Flower Pot, bad mistake for me.

[Roy]

hey everyone, my friend bought a filter from some store and returned it, they only gave him store credit. so he just gave me it and i had to use it that day so i got a flower pot. the only thing there that was saltwater and that was left over. everything else was like over 60 dollars. so like ummm bad mistake for me cause my tank isnt strong enough for it. im running 2 x25's and its a 25 tall tank. running 2 power heads. what do i feed it? how do i take care of it. when it was at the store the stems were all the way out of the hard coral. but when i took it home, its not even out of the coral. all the heads are staying inside. need some help here. is it gona die? is there anything i can do to help it? i will prepare a casket now just incase.

ill try to post pictures and update you on whats going on.

[tims]

hi,
there are two type of flowers' one with 12 heads and one with 24.. i have the 24 heads... for the life of my i can not remember the names right now.. i kow as soon as i hit the submit nutton i will remember....to the question...

if you can plac e it a mid to upper range of your tank then it should be find. keep an eye on your tank levels.. mine really hates any change in SG..

as far as feeding...don't ready have too, but can supp. with any liq. coral food.. they will take what is in the water itself... how long has it been in your tank now..?.. it may take a day or two before it opens....
BTW the 12 head is much more harder to take care of than the 24 head version...

HTH

[StellaMN]

Hi Roy....

The 12 "petaled" one is gonipora, the 24 "petaled" one is alveolopora (?spelling). The alveo has a better survival rate in captivity.

One issue with keeping these corals is that they are normally found in lagoonal areas, where the water is "dirty."--as opposed the sterile conditions found on the reef. Our skimmer, refugium-driven clean tanks are incapable of providing the constant nutrition that these corals require.

Someone feel free to jump in here, as I am commenting from memory.....

Jodi

[Roy]

oh k i think my flower pot is dead. the heads are not coming out and some look out of shape. also some of them looks like there stuck and cant get into the head. there turning green and purple. is that right? is it dead? is it dying? will it ever survive? will i ever have a success in a reef tank? will i ever stop buying stuff at the store? next time on, Roy is a newb and should started this hobby. see ya till then.

[ScoobityDoobity]

Do you know how bad I would love to flame you right now? But I'm not, I'm going to be good and just say this. BUY A BOOK with your credit next time.

[tims]

ok Roy cvalm down... move the flower pot to the middle or lower part of thank anf leave it alone... take a picture of it and put here so wew can see it ...
they are a hard one to get going sometimes... if anything i have learned so far.. DO not call dead dea until much much later...i have had corals regrow after a "death".. i placed "out of sight" moved on and Bam it was growing back after a long while...

hang in there...
do you have any books yet on corals and inverts ?

just to let you know i looked up in my records.. my took a little over a week and a half before it opened fully...


HTH

tim

[yardboy]

Minor point Stella but the Alveopora has 12, the Goniopera has 24. you're right about the Alveo being "somewhat" easier to keep alive, and that it needs to be fed like it's in a turbid lagoon. Absolutley the worst choice for a newbie.

[Roy]

k here is the flower pot. i put it in the middle up near the ligths. and it seems to be coming out now

http://www.ricestudios.com/flowerpot.wmv

[cyberchef]

I don't personally heva a flowerpot coral but from a few people I know they suggest using Cyclop-eeze to feed them. It's higher in a specific amino acid that the goni's seem to need. It also reallt seems to work well for feeding sun corals.