help me pick a gorgonian

[reg828]

i am interested in buying a gorgonian. your thought? are these all photosynthetic and which ones are pretty and easy to take care?


http://www.marinedepotlive.com/corals--gorgonia.html:eek2:

[reg828]

http://www.marinedepotlive.com/corals--gorgonia.html

[reg828]

anyone?

[dela]

The purple ribbon and briarium are easy to keep if they are what I'm thinking. The others I don't know much about. I know some of these others are asily killed/smothered by nuisance algae.

[Fade]

I kept a green lace for about a year . The problem with them is they are hard to attatch and they dont like to be touched. Mine kept falling over and the more I messed with it the worst it did.

[reg828]

bump. more?

[polypdude]

Stay away from gorg that have a yellow rind red or white polyps they are not photosynthetic and can be very hard to supply enough food for. I think most of the photosynthetic one have brown polyps. I have one that has a purple rind with brown polyps been growing nicely for over a year. I drilled a small hole in a piece of rock and epoxied it into the hole. the rind of the gorg has now kind of grown out onto the rock. Not sure what the name of it is just know that it is a gorg of some sort.

[John Hartford]

I have had fairly good luck with the purple one

[smiller]

2, 3 and 5 are all easy to keep. Stay away from 1 and 4. They like plenty of flow, alternating if possible.