flower pot coral.... impossible?
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carlos413
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This is mine, I have had him for over 2 years and have never spot fed him. My tank is a mixed reef with many sps and lps.
I have been on the fence on getting the ora red. My LFS has frags from a local reefer that aquaculture this coral. I just cant pull the trigger yet. Not convinced on the survivability in a closed system.
That is a gorgeous Coral above, I wish we had more success stories like yours.:thumbsup:
trinidiver
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This is mine, I have had him for over 2 years and have never spot fed him. My tank is a mixed reef with many sps and lps.
What food do you feed all your corals?
birdman1979
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Mine red ORA goni has almost doubled in size in about two months. Probably my fastest growing coral. I keep it in moderate light, with moderate intermitant flow. It eats brine shrimp a few times per week and whatever else it captures from the water column. I hope it stays healthy because it's a stunning coral.
Alex T.
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I did some research on this coral before I bought the one I saw at my LFS. Unlike other on this thread, I've heard that they do quite well in SPS tanks. During a water change when I turn my 4 Vortech MP40's down low, it is the only coral that retracts its' polyps. As soon as the flow is increased, it will open up again. Mine is green, and a nice metallic green at that. It's actually been opening up better and better each week that I've had it. I understand that a month and a half is nothing spectacular, but from what I've read, many decline as a tank declines too. I have mine positioned off to the side of a rock structure about 12 inches below the intake of 2 MP40's and it appears to love the flow.
Here is a picture from a month ago. It is in what I would call a high flow area, as this portion of the sand bed shows wave patterns and needs to be raked back to cover the glass bottom each week during a water change. Lights are out right now, so I will take an updated picture of it tomorrow. I also read that they like higher light, and it has definitely reacted well to being just off the reflector of a 400 watt Radium.
Here is a picture from a month ago. It is in what I would call a high flow area, as this portion of the sand bed shows wave patterns and needs to be raked back to cover the glass bottom each week during a water change. Lights are out right now, so I will take an updated picture of it tomorrow. I also read that they like higher light, and it has definitely reacted well to being just off the reflector of a 400 watt Radium.
icecool217
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Storekeeper at my local LFS had trouble keeping it, and so are most of his customers. Whole colony would get sold and returned a few days later with damaged areas and would get fragged. Definitely tough to keep. Gf feeds them cyclopeeze and zooplanktons and has been able to keep it for a while.
grcforce327
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Tried to get a pic of mine by itself, under the halides,but I've got some camera "hams" in the tank!:lolspin:
symon_say
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LeLutinBanni
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Mine is the same specie that ORA is selling.
My frag is growing every day.
My frag is growing every day.
Crazy4salth2o
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I bought 2. Both have languished over the past 8 months. I dose trace and keep up with regular water changes. 4 small fish in my 180.
accordsirh22
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i have a green one that started off extending HUGE when it came in to the lfs. over a couple months it extended less and less. my friend bought it and it extended less and less in his tank so he brought it over to my tank. slowly but surely it has been extending more and more in my tank. it's not back to where it was when it came into the store, but its extending more than when it left the store. only thing i can think of, aside from my water being more stable than my friends, is that i feed reef chili and dose amino acids.
I have a small white one in my frag tank. It was doing pretty well until I put it in my DT and then it stopped extending. I don't know if it was the lights (MH) or a fish was bothering it or what.
So, after a couple of months I put it back in the frag tank (T-5s) and it's doing better. I don't target feed it probably as much as I should.
So, after a couple of months I put it back in the frag tank (T-5s) and it's doing better. I don't target feed it probably as much as I should.
CHSUB
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i bumped this thread after 6 months to find success or failure with the people who posted months ago. keeping this coral alive for a couple of months is a joke!!!!....talk about success after a year or two.
i find it funny that there are "tang police" and others of the sort that get "righteous" about overstocking and mixing certain fish, when this coral is doomed to fail nearly 100% of the time..... where is all the outrage about this coral? shouldn't it get the "flamed" responses that are similar to tangs in 75 gallon tanks or sohal mixed with any fish?
maybe there should be a "sticky" about this coral and how it is ripped from the reef only to die in someone tank. then when someone posts about this coral the response could be, "READ THE STICKY"......
i find it funny that there are "tang police" and others of the sort that get "righteous" about overstocking and mixing certain fish, when this coral is doomed to fail nearly 100% of the time..... where is all the outrage about this coral? shouldn't it get the "flamed" responses that are similar to tangs in 75 gallon tanks or sohal mixed with any fish?
maybe there should be a "sticky" about this coral and how it is ripped from the reef only to die in someone tank. then when someone posts about this coral the response could be, "READ THE STICKY"......
accordsirh22
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i posted my experience because it seems that mine is turning around, from almost dying to getting better. your earlier post was exactly what i had mentioned, extending less and less. so i think my reply that i have gotten this one to start extending more is a pretty viable post.
also from what i have read and understood the short tentacle versions fair much better than the long tentacle ones.
while you're at it, why not just yell at everyone who has any corals or fish because they were pulled from the ocean at one point or another as well. and im sure plenty of them died before the keys to success were figured out as well. it sucks that most of them will die, but without people trying, there is no way to figure out how to properly keep them so that they can live in our tanks
also from what i have read and understood the short tentacle versions fair much better than the long tentacle ones.
while you're at it, why not just yell at everyone who has any corals or fish because they were pulled from the ocean at one point or another as well. and im sure plenty of them died before the keys to success were figured out as well. it sucks that most of them will die, but without people trying, there is no way to figure out how to properly keep them so that they can live in our tanks
This hits the nail right on the head. 30+ years ago I didn't know anyone who successfully kept any corals. It was all crushed coral, dead coral skeletons and u/g filters back then. Basically, a nitrate factory.
I've read books from the 70s and 80s that suggested it was probably "impossible" to breed any s/w fish in the home aquarium. Now we've got entire forums dedicated to the subject.
Yes, there has been collateral damage along the way and that is truly a shame. But we only learn by doing. I suspect sooner or later someone out there will figure out what makes Flower Pots "tick" and suddenly they'll be as easy to keep as GSP.
tektite
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Love goniopora, kinda addicted to them lol. I have many of them. They do well for me, problem is I don't know why or how to pinpoint helping others with theirs. They're in 2 different systems, one's a macroalgae dominated tank with very high nutrients and unstable alk/cal levels, the other's an SPS/LPS tank with low nutrients, rock steady alk/cal. Both are temperature controlled by an Apex and temp varies in either system less than 1 degree from day to night. I don't feed either tank any small filter food. I have observed the ORA red goni eating mysis shrimp though on occasion.
My oldest is an ORA red goniopora, this January I'll have had it for 3 years. Even with fragging off about 8 frags the size ORA sells this past year, its still 4x the size it was when I got it.
Others I've had ~2 years are a green with purple/blue tips, a standard green, and a gold:
Others I have that are new (less than 1 year):
Pink
Neon green
Pale green alveopora
Baby green goni buds, starting small!
Also have a blue one not pictured
My oldest is an ORA red goniopora, this January I'll have had it for 3 years. Even with fragging off about 8 frags the size ORA sells this past year, its still 4x the size it was when I got it.
Others I've had ~2 years are a green with purple/blue tips, a standard green, and a gold:
Others I have that are new (less than 1 year):
Pink
Neon green
Pale green alveopora
Baby green goni buds, starting small!
Also have a blue one not pictured
CHSUB
"Certified Hobby Expert"
i wasn't "flaming" you. in fact, i agree with trying to keep difficult aminals with the idea of future success. i was writing more about the irony of some reef animals invoking visceral dietribe while others are forgetten. an example would be the sohal tang, make a thread about one and every reef central expert will scold you for even thing about one, but get a coral with nearly a 100% failure record and barely anybody comments? quite ironic?
