Close up of feeding.

Here you can see freshly hatched baby brine shrimp being injested by the polyps. My observation is that the polyps feed in the mid 150-400 micron range. I will try to narrow down that range based on future experiments with different types of food. So far, successful foods have been freshly hatched baby brine shrimp, ReefRoids and live copepods.

In this photo taken approximately 5 seconds after I blew live freshly hatched brine shrimp across the polyps, you notice some have random tentacles wrapped around to the center. I have observed orange nauplii being fully injested into the polyp. There seems to be a limit in the capacity of polyp per feeding but I have not calculated that yet. I have noticed an increase in the number of new smaller baby polyps appearing as well as the swelling and deeper coloration to blue for the bigger existing polyps. This is  all within 1 week of starting my daily feedings of freshly hatched brine shrimp and Reefroids.

Photo of blooboo
Here is a portait shot of blooboo when I first received it. It is in a separate t20 gallon tank that is plumbed to a common sump with the display tank.

I am experimenting with current picture sizes.

Full Tank shots. Blooboo and friend.
Here we have an outdated Full Tank Shot of the display tank.

The second pic is a close up of the specimens we will be focusing on. Blooboo and the red guy. Susie didn't name the red one yet.

the beginning

So here is my first entry. Hi. This blog is designed to keep a journal or diary of the daily (or weekly) experiences of trying to raise a blueberry gorgonian.

My fiance, Susie helped name this piece and it will be referred to as BlooBoo from this point on.
My name is Sam. Nice to meet you.