Ora Red Goniopora

d2mini

Premium Member
So i got my first one of these over 3 days ago and it has yet to open AT ALL.
In the store it was under radions (same as my tank).
My alk is 8-8.5 and calc is around 430.
Is it still too early or should I be worried?
I tried it on the sand bed first, and yesterday tried moving it up on some rock.
It's getting medium flow.

Picked up a nice plate coral the same day and it's doing great.
 
give it sometime to adjust to your tank. Sometimes moving it too much, meaning too much human contact is bad for the coral. It might take a couple of days just to adjust to one location let alone a new location everyday.
As long as the flesh is intact, everything should be fine in a couple of days.
 
yeah, I'd give it a few days. I'm on my second ORA red goni and they're pretty bulletproof.
I lost my first on due to a long power outage but before that it was 1 of only 2 corals that survived a haddoni getting sucked into a powerhead while I was away for 3 days for work.
they can take a while to get used to your tank IME.
 
Yeah, when I first got mine it didn't open much at all for a week. Now almost 2 years later its skeleton is 2x the size even with fragging it, plus have 3 frags as big as the original coral I got and 5 smaller frags. Once it takes off it grows great!
 
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