what happened to my flower pot?

[timothy t]

New Flower Pot Coral, just 3 weeks old and losing some coverage. Yes, I know that the flower pots are hard to keep. All paramiters are good, lighting is good and current. Do not know if this is new polyps or dying. Any suggestions is appreciated.

 

[tony detroit]

Describe your system and maintenance routine in detail.

 

[timothy t]

The best I can;
55 gallon
Filtration-
Trickle 20gal 600 gph
UV out of sump 300 ghp
3 Power heads in tank, 120 gph ea
Florecent, 3-1800k and 3 actnic, on 12 off 12
45 lb live rock
Ph 8.2
Nit 0
Nitrite 0
ALk normal
Phosphate 0
Temp 79 deg
Additives, iron and coral vit
tank up for 8months
Naso Tang
Powd Blue Tang
Clarki Clown
Osl. Tang
Blemi
2-Grn Chromis
30 Turbo's
1- Lost starfish
2 Anemone's
Also, 5 Gallon Change every other week.
Thank you for any help!

 

[tony detroit]

No skimmer?
Lighting may be not enough. Waterquality may not be also.
Why do you add iron?
Do you run a deep sand bed?
My recommendation:
Try changing 5-10gal of water every week and running activated carbon changed out every week for right now, and work on getting a good skimmer. Are you running RO water or just tap water?

 

[timothy t]

Thank you for the reply.
I do have a;
SeaClone Skimmer - Not good
and do use RO/DI Water
Been wanting to update lighting to Compact Florecent.
Cheers!

 

[dek196]

Does it have good flow around it, mine loves mid to heavy flow. HTH

 

[jb rekit]

Water flow would be my suggestion as well. I initially thought mine had too much flow where I first put him 4 months ago, since some of its arms get whipped around quite a bit, but it opens up great and is very full so I left it where it is. The stony part is about 3" in diameter and when opened, it is about 6-7".
John

 

[poprfd]

i have had a few of them they just do not last your doing nothing wrong they are very very tempremental to anything i have given up on them dont waste the time or money there just not worth it it looks like mine did it is dying

 

[jb rekit]

I suppose he is right, but here is a shot of what mine looks like with high flow.
Does yours still open up during the day?

 

[tony detroit]

I never had any problems with mine. Most people will report that unless you keep a clean tank you'll have problems with them.

 

[jacknjill]

i had one but it died. they just dont generally do tha that well

 

[bergamer]

change the flower pots position, I changed mine when it was healthy as can be and it stopped popping out. (and i bearly changed its position, just a change of 180 degrees in the same spot)
when i changed it back, it looks great once again