What's going on with my Flowerpot?

[MarlinHooker]

I picked up this flowerpot last Fri & up until yesterday everything looked normal. When I got home last night it was puffed up to the size of a grapefruit with the polys barely extended. These pics show them extended some more as it was alternating extending back and forth. What would cause this to happen? I also noticed that my green torch on the opposite side of the tank was retracted to about half its normal size. I checked parameters and everything seemed normal (Alk 8.3, Mag 1260, Ca 420) at the same levels since its introduction.

 

[M007]

They tend to go through a funky settling process and occasionally retract for days, usually regaining their former beauty. Wait it out.

 

[usmc121581]

Place inform me someone, I haven't had one of those in many moons because the last one I had parishes fast. I heard they are very difficult to care for and most don't survive.

 

[MarlinHooker]

M007, thx he's acting normal again ... He should be in an area of moderate to strong flow and light, right?

 

[jwoyshnar]

I had a plate coral do that often, I was told it was inflating to move around.

 

[MarlinHooker]

I thought plate corls did that when they feed and it also helps too keep sand off of them that may accumulate during the day. The day after I got my diamond emperor goby my purple plate coral was 90% buried by the time the goby got done digging his sleeping cave. When I woke up the next morning the plate coral was completely clean ... it sure wasn't the goby who did that ...

 

[M007]

M007, thx he's acting normal again ... He should be in an area of moderate to strong flow and light, right?

Correct :celeb1:

 

[tektite]

No, not strong flow. Moderate flow is best. They can adapt to strong flow, but if the coral's new to your tank no need to stress it, let it get used to the tank first.

 

[MarlinHooker]

It's settled down nicely now ..

So how about placement for torches?

 

[chrisfont23]

Goniopora, from experience, are impossible to keep. I had one for about 6 months. Like most LPS, low to medium indirect flow worked best. I had it under T5s too. Your's looks like the stalks are not extending enough - the base should be completely swollen and the stalks too.

I could not keep mine alive for the life of me. If I nudged mine ever so slightly, it would not open for days. My clowns then experimented w/ hosting it and that didn't work either. I had read that that they do better with iron supplements. The track record is so poor in captivity, that people refer to them as rent-a-corals.

Mine is currently a paper weight in my office.

 

[trinidiver]

Goniopora, from experience, are impossible to keep. I had one for about 6 months. Like most LPS, low to medium indirect flow worked best. I had it under T5s too. Your's looks like the stalks are not extending enough - the base should be completely swollen and the stalks too.

I could not keep mine alive for the life of me. If I nudged mine ever so slightly, it would not open for days. My clowns then experimented w/ hosting it and that didn't work either. I had read that that they do better with iron supplements. The track record is so poor in captivity, that people refer to them as rent-a-corals.

Mine is currently a paper weight in my office.

Mine did the same thing, only diference is mine is still in my tank and some zoas has started to grow over the dead rock