My marine flower pots and polyps dont come out does any body know why?

i have a 8 gal marine acquarium, i have 36 w light bulbs one white and one acnitic and my polyps and flower pots dont come out as they did at the acquarium is it because i need more light or what?

My marine flower pots and polyps dont come out does any body know why?
Flowerpot corals require much higher lighting and have specialized nutritional needs. Even seasoned hobbyists have problems keeping them alive in captivity, so they are generally considered a difficult species to care for.





Polyps will also need more lighting, but they are generally more hardy than other corals. What are your water parameters (temperature, salinity, pH, ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates)? Also, what type of filtration and flow do you have in the tank?
Reply:flowerpots are related to goniopora and need more light the store probably has then under VHO light or halides. and by polyps i assume you mean zooanthids? certain kinds need more light, other don't...





is this what you meant by flowerpot


http://www.centralpets.com/critter_image...





or this?


http://www.petsolutions.com/images/200/1...





the first need good light the other doesn't at all. theier polyps mostly come out at night.











- i'd actualy dissagree on the hardyness of goniopora. i got a frag from my LFS about a month and a half ago, and it's doing splendid. i haven't really given it any special treatmeant, just what generally gets done to the tank.


it's even surviveing a beating of sand from my sleeper goby.


now either i'm very lucky or goniopora is hardier than mentioned.