flower pot coral.... impossible?
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CyclistMT
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This is the best information that I have.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080622122345/www.goniopora.org/speciesinfo.htm
Good luck!
Sonny n Colleen
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just got one!
just got one!
I recently just bought a green gonipora or flower pot against my better judgement. Most people will tell you there hard to keep because they are! Most dont survive after the year mark. If you dig the red one get a ORA red flower pot those seem to do the best. Feeding is what is going to help your gonipora survive! Reef roids is the only food that is specifically meant for flower pots and ive heard the stuff is great! Most people that target feed reef roids are able to keep there flower pots significantly longer than those who dont from what I understand. They are a truly awesome coral though but not an easy one. Also they like an aquarium with dirty water since naturally thats where they come from! Heres a pic of mine!
Also when lights are off they retract there tentacles and when lights are on they become pretty extended especially during feeding time.
just got one!
I recently just bought a green gonipora or flower pot against my better judgement. Most people will tell you there hard to keep because they are! Most dont survive after the year mark. If you dig the red one get a ORA red flower pot those seem to do the best. Feeding is what is going to help your gonipora survive! Reef roids is the only food that is specifically meant for flower pots and ive heard the stuff is great! Most people that target feed reef roids are able to keep there flower pots significantly longer than those who dont from what I understand. They are a truly awesome coral though but not an easy one. Also they like an aquarium with dirty water since naturally thats where they come from! Heres a pic of mine!
Also when lights are off they retract there tentacles and when lights are on they become pretty extended especially during feeding time.
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I got one, about a month ago...the LFS told me it was very easy to care for... I should have gone home done my homework and not bought it...but the specimen looked really healthy and I fell in love with how it looked. I took it home and acclimated it, and it looked really really healthy for the first 4-5 days. But thereafter, the majority of the polyps remain submerged in its skeleton, and if they come out they come out only barely. The polyps towards the bottom of the coral come out and look alot healthier than the one towards the top. I just started feeding him oyster feast in suspension. I had at first thought that he was unhappy because of flow issues...either not enough or too much... So I bought a Hydor Smart wave for my koralias to give a more wave effect to the tank, right now I have him in medium flow. After reading more and more now I believe that feeding may have been the issue. I shall report back when I know.... :-/ If I can save the little bugger. But I checked all my levels last night and everything is perfect. Salinity, PH, Mag, Ca, Phosphates, Nitrates... all perfect so only time will tell.
I was speaking to a very trusted employee at my lfs on Saturday because I was looking at a beautiful yellow pot. He has always been honest with me and said in his 10 plus years of reefing, he has never had one lakest more than a year. He said that if you want one accept that fact that you will replace it the next year, just like the pretty flowers people plant in their flower beds in the spring only to have to replace them the following spring.
Bretts05jeep
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I just read an artical about how to keep them in the premer issue of coral & reef annual magazine.
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Did you get any good info out of it?
Bretts05jeep
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Yes, It was very informational. It was about three or four pages, it made me want to try one.
This coral is so bright it's been awesome, It hates a strong flow but it's in a swirling medium one and is way happy, it's been a week and is looking good so far.
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essencereefer
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I had a green one for mare than a decade. You could beat it with a stick and it would be just fine. Had times when it receded and times when it encrusted. All in all it was easy to keep. Finally lost it, and it was a source of great saddness, when my heater went haywire and fried my system. Lost about 100 acros, and all fish, but the loss of my goni was really the worst.
BrownPoseidon
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Truly amazing. 10 years is a looooong time considering im 24. I bought a branching alveopora from a less than reputable lfs. It started out white with good polyp extension. Once in my tank it turned greener and greener. The polyps soon extended to the max and i thought that the skeleton and flesh were even beginning to grow/swell etc. It looked amazing for 4 months. Then one week the polyps came out less and less each day until it never extended out like it once had. At best polyps come out a quarter of the way. Thats where im at today.
so sad most beautiful coral ive owned when extended
I tracked down this article and it's a great read. Thank you
Sorry man that's a lot of loss. How big was the flower pot at it's largest point?
