Encrusting Gorgonian!

[MontanaRocknReefer]

My wife had this coral in her tank and it started to fade away and gave it to me to see what would happen and happy to report it is making a great comeback:

[MontanaRocknReefer]

And this pic is a little mini-star and have heard some can be bad but they have not bothered any of my corals so thought I would show the pic for those who have not seen them yet or wondered what they were!

[Casey]

Good pics Johnny I love those stars

[Geoff]

i could not kill that stuff, literally. a little bit of it survived my heater outage for a week at 55F! and to make it worse, i was actually trying to kill it off because of the new tank being SPS so let stay in the old tank with really bad water quality for several months. i finally gave in, because i wife wanted that tank taken down NOW!! it encrusted close to 80% of the directly lighted surface of my LR in the 55g. it is really neat stuff, but boy can it get to be a pain. it will spread fast. it seems to go nuts a couple of times a year.

G~

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Hey Geoff! I do agree with you on the growth rate. It show looks neat in the strong current!

[dark horge]

Don't know what gorg that is, nor what star you have on the glass,
but they sure look like they have no complaints, Johnny

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Dark Horge I believe the encrusting gorgonian is Erythropodium caribaeorum according to Eric Borneman's book Aquarium Corals!