Flower Pot

[allan]

I've had mine for about four months (?, there abouts), but it isn't that long tentacle variety. It's got short stems with puple skirt that almmost looks like tiny buttons rather than the skirt seen on the long tentacle variety. I probably have the easy one to maintain. My daughter had one that continuously receeded in a stop and go fashion.

I have a question to the "dirty water" comment. What is dirty water? Is it water with a high amount of particulate matter in the water column or is it water with other than 0 chemical readings? Or is it with high phosphates? No skimming?

My water column, although not inundated, seems to have its fair share of particulate matter that floats about. I'm interested in the welfare of the other occupants as well so you can understand (I hope) my desire for clean water as opposed to dirty.

[MRSBIGBIRD123]

The only success story I have heard of was a while ago, some guy (helpful, I know) in Corpus had a tank with a few flowerpot corals as well as a few elegance corals. I don't know what he was doing, but he had them in captivity for something like 6-8 years at the time I talked to him. All I really got out of it was that he said he just kept his water really 'dirty' and the corals thrived.

That's ironic, from what I have read from Borneman, he states pristine water is needed for the success of the survival.......everyone has their own opinion I guess.
I know that they are found in shallow waters, on the sandbeds/crushed coral. Not the best conditions......