Aquacultured Amaze Balls Goniopora – Frag

Description

You are buying the exact frag in the photo: the Amaze Balls Goniopora on the plug. This frag has already been cut and has healed, so it is ready to ship on the next ship day. Under blue spectrum reef lighting the polyps open into cream to peach flowers with pale tips, with teal green showing between them at the base.

Aquacultured in Key West

This is a fully aquacultured Goniopora. It comes from a colony we have been growing and fragging in our own Key West systems for the last 4 years. A frag off a colony that has lived and grown in aquarium water for years is already adapted to tank conditions, which is the biggest reason aquacultured Goniopora do better than wild pieces.

About Goniopora

Goniopora is an LPS coral with long polyps on stalks, each ending in a ring of short tentacles, so a healthy colony looks like a bouquet of tiny flowers. Wild Goniopora earned a reputation for being hard to keep, and aquacultured lines like Amaze Balls are what changed that: they have been grown and fed in captivity for generations of frags.

Care Guide

Moderate care. Goniopora does best with steady feeding and stable water, and it shows it with full polyp extension and steady growth.

• Lighting: Medium, PAR 100–200. Acclimate it to new lighting over a week or two.
• Flow: Medium. Enough random flow to keep the tentacles moving, never a direct jet.
• Placement: Sandbed or lower rockwork, with room for the polyps to extend fully.
• Feeding: High. Fine plankton, powdered coral foods and amino acids several times a week.
• Aggression: Peaceful. Keep it clear of aggressive neighbors with long sweepers.
• Water Parameters: Temp 76–78°F, salinity 1.025–1.026, Alk 8–9 dKH, Ca 420–440, Mg 1300–1400. Stability matters more than exact numbers.

Shipping & Live Arrival Guarantee

Livestock ships Tuesday or Wednesday by UPS Next Day Air from Key West, Florida. Packed in an insulated box with a heat or cold pack matched to current conditions, and secured so the specimen cannot move in transit.

• Fill your box: up to 4 spots ship for one shipping charge. A frag, zoa, small WYSIWYG, cleanup-crew pack or small dry good takes 1 spot. A colony takes 2. A rare big colony takes all 4 and ships alone.
• Qualifying Florida livestock: $30 per box.
• All other eligible lower-48 livestock: $50 per box.
• Box & Handling Fee: $15 per box, for the insulated box plus ice or heat packs, in addition to the shipping charge above.
• Spots 2 through 4 in a box add no extra shipping. A fifth spot starts a second box, which pays its own shipping and Box & Handling Fee.
• Free livestock transportation begins at $299 in qualifying livestock subtotal and covers shipping on the first box. Each extra box pays its shipping rate. WYSIWYG livestock counts toward that subtotal; dry goods do not.
• The $15 Box & Handling Fee applies to every box, including on free-transportation orders.
• We do not ship orders of any kind to Alaska or Hawaii.

Live arrival is guaranteed. If your animal arrives DOA, photograph it inside the unopened bag within four (4) hours of delivery confirmation and contact us right away with those photos. We will work with you on a resolution.

Placement: Sandbed or lower rockwork in medium light and medium flow, with open space around it for full tentacle extension.

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