Clown Vs Flowerpot

[ST3PH3N]

haha

[ST3PH3N]

sooo Goniopora for sale i guess

[brewercm]

The clown will kill the flower pot, 99% guarantee. I would remove one or the other. Moving for a couple of days won't work, they will eventually go back to it. My wife is successfully keeping 11 Gonioporas but her tank is and will remain clownless. I had one for 2-1/2 yrs and I added a clown and it was dead in two weeks.

HTH
Steve

Yep, clown will usually always win that battle.

[tropicana]

Well, My mom has a 38g with 2 perculas, and a flowerpot as well. They have hosted in it for a few months now, and havent killed it. Maybe the parameters help too. Her parameters are perfect and water crystal clear! Maybe thats whats keeping it alive....

[ST3PH3N]

Well, My mom has a 38g with 2 perculas, and a flowerpot as well. They have hosted in it for a few months now, and havent killed it. Maybe the parameters help too. Her parameters are perfect and water crystal clear! Maybe thats whats keeping it alive....

i feel thats the reason mine is still doing good. i just want to give it to someone where it can be happy now...well not give. haha

[BIGBIRD123]

Parameters have nothing to do with it. Luck is all. In time, there will be the same results. What happens is the Goni has sharp edges where it protrudes from the skeleton and the steady grinding and moving of the clown grinds the polyps against these edges and destroys these polyps one at a time. Kinda like popping the bubble part of the polyps of zoas kills that polyp. I'm not trying to be the bearer of bad news, just a lot of experience and knowledge and reading. I'm not sure where it was but there is a 32+ page post on RC about gonis and elegances that has given my wife and I oodles of help and that's why she has been so successful.

S

[ST3PH3N]

Parameters have nothing to do with it. Luck is all. In time, there will be the same results. What happens is the Goni has sharp edges where it protrudes from the skeleton and the steady grinding and moving of the clown grinds the polyps against these edges and destroys these polyps one at a time. Kinda like popping the bubble part of the polyps of zoas kills that polyp. I'm not trying to be the bearer of bad news, just a lot of experience and knowledge and reading. I'm not sure where it was but there is a 32+ page post on RC about gonis and elegances that has given my wife and I oodles of help and that's why she has been so successful.

S

thanks 4 the info..im trying to get it a home as we speak

[caferacermike]

And to add to that, as I said before, it's not just goni's it's all LPS that this can happen to.

[BIGBIRD123]

And to add to that, as I said before, it's not just goni's it's all LPS that this can happen to.

Mike is correct but the goni's are more susceptible because of the leading edge of their skeleton where the polyp comes out of is sharp and the rubbing by the clown cuts the polyps.

S