new coral question

[undertcontrolj]

Okay so i went by the jungle to day and he had just got a shipment in of corals and fish and was getting another one tonight. So if anybody was looking he has some stuff including a purple tang. Nice looking fish. Well i saw a coral that i thought was really cool an so i bought it. A flower pot coral. I am now wondering if anyone has ever had one of these and if so what can you tell me about placement, flow and other things. From what i have read it is going to take some work to get it to stay alive for more than 6 months. So any help would be great. Thanks

 

[sandalscout]

Gonipora or Alveopora? Very similiar, and very hard to keep. I've had 2 of them, and they both sort of strung along for a few months and then went downhill QUICKLY. The key is directly feeding them, like cyclops or something.

 

[undertcontrolj]

yeah i had planned on doing that. Any ideas on where to place it. I have 175 w MH i had it at the top in pretty high flow. but it did not look right so i moved it to the bottom and now it looks great just want to know what your experience was with them.

 

[commonstranger]

I had one for quiet a while and did good. I ended up trading it in on something else several months later. I did start to see a decrease in its health a little but, from what I have been told it is a short lived coral. I kepy mine on the sand bed with low to moderate flow and it did well there.

 

[poolkeeper1]

Feeding this coral is key to it's survival! But in the long run does not thrive only declines over time, and will most likely perish. I had a colony of Alveopora that did well for about a year then very quickly met it's demise! D.T. or Oyster eggs is a good choice for feeding but water quality is also important, so don't overfeed IMO I had it midway in the tank and med flow, with high flow it did not fully open. There very nice corals, Good Luck!

 

[undertcontrolj]

well i am going to try and keep it alive as long as i can. I hate that death seems inevitable. I have read that they are actually found in murky waters so i might try putting it in a place where it wont be in direct light. Right now i have it on the bottom of the tank moderate flow. Looked grear this morning with the lights off. Lights on the tentacles went back in. Still lokks good though.