Flower pot coral experts , is this normal?

[FugeTown]

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]

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

 

[Roy 9121]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Do you feed a very small particle food?

 

[FugeTown]

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]

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]

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

 

[DSC reef]

+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]

+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]

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]

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]

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

 

[DSC reef]

That's a positive sign. Good stuff

 

[FugeTown]

That's a positive sign. Good stuff

Definitely, I appreciate everyone's pointers here on reef2reef might of saved this one and gonna get some roids reef roids :D

 

[FugeTown]

That's a positive sign. Good stuff

Now my clownfish are viciously trying to eat the flower pot coral :( now they are completely closed my clownfish suck so bad making me so mad right now

 

[FugeTown]