Oh geez, what have I done?

[rynon]

I just paid a crazy amount for a Goniastrea palauensis which is from australia, meaning expensive!!!!! At least it's unique and has potential, I've been watching it for weeks on Live Aquaria and it must have remained healthy or they won't ship or post. It's mostly green but from the pictures appears to have purple trying to grow down the corallites into the "mouths" of the coral. Oh geez, tell me I haven't done something insane! AIMS says uncommon, I work at a LFS and have not seen one before so I assume they're correct. Post if you have pictures please. Thanks!

[akindbro4u]

what do you consider a crazy amount?

[skippy2]

Ryan, I just looked them up. HOLY COW!!! You are a braver soul than me :)

[Hormigaquatica]

Im not sure I would call G. palauensis rare- its not around quite as often as other Faviids, but its a coral I still see pretty regularly.

In me experience, they are easy corals to keep- no unusual requirements. I tried to look for the photo of your individual, but its already gone. Post up once you get it!

[chrissreef]

how much? i have 5 400+ corals =/

shhhh, wife thinks they're 100!

[lawboy888]

i just bought a wilsoni for 700 :( but very very nice :)

[rynon]

$150, plus shipping. I will post a picture when I get it, thanks for the kind words.

[Cultivatedcoral]

Goniastrea Palauensis have been coming in regularly from Australia. I'm not going to comment on price since I am a sponsor here but the ones we get in are crazy, nuclear green. I mean the brightest coral we have ever put in our tanks. I really mean this thing glows while still in the bag, in the dark. haha.

Truly a really nice coral and I am not kidding about how bright they are. Good luck.

Nick DeBellis
www.cultivatedcoral.com
Cultivated Coral Inc.

[rynon]

Thanks, gives me some hope. It is from Australia which I'm sure added $50 to the price tag. In my tank things tend to get brighter colored, not sure why? I have a favites that was green and brown and it's now neon green and almost yellow.

[rynon]

Well here's a picture of the coral while it was acclimating, it's doing very well after a couple days, I was worried about brown jelly.....I've had issues with that with new brain corals for a certain supplier, not this supplier. It has potential and after some time in my tank I believe this coral will really start to gain some great color. One issue, not a issue yet but could be, it won't put it's tentacles out at night, not sure why but I'll try introducing some food "juice" to see if it wakes up.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s7/RyanSc_photos/IMG_2526.jpg

[Flavum]

That is bad ***.

[rynon]

Good I'm glad you think so, it was pricey enough :)

Thank you!

[seapug]

very nice. post some pics once you get it in the tank.

[rynon]

I'm going to be an uncle within the hour, after 3 days of trying to get my sister in law to have "natural birth" they're doing a C-section, they couldn't get the baby to "give it up" so the camera is obviously not with me right now, in fact I shouldn't be here right now. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

[kev apsley]

it's off the hook! very nice!

[Flpimpn]

Congrats on becoming an uncle! Can't wait to see those pics... the coral not the new born ;)

[rynon]

Here's a in tank picture. It's not feeding yet as far as I can tell, that worries me slightly but it's not receding at all.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s7/RyanSc_photos/IMG_2539.jpg

[Reef banditz]

i thought they were about 300-400? how big of a piece is that?

[akindbro4u]

How is this guy doing. Is it feeding yet?

[rynon]

How big is it? I would say the size of a baseball. It is feeding now, it just started putting it's tentacles out the other day, still looks great.