Flower pot coral experts , is this normal?

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

ive had this flowerpot coral thriving in my tank for a good month and a half and it has been closing lately , I have been messing with my salinity a bit first I lowered it and now I brought it back up this morning a little from 1.023 1.025 when I got home it looked like this

Have any of you flower pot heads seen this activity before because I'm telling you it was perfectly healthy a couple days ago. My other corals are looking nice and parameters are good too I've checked them all .

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Here's a pic from the side too hopefully it helps

Roy 9121 · Oct 12, 2017

I've had flower pots in the past, and they seem to do well for a while then they slowly starve. I'm not saying that is what is happening here, but thats been my experience with them.

Vincent100 · Oct 12, 2017

Feed the tank some small particle foods like Reef roids , I'm not sure if it'll feed when it's closed up but if it opens up definitely feed the tank

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Here's a pic of it Last week , looks pretty healthy and I've been feeding it brine shrimp juice which it shows a feeding response when I feed it. Did yours look unhealthy for a while before it died or did it happen instantly? And did it look like mine does in the last pic?

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Vincent100 said:
Feed the tank some small particle foods like Reef roids , I'm not sure if it'll feed when it's closed up but if it opens up definitely feed the tank

I feed my tank quite often but just there some more food in there, I did just clean my powerheads yesterday perhaps the water flow is irritating it since it's a little stronger now they are clean?

Vincent100 · Oct 12, 2017

Iv got 3 and i'v had one for over a year and my clowns host it

In the vid look for the clowns and you'll see them hosting it

Vincent100 · Oct 12, 2017

Do you feed a very small particle food?

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Vincent100 said:
Iv got 3 and i'v had one for over a year and my clowns host it

In the vid look for the clowns and you'll see them hosting it

dang my clowns are lazy af time to fire them lol

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Vincent100 said:
Do you feed a very small particle food?

I feed it brine shrimp juice it gets really fat and seems to like it when I feed it that, doesn't close up either seems like it's eating but never particle food I used to have a powder form food now I just have pellets small coral pellets

Vincent100 · Oct 12, 2017

Try and get some reef roids or better still some gonipower..... I think thats what it's called

DSC reef · Oct 12, 2017

+1 for reef roids. Also, when I had a large softball sized green goniopora it would literally swell up like a balloon, yours looks very similar in that way.

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

DSC reef said:
+1 for reef roids. Also, when I had a large softball sized green goniopora it would literally swell up like a balloon, yours looks very similar in that way.

Yea that's exactly what it looks like , each branch or whatever they are called look inflated. How long would yours do that for?

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

Vincent100 said:
Try and get some reef roids or better still some gonipower..... I think thats what it's called

I just made some particle food , I crushed my reef frenzy pellets with two spoons into a powder ( I'm a mad scientist) the powder is in a frag shipping container with saltwater turning into a liquid food, I'll get reef Roids but I'm sure this will be better than nothing. I tried sprinkling some over the top of the closed Flower pot coral and the two clownfish instead of hosting were trying to steal from the coral lol I got some greedy clownfish.

DSC reef · Oct 12, 2017

It would get like that before the lights went out and by morning it would be fine. I don't have any old pics because it was years ago but I posted pics of it back on 3reef. I wouldn't bother trying to feed it while it's swollen. You can also make a container to kinda cover the goniopora to keep the food around it, I'm sure there's a diy thread somewhere about that.

FugeTown · Oct 12, 2017

DSC reef said:
It would get like that before the lights went out and by morning it would be fine. I don't have any old pics because it was years ago but I posted pics of it back on 3reef. I wouldn't bother trying to feed it while it's swollen. You can also make a container to kinda cover the goniopora to keep the food around it, I'm sure there's a diy thread somewhere about that.

Just shut off the powerheads and squirted some crushed reef frenzy diluted in saltwater and seems to like it from what I see