Flower Pot Coral Advice

Angeline · 10/27/2006, 09:19 PM

I bought myself a flowerpot today, I have done my research and from what I have found it can be a harder species to keep. Right now my water specs are perfect, there are no fish in the tank (a lone snail though), some small frags nowhere near it, and then the coral.

I placed it on the bottom of the tank, in the sandbed and it has branched out and is doing quite nicely since it's been acclimated. However, I'm worried about what I have read about them starving to death.

So I was wondering if anyone who has successfully kept this coral can give me any advice. It would be greatly appreciated.

John Kelly · 10/28/2006, 01:15 PM

Keep it fed. Frozen Cyclopeeze works well.
http://www.goniopora.org/feeding.htm

Is it an Alveopora (with 12 tentacles surrounding the mouths), or Goniopora (with 24 tentacles surrounding the mouths)? Hopefully it is in your 40g and not your 12g.

Angeline · 10/28/2006, 02:26 PM

It's a Goniopora.

Oh it's in my 40g for sure

Last night I target fed it some zooplankton. I will get some cyclopeeze and start feeding it that as well. Thanks for that link, it was very helpful

John Kelly · 10/28/2006, 02:47 PM

Your welcome!

Sometimes it takes a few feedings before the coral really acclimates to being target fed. If you get a bar of cyclopeeze (it's inexpensive), either shave a little of it off while it's still frozen or chunk it off and mash it up a little bit to get some juice out.

Goniopora are really more like pets than decorations.

Angeline · 10/28/2006, 03:03 PM

LOL, thanks, I will definately try that out.

And hey, I never thought of anything in my tank as a decoration

it's all alive and should be cared for as a pet!

10/27/2006, 09:19 PM	#1
Angeline Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento. CA Posts: 141	Flower Pot Coral Advice I bought myself a flowerpot today, I have done my research and from what I have found it can be a harder species to keep. Right now my water specs are perfect, there are no fish in the tank (a lone snail though), some small frags nowhere near it, and then the coral. I placed it on the bottom of the tank, in the sandbed and it has branched out and is doing quite nicely since it's been acclimated. However, I'm worried about what I have read about them starving to death. So I was wondering if anyone who has successfully kept this coral can give me any advice. It would be greatly appreciated.

10/28/2006, 01:15 PM	#2
John Kelly Goniopora Aficionado Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Springfield MO Posts: 1,362	Keep it fed. Frozen Cyclopeeze works well. http://www.goniopora.org/feeding.htm Is it an Alveopora (with 12 tentacles surrounding the mouths), or Goniopora (with 24 tentacles surrounding the mouths)? Hopefully it is in your 40g and not your 12g. __________________ *Disclaimer: Due to variances in the perception of reality, the words you see may not be the ones I typed.

10/28/2006, 02:47 PM	#4
John Kelly Goniopora Aficionado Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Springfield MO Posts: 1,362	Your welcome! Sometimes it takes a few feedings before the coral really acclimates to being target fed. If you get a bar of cyclopeeze (it's inexpensive), either shave a little of it off while it's still frozen or chunk it off and mash it up a little bit to get some juice out. Goniopora are really more like pets than decorations. __________________ *Disclaimer: Due to variances in the perception of reality, the words you see may not be the ones I typed.

10/28/2006, 02:26 PM	#3
Angeline Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento. CA Posts: 141	It's a Goniopora. Oh it's in my 40g for sure Last night I target fed it some zooplankton. I will get some cyclopeeze and start feeding it that as well. Thanks for that link, it was very helpful

10/28/2006, 03:03 PM	#5
Angeline Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Sacramento. CA Posts: 141	LOL, thanks, I will definately try that out. And hey, I never thought of anything in my tank as a decoration it's all alive and should be cared for as a pet!