jlanger's Reef Build: Episode II - The 120gal Strikes Back (1 Viewer)

[jlanger]

Tank is looking amazing Jason! And I appreciate you uploading the video in 4k. Makes it that much better!

Any tricks/quirks you've learned with goni's throughout your time with them in this tank?

Goni tips??? Avoid bacterial pathogens! Battling disease in goniopora is a long tough road when you have a lot of them.

 

[Fishfoo]

Goni tips??? Avoid bacterial pathogens! Battling disease in goniopora is a long tough road when you have a lot of them.

How does one avoid them? UV sterilizer? Probiotics (seems to be all the rage for acros right now)?

 

[jlanger]

How does one avoid them? UV sterilizer? Probiotics (seems to be all the rage for acros right now)?

Buy from a reputable source and DO NOT ACCEPT A FREE HAMMER FRAG!!!!

 

[Jposch]

Buy from a reputable source and DO NOT ACCEPT A FREE HAMMER FRAG!!!!

100% all these places offering free hammers and torches over like $100 order....either very poor quality coral, or just fools. Likely both.
I dint mess with antibiotics, but I do dip any wild (mariculture too) coral, especially, in antiseptics multple times for weeks in a QT. As well as run UV, Ozone and peroxide dosing. It's overkill, but I have never felt rhe need to dose my systems with ciproflaxin or whatever antibiotic remaining that is actually effective and pathogens don't have resistance to..yet.

 

[jlanger]

I spent some long overdue time taking some photos of my reef yesterday.
As previously stated, not much has changed on my system this past year; some CaRx maintenance and upgrades, a lot of nutrient testing and even more of just letting the coral grow.
So here's a photo dump of many of the montipora and goniopora corals in my reef; and one of the newest fish and one photo from the right end of the tank.

The Montipora.

Red M. foliosa, Green M. digitata and Nauti Spiral Montipora.




Bubblegum M. digitata, Grafted Montipora and Green M. digitata.




Grafted Montipora amongst Idaho Grape Montipora.




German Blue M. digitata.




German Blue Polyp M. digtata.




Orange M. setosa.




Jedi Mind Trick Montipora.

 

[jlanger]

The Goniopora.

The upper shelf of the Goni Garden.




The NWA "Glitter???" Goniopora.




BSA 24K Gold Goniopora; macro.





BSA Blueberry Goniopora; macro.




BSA Green Goblin Goniopora; macro.




My "Blue" Goniopora; macro.




Yellow Star Goniopora; macro.




The BSA Blueberry Goniopora.



NWA Inferno Goniopora.




NWA Rainbow Goniopora.
I'm trying to get Ted to name this coral the Lemon Strawberry Starburst Goniopora.




NWA Two In The Pink Goniopora.

 

[jlanger]

The Desjardini Sailfin Tang is doing very well. It's quick fish but I was able to capture it while it buzzed by the corals.




Finally, the view from the right end of the tank.

 

[reef junkie]

What a great Goni garden!!

 

[Chris Goetz]

Beautiful!!!

 

[BlindSwordsman]

I just drove over there and back. It's a beautiful tank of course! Beautiful art works as well. You are very talented. And yes, @jlanger, you need a bigger tank. I'll support you .. in spirit! .. And thank you for the monti!

 

[jlanger]

Since the NPS corals were not awake during yesterday's photoshoot, I took a few pictures of them tonight.
These corals do well in may reef since I have mounted them where the water flow brings them bits of food every time I feed the fish. The corals will open up shortly after I dip in the cup to collect water for thawing the frozen foods. The corals are producing more and more polyps and are quite chunky themselves. The Fat Head Dendro (last two pics) was a single polyp but there's nine of them now and counting.

Tubastraea sp.



Dendrophyllia sp.



Fat Head Dendrophyllia.

 

[Fishfoo]

Awesome pictures Jason. Especially the side tank shot and the dendros. You are the monti/Goni/dendro whisperer

 

[jlanger]

A quick update.
Everything has been running with little issue for another month or so. I replanted the Goni Garden recently to allow the corals to settle in and grow out. I believe that I've run out of room. But I also believe that I'm not done looking for new color morphs which may require a thinning or rehoming of corals already in the reef. (The same goes for montipora corals. I'm still looking for more unique and OG species; still waiting for a M. spongodes!)

Here's a quick video tour of the replanted Goni Garden.

 

[Fishfoo]

Beautiful! Do you have a top 5 for gonis you currently have?

 

[jlanger]

Beautiful! Do you have a top 5 for gonis you currently have?

Thanks!
If I have to choose five, it would be the unnamed yellow/rainbow one from NWA, the NWA Two In The Pink, the Tiffany, the Siren and the NWA "Glitter" Gonioporas.
All of the ones from BSA are really cool as well. After a few of months in my reef, the bubble tentacles on the polyps of a couple of them have elongated to a more typical goniopora look; like RBTAs do.

 

[Fishfoo]

Very interesting/cool to hear that most of your favs are from new wave. They do have some nice goni’s

 

[MistakesWereMade]

new wave

TIL that NWA is new wave.

 

[H2OHOH]

I’ve started adding some Goni s as well. Cool colors and movement. I have a pink one and green one. This tank got me interested in them

The street names are Pink Panther Holy Grail Goni and the the OGOG or also called the OG Oscar the Grouch Goni.

Frag swaps coming, get your C-notes ready

 

[jlanger]

Just throwing out this photo from tonight to slow down the Spring Expo Pre-Sales shoppers. Enjoy.

 

[spsick]

Sheesh! How much alk does that Monti skeleton consume??