Beginner with corals (flower pot)

[21Reefman]

Yeah, my clown started to hang on my Turbastrea/suncoral and it soon started to polyp eject. I removed the clown and the coral has stopped ejecting and started to bud anew. Still looks dead when compared to what it was pre-clown. I put clowns right below Damsels, on my Fish to Avoid list.

 

[Mac73]

Hello All:

I am also new to salt and within three weeks of setting up my tank my wife bought me an Alveopora as a suprise present. At the time my lighting was underpowered (40 w fluorescent) and within two weeks the Alveopora was barley opening....I upgraded to a 150 MH and it fully recovered....It is now doing very well and seems to "bloom" much better than ever before. I just started adding Kent ZooPlex and Coral Accel to supplement my Gorgonian, which I guess will also help my Alveopora?

Mac73

 

[Mac73]

Hello All:

I am also new to salt and within three weeks of setting up my tank my wife bought me an Alveopora as a suprise present. At the time my lighting was underpowered (40 w fluorescent) and within two weeks the Alveopora was barley opening....I upgraded to a 150 MH and it fully recovered....It is now doing very well and seems to "bloom" much better than ever before. I just started adding Kent ZooPlex and Coral Accel to supplement my Gorgonian, which I guess will also help my Alveopora?

Mac73

 

[davidryder]

that was funny seeing people jumping to conclusions like that!

 

[Sheol]

The other thing(s) I have read about these corals is that both clowns & hermit crabs will kill them in the long run.
Also, I've seen suggestions that refugeiums are required.

Matthew
Again, not direct experience, I'm too much a newbie to risk it, though the ones at the LFS are truly breathtaking..

 

[mybug]

Update on my flower pot

Update on my flower pot

First of all, it is alveopora with 12 tentacles on each polyp. Yes !!

I took a pic and I'll get it developed and scanned in sometime but this is the best match I could find on the web.

http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/alveopora.htm

It is a light tan with green on the ends. It continues to grow rapidly. Rapidly in that each day there are signs of it expanding further down the sides of the rock.

I didn't think that wholesale reef outfit I've gotten introduced to would do me wrong. The local KC reef club swears by them.

I'll drop a note back sometime but at this point I'm thinking the whole rush to judgement on all flowerpots and the FUD around their level of difficulty has me believing that I just need to press forward and not get to worried about it. I'll just keep maintaing my tank as I have been and move on.

 

[JENnKerry]

The other thing(s) I have read about these corals is that both clowns & hermit crabs will kill them in the long run

Clowns.....yes. Hermits......I've never heard of that one.

Also, I've seen suggestions that refugeiums are required

I don't use one but they definately will benefit from it.