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Liven Up Your Aquatic Garden with our Online Goniopora Coral Frags

Goniopora is another LPS coral species with polyps that mimic the morphology of flowering plants, with stalks and oral discs rimmed with feeding tentacles that resemble petals. Indeed, one of several common names for this coral species is flowerpot coral and it’s an easy comparison. Whether it is an apt comparison or not, it’s a vivid illustration of the success of this model for gathering/trapping/receiving energy in the land and the sea and in this case, an especially lovely one. Our Goniopora coral frags are available in a vivid array of different colors from greens to reds to purples and other colors, as well.

Goniopora Coral Care Guide

Experience Level

Goniopora can be pretty persnickety about lighting and flow, so we don’t recommend this coral species for coralheads in the early stages of their reefkeeping careers but if you have stable water chemistry parameters and have success with other LPS species, you may be ready to take on this challenge. Given how stunning a colony of healthy Goniopora polyps look in any reef display, this challenge is well worth taking on!

Optimal Water Quality Parameters

  • Temperature: 72-78F, 22-25C
  • pH: 8.1-8.3
  • dKH: 7-11 (125-200ppm CaCO3 equivalent)
  • Calcium: 375-450ppm
  • Magnesium: 1275-1350ppm
  • Salinity: 35ppt
  • Ammonia (NH3): less than 0.1ppm
  • Nitrite (NO2): less than 0.2ppm
  • Nitrate (NO3): less than 0.2ppm
  • Phosphates (PO4): less than 0.03ppm

Lighting Preferences:

Flowerpot coral frags can thrive under most lighting conditions from the intense lighting at the top of your reef to the somewhat muted tones halfway down or deeper. Much will depend on the type of lighting on your display. As always, start your Goniopora lower in the water column than your planned final placement, let the zooxanthellae adjust to the lighting and then slowly adjust to higher lighting over time.

Water Flow Preferences:

Your new Goniopora coral frag(s) will prefer medium, shifting, laminar flows. Don’t expect full polyp extension right away, as it is a somewhat temperamental coral species, but patiently observe how and if the flows animate the polyps back and forth. This is a coral that will always tell you how happy it is with the lighting, flow and water chemistry through polyp extension.

Placement Considerations:

Despite its pretty appearance, Goniopora is a very aggressive coral species, with mesentery filaments that can and will extend well outside the range of the colony. These sweeper tentacles pack quite a punch; so make sure that everything you want to keep happy and healthy is well away from this colony.

Feeding Considerations:

Like nearly all LPS species, Goniopora gets most of what it needs from its photosynthetic zooxanthellae but will respond well to supplementary feedings of appropriately sized coral foods once or twice a week.

Stunning Goniopora Frags for Sale Online from CoralFrags.com

If you can’t resist the thought of one or more thriving, healthy colonies of Goniopora in your reef display, we totally get it. We’re especially fond of this species, too. With the Goniopora coral care guide, the other resources on this site and your attention to detail in the health of your life support system and corals, you, too, can have a gorgeous colony of flowerpot corals in your reef. Please browse our selection of Goniopora frags and buy with confidence, as we go above and beyond to ensure that only healthy, clean coral frags arrive in our customers’ tanks. Thanks for looking!

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