Goniopora, please help :(

[Nahno]

So this coral was doing even better than my Kenya tree for quite awhile. Now it is always in its ball. Color seems to be fading, it doesn’t look well. When I first introduced it to my system my blue legged hermit was kinda “bopping” it. And two days ago I saw him sitting right on top of the balled up gonio...with that and by looking at it is there anything that stands out that I can fix or need to do?

 

[Sick_man]

Gonis can just mysteriously close or die for unknown reasons. I bought a purple one and it was doing nicely but the same thing happened that you are experiencing. I gave up on it and bought a red goni. The red one is thriving and doing great. Something you can try is putting it on the sandbed with low light and low flow. Also, is yours aqua-cultured or wild caught? If wild caught, youre probably out of luck.

 

[Pistol Peet]

Try different flow

 

[Sick_man]

Also, hermit crab may be messing with it because the goni could be dying already.

 

[Anubisxii]

Gani's need good light and need to be fed and they usually make it just fine. Do some research on youtube tidal gardens has a good video about goni's