man]

Cyclop-eeze (~800 micron) or smaller zooplankton, few to several times a day, enough for each mouth to catch several pieces. Flow - strong enough, up to starting to bend polyps.

Try not to change alkalinity drastically at once - it may close for a week.

That's all, IMHE :)


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