Pink Goniopora
Goniopora sp.
Beautiful Flowerpot Coral with long, flowing pink polyps. Offers incredible movement for your reef tank. Requires target feeding and space from neighbors.
- Lighting
- Medium
- Flow
- Medium
- Placement
- Bottom to middle of tank, on sand bed or low rocks
- Temperament
- Aggressive (It has long sweeper tentacles that can sting neighboring corals)
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Care guide
Keeping Goniopora in a reef tank
Goniopora earned a difficult reputation from decades of wild-collected colonies that starved slowly in clean tanks. Aquacultured stock is a different animal, but the underlying requirement has not changed: this genus needs a reliably fed system with real nutrients present rather than an ultra-low-nutrient one.
Lighting for Pink Goniopora
Moderate light. The long daisy-like polyps extend furthest under middling intensity, and full extension is the main thing you are optimising for — a Goniopora that stays half-open is not thriving regardless of how good the numbers look. This particular frag is rated for medium light — roughly 100–200 PAR, around the middle of the rockwork.
Water flow
Gentle, indirect flow. The polyps are long and soft, and any current strong enough to bend them over will keep the colony closed. Flow for this frag should be moderate and variable.
Placement and tank mates
Bottom to middle of tank, on sand bed or low rocks. Aggressive (It has long sweeper tentacles that can sting neighboring corals).
What to watch for
Polyp extension is the diagnostic worth tracking daily; a colony that closes up and stays closed is usually reacting to nutrients that have been stripped too low, or to a neighbour within stinging range. Give it a wide berth from anything aggressive.
