flower pot [branch]

[Ram_Puppy]

there was a couple on a reefcentral a while back drawing serious fire because they were talking about how successful their goni's were doing.

let me see if I can find the link... (probably not because the reefcentral search SUCKS.)

[Ram_Puppy]

nope... as I feared, reef centrals famous 'search is disabled' page... I hate that.

Anyhow, they had awesmoe water quality and were feeding some product that was like a mix of DT's and cyclopzeeze, and had incredible polyp extension.

[brewercm]

Hey, what's wrong with a Goni? JK, but I've had my purple one that's in my tank now for about 10 months and the guy I got it from "said" he had it for about a year before I picked it up from him when he moved.

Here's a link to it with the clowns in it, the smaller of the two clowns has since died.
http://www.maast.org/modules.php?set...view_photo.php

[Richard]

I have 2 goniopora. One will grab small particulate food and one does not (just gets organics from the water column I believe). I think one of the keys to keeping them is to provide plenty of organics/food to them yet still keep water quality high. This is where coral stim seems to help out, although you could achieve the same without using coral stimulator. I don't remember where I read it but somewhere I read that goniopora are one of the species that tend to dominate reefs in areas close to sewage discharge due to the increased levels of organics in the water.

That is an alveopora in the pic. Usually much hardier than goniopora but the care is similar. The article below, the guy is seeing good results from feeding them DT's oyster eggs. I have never seen alveopora take items as large as cyclopeeze/daphnia/baby brine etc.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-10/nftt/index.php

[brewercm]

Ahhhh, this guy will wrap up around just about anything that touches them to eat. Maybe that's why it's doing so good, it's the good one to have.

[brewercm]

I read that goniopora are one of the species that tend to dominate reefs in areas close to sewage discharge due to the increased levels of organics in the water.

All along I thought this was the case above when it was really just a lacking of math skills. Just call me Rainman.

[Richard]

blackstrips85 - The alveopora in your pics does not look at all happy to me. When we have "happy" alveopora at the store they will extend at least 4-6 inches. Even small ones. Also, is that the super lime green flowerpot behind it in the pic? I could be wrong but that color usually indicates a bleached coral.

[Pacman]

I had heard that alveopora was easier to keep than gonipora too, but I still think they are very difficult corals. I was able to get a small alveopora frag about 5 months ago, and unfortunately it seems to have bleached since getting it. Surprisingly, it still inflates very nicely and has at least doubled in base size and number of polyps in that 5 months.

Anyway, yours still seems to have a good amount of color so although it may not be extremely happy, at least it hasn't bleached and there may be some time to find a good spot in the aquarium for it, and find some sort of food it will eat.