Green flower pot coral?

AWESOME FISH!!! I love the colors. I know thats not yours, but still, awesome fish.

Really cool you brought the flowerpot to your LFS and it left a baby behind. Maybe it will grow, but if not, no biggie. I agree with the rest about the flowerpot and I have never been brave enough to try a flowerpot because I have never heard of anyone having any success with them. Way to fragile for my taste.
 
Grins said:
Don't beat your head too much Annette, all of us have regretted more than one thing we've done in the hobby.
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Amen to that.. I can't tell you how much $ I have lost because I bought a coral that I didn't research first and found out after the fact my tank was not the correct conditions for that coral. This may be your first time doing it, but I have a problem with impusle buying nice looking corals, and have bought the wrong corals for my tank at least a dozen times. Nice corals at a LFS are my one extreme weakness I admit. I can leave nice looking fish behind and come do research to make sure they will be ok, but when I find a great looking coral I am afraid I wont see it again so I have to buy it.. very wrong thing to do.
 
Ace, I'm the exact opposite of you. I *pretty* much know which fish are okay for my tank and which aren't, but if I come across a good one that I know I want, I have trouble passing it up for fear I won't see it again. But corals I have been pretty good about researching them and asking lots of questions before I buy them because I'm afraid to spend money on something so beautiful and then kill it, I just can't stand that. Yesterday, I made the exception on the flowerpot because I wasn't spending money. And honestly, it wasn't my tank that hurt it, it was me and my poor handling of it. :( It may not have lived a long time in my tank, but it looked good all the way through acclimating it, which I took like 4 hours. I should have figured out a good spot for it before I started messing with it. I'm not adding anything else for a good while, I need to start seeing some growth. I have that orange ric coming next week, that'll be the only new addition for at least a month or so. Cross my heart!
 
Well you will save a lot more money that way than I have.. fish are cheaper than corals, and most fish you can monitor for a few days to see if it will be ok, if not, bring them back. With corals, most LFS don't like taking them back, and even a day or 2 in the wrong condition tank can be deadly to a coral. Not to mention the placement problem like you experienced.. I have experienced that myself on many occasions.. corals falling, not placed correctly, etc. Moving the corals around usually does more harm than good as I have found out the hard way over the years. Leathers are especially fragile to being moved alot.
 
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