placement of my flower pot coral???

customcolor · #1 01/07/2008, 12:22 AM

i just got this flower pot coral. i have tryed searching for one just like it on the web to find out if where i put it in my tank is a good spot for it to stay long term. the pic is 1 day after i got it.

i have a om squirt shooting water BY it once a min. with a 15k 175 watt halide over it in my 125. seems happy but its new. and are they easyer than the pink ones? and would i loose it if i fraged a peice off it?

colotl · #2 01/07/2008, 12:35 AM

I have put mine where there is gentle flow. I had a couple not make it. My third one has been up for 8months and have been spot feeding it. Something I didn't do with the others.

janakaybravo · #3 01/07/2008, 12:58 AM

The red/pink ones are much easier than the green ones. I have never been able to make one live, although all my other corals do fine. I placed my red one at the bottom of the tank and have sps, lps all over the tank.

Racing1 · #4 01/07/2008, 01:13 AM

I have my red/pink one about midway in tbe tank under 150w metal halides with medium flow...

You can also check out this link

http://www.goniopora.org/feeding.htm

customcolor · #5 01/07/2008, 02:12 AM

i just spent an hour reading that and lots of info. to what i can see that my flow may be a little to ruff but i will keep an eye on it to see if it still extends out as far as it did today. plus i feed rods food once or twice aweek and on the other days i do other frozen foods. i think the rods food would be the best for it

thanks for the info!

gman08016 · #6 01/07/2008, 12:02 PM

I have one close to the top about 10" in my 150 with med flow and seems to be happy.