FF#36 | Keeping Gorgonians in your Reef Tank

Welcome to the thirty-sixth episode of Focus Friday, featuring my Red Sea Reefer tank. If you have any specific questions regarding this weeks subject or a Focus Friday video request, please leave a comment!
Giesemann Aurora - 4x80w T5 & 4x75W LED
Maxspect Gyre XF250 | Jecod DCT8000 & DCS3000
Octo Regal 150-S | JBL UV-c 36W | Teco TK500

[@AquaSplendor]

Great collection and video. I have 3 different Gorgonians like yours in mine. I love them a lot, a lot, but for some reason they are not as popular, often my LFS tell they don't order much because it doesn't sell well, which surprise me, they are a key to a beautiful tank. They give you verticality in a tank!

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks! Yeah it's weird right.. People go off on 200 USD scoly's and acans but refuse to pay 50-100 for a beautiful gorg.. Anyway good to hear you can appreciate it!

[@Justin89125]

What is that zebra looking fish 😮 that thing’s beautiful

[@dreamreefbeltran1495]

Your tank even look sweeter with that phone you're lucky man to have a aquarium that looks like that you're my idol LOL

[@dailycoral]

Great video about a really cool type of coral!! Love that yellow gorg... It's stunning!

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks! Yeah the yellow one is definitely the most beautiful one, just also the hardest to keep alive... :)

[@dailycoral]

@@DutchReefer That seems true for almost everything in our hobby!

[@Saltyaquarium]

Very nice and helpful video!

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks, good to hear that you found it helpful!

[@josephjankauskis5226]

Such a beautiful tank

[@photographyinflight4183]

DJI is also a Chinese brand, Great video. Cheers!

[@eddyortiz8110]

The new one is pretty and I don't know if it's my imagination but your video is so colorful makes the corals and fish so vivid!I noticed the high hat is getting real big.👌🌿💜💜

[@DutchReefer]

Haha it's mainly due to the fact that I'm using a new phone I guess! Yeah it's really growing fast!

[@rhombifer566]

Nice aquram

[@theamjadjamousable]

Beautiful tank .

[@nicucoco]

hi can you tel l me please whats the name of the striped black and white fist with high fin?

[@RogueAquariums]

Anton, your gorgonians look great. I added one to my 75 and it has really taken off. 👍

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks! Cool to hear, they are nice corals for sure!

[@melvin3997]

Your BEAUTIFUL aquarium gives me so much false hope😂. thanks for the information. My naso tang shredded my gorgonians. I see why now. Low flow, high light= algae=food.

[@thepassionreef]

Very beautiful indeed...love all the gorgs I love them too...

[@BorkPlays]

Beautiful tank mate!

[@DutchReefer]

Thank you Bork!

[@karennation3580]

Love gorgonians. All of yours fill in the spaces perfectly! I bought a small amount of live rock that had a beautiful cave and arch for my small 10 gallon and she gave me 2 small twigs of gorgonians that i put on some plugs and they have sprouted polpys and looking very pretty! Do you have any videos of your aqua scape before it filled in? I love how it is lifted and I am sure the fish love it to. I am putting up a new aquarium and would love to do my aqua scape similiar to yours!

[@tasanastasi7799]

Gorgeous Sir

[@kkrishna9791]

Planning to keep one soon

[@karennation3580]

Love gorgonian and your tank? What is that you are feeding with on the tank wall?

[@ericgafner7607]

I think he said it was this stuff: www.bulkreefsupply.com/masstick-fish-food-easy-reefs.html

[@mattwhittle9082]

The brown thick branch gorgonian is a corky finger

[@mr.brownplumbing]

Niiiiiihahahahahace

[@MrNixtt]

What is that gum food you had in your tank? I would like to know more about it 😊

[@DutchReefer]

Hi, that would be Masstick, a product by Easy Reefs!

[@shuwukong]

I looove your videos. That purple white gorgonian is gorgeous. What spectrum are you running on your leds? The color is just amazing

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks! Well the LED's are only Marine and Royal Blue LEDS, so a very blue spectrum. the light from the 4 ATI Coral Plus bulbs add enough "white" light to make it nicely balanced!

[@savenature2717]

hey Dutch Reefer. Je maakt leuke filmpjes en mooie beelden van jou aquarium. Gorgonen zijn lastig te onderscheiden of ze van licht leven of voedsel nodig hebben. Ook vind het het erg lastig om de verhalen van een verkoper te geloven als deze zegt dat ze makkelijk zijn om te houden in een aquarium. Nu is mijn vraag natuurlijk waar je de 2 paarse gorgonen vandaan hebt. Deze spreken mij erg aan en zou daar zeker stekken van willen aanschaffen . dus mocht je stekken hebben.. ik hou me aanbevolen

[@DutchReefer]

Hi! Klopt, dat is inderdaad lastig te zien en de LFS weet het vaak ook niet. Ik heb de meeste van deze gekocht bij Diebo in Nieuwegein, daar weten (zeker de oudgedienden) precies welke wel en niet fotosythetisch zijn! Ik weet toevallig dat Diebo beide paarse had staan deze week, maar reken wel op 60-80 euro per stuk. Ik kan op zich ook wel een stekje van beide afknippen (afhankelijk van de grootte voor 10-20 euro per stuk) als je interesse hebt mail dan ff naar [e-mail]

[@stevenfountain84]

Wonderful tank mate. Is that a t5 /led light you use

[@DutchReefer]

Thanks Steven! Yeah it's a Giesemann Aurora with four ATI Coral Plus bulbs, plus the Marine Blue and Royal Blue LED's

[@stevenfountain84]

Cool Thanks

[@emmahopps5463]

My purple gorgonians have lost their colour one gone pale pink and my ribbon has gone brown other than the new growth which comes in purple then fades. any idea what they may be lacking. There's purple at the tips and at the base so don't think it could be light. issue

[@DutchReefer]

I'm pretty sure that's a flow-related problem, but light might also be involved. Try to give it some more flow first, they can withstand quite some flow!

[@miguelbaguyot842]

Whats the food you put on the glass called

[@DutchReefer]

That's Masstick! A product by Easyreefs

[@slirpslirp]

hi, can you keep mennella gorgonia under high intensity light ? is it difficult to keep?

[@DutchReefer]

I have seen them doing well under both high light and low light, pretty easy to keep!

[@arunar3048]

My gorgonian is discharging a brown smoky thing what is that? It’s like smoke

[@DutchReefer]

Hmm I'm not quite sure, is it doing that all the time or at certain moments?

[@Tom-pp4iv]

What’s that big fish with white and black color long fin on it?

[@DutchReefer]

Hi Tu that's a Spotted Drum!

[@markrobinson7297]

What's the big black and white fish

[@DutchReefer]

Hi Mark, It's called Spotted Drum (Equetus Punctatus)

[@joshm3360]

is that a tunicate on the rock next to the NPS gorgonian

[@DutchReefer]

It's either a tunicate or some specific sponge, not sure!

[@joshm3360]

@@DutchReefer it looks like a tunicate for sure

[@alexlee9545]

Как удаётся сохранить такую чистоту? Сделайте об этом видео.

[@DutchReefer]

I have a video about that, check out my channel! It's focus friday #21

[@ShaunChan]

dude, DJI is ALSO a Chinese brand. sorry to disappoint you.

[@DutchReefer]

Haha I don't care about the brand being Chinese or not, I just couldn't think of the name on the spot (which was Zhiyun). So I'm very glad that DJI, another Chinese company, made a quality product :)

[@ynotski9]

Anton Great Tank, but your not a gardener, tall plants at back, your purple Gorgonian is tall and wide it's obscuring the corals behind it.

[@DutchReefer]

Yeah obviously I'm a reefer, not a gardener. I like it at the front, and that's where I put it on purpose (and where it stays). Gives me a good reason to look at the tank from different perspectives plus it adds some verticality which most reef tanks are lacking. So it's a deliberate choice by a non-gardener hehe