🌟 Golden Stardust Goniopora

Goniopora sp. (Yellow Glitter Australian Colony)

🔹 Quick Stats

• Care Level: Moderate to Advanced

• Temperament: Semi-aggressive (long sweeper tentacles possible)

• Colour Form: Radiant yellow polyps with shimmering glitter-like highlights across each tentacle. Under actinic and blue-dominant lighting, the colony sparkles with a golden stardust effect, creating a dazzling centrepiece.

• Water Conditions: 24–27 °C, dKH 8–10, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026

• Family: Poritidae

• Lighting: Moderate to strong (to intensify glitter effect)

• Supplements: Calcium, Magnesium, Trace Elements, Amino Acids

• Water Flow: Gentle, indirect — enough to keep polyps swaying gracefully

• Placement: Mid to lower levels, with space for full polyp extension

🧬 Overview

The Golden Stardust Goniopora is a premium Australian colony prized for its glowing yellow glitter-like appearance. Each long, flower-like polyp extends in rhythmic motion, creating a living bouquet that shimmers as light plays across its tentacles. This morph is particularly striking under blue or actinic light, where its metallic golden flecks ignite with an otherworldly radiance.

While Goniopora have historically been considered challenging, modern reefing techniques and targeted feeding make them much more accessible. With the right care, this coral rewards aquarists with unmatched movement, colour, and presence.

🍽️ Feeding & Care

Though photosynthetic, Goniopora thrive with supplemental feeding. Offer fine particulate foods such as phytoplankton, marine snow, or specialised coral blends 2–3 times weekly. Target feeding when polyps are extended will support growth, enhance colour, and promote long-term vitality. Stable, clean water with consistent trace element supplementation is essential.

📈 Optimal Parameters

• Alkalinity (dKH): 8–10

• Calcium (Ca): 420–460 ppm

• Magnesium (Mg): 1250–1350 ppm

• Nitrate (NO₃): 5–15 ppm

• Phosphate (PO₄): 0.03–0.08 ppm

📍 Placement

Place in an open area of the reef with moderate lighting and gentle, indirect flow. Allow enough room for full polyp extension and avoid aggressive neighbours. Under blue spectrum lighting, the “glitter” effect becomes most prominent, turning this colony into a true jewel of the reef.

👉 Este dei-lhe um nome premium — Golden Stardust Goniopora — porque é uma colónia australiana ultra amarela com glitter, um morph claramente de alto valor colecionável.

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