Flower pot coral upset help!

I have a flower pot coral and it is inverted and has been for about two and a half weeks I tested my water yesterday and everything was good and within perimeters. My LFS suggested dosing Iodide 1ml per 50 gallons they said it would soothe the coral ......any thoughts

 

What do you mean by "inverted"? A pic always helps if you can post one.

I recommend highly against dosing iodide unless you are testing the levels. Your salt mix has it, nothing uses it to any measurable degree, and an overdose can wipe out your livestock. Gotta love the LFS. :

FWIW, the flower pot is one of the most difficult corals to keep. If you still see polyp extension, you might try target-feeding it by spreading a cloud of pureed meaty foods and/or zooplankton around it with pumps etc off.

 

Mr.Bill is right on. I've seen my LFS kill a million of these things and the guy just continues to order them in for some reason.

 

I'm thinking you mean "receded" when you say "inverted" right?

they call the Flowerpot/goniopora "rent-a-corals" in our LFS. They are beautiful but they don't last, usually 6-9months in the home aquarium if you're lucky. I have seen some reefers keep theirs past 1 year but it may just be luck. I have kept two and they both slowly receded and died in about 4 months.

Trouble is you never know at what point the coral is at when you get it. I wouldn't do anything drastic to try and save it as this may just be its time. From my exp with them, if it's been receded that long, then it's a telling sign that it's on the way out.. I wouldn't dose iodine as the LFS suggest, def not.

 

Problem with these corals is that, they like "dirty" water, where as we strive to keep our tanks at perfect conditions. My LFS never has a problem with these guys because they keep them in a dirtier tank. You usually don't see these corals kept in tanks that have SPS and other corals that require pristine conditions.

Never dose for something you don't test, especially if recommended by the LFS.

I would try to bring it back, or do your best to try to make it happy, but as everyone has suggested, they're hard to keep for long periods of time.

 

Here is a picture I did go ahead and target feed it some phytoplankton

 

Yes receded....oops I can see how they are rented...

 

Unfortunately, that is what happens, they will slowly begin to recede, less and less extension, until just that little white puck remains. I agree they like dirty water, which doesn't help them in the home aquarium.