Will,

do you have pictures of the black tube coming out?
Goniopora are generally not easy to keep. Most people cannot keep them for long, and usually loose them over a period of 6 months to a year ... Your milage may vary.

I've had a green Goniopora for about 10 months that I split into 3 pieces.

1 Piece is on the left side, behind some rocks - doing well. Medium flow, low light, 1/2 burried in the sand.
1 Piece i had between the rocks, high flow & in direct/high light - never extended its polyps, never did well - just last week i took it out, and placed it on the other side of the tank, in low(er) light, lesser flow - we'll see how it does.
1 Piece i have to my sister - she killed it

I've also had a pink one, and it didn't do well at all, ever. I purchased it about 8-10 months ago, and as of last week it's been decladed as dead.

I like to think that the name Gon(e)i-opora fits very well .. especially the first part of it.

"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day and drink beer."

The brown slime you are referring to is an infection on the coral. You need to pick up some coral dip immediately and treat the coral so it doesn't wipe it out completely. It is a common disease of LPS corals usually from damage due to shipping

phytoplex works well for most filter feeding corals but what I found is the best for Gonipora is Cyclopeeze. I'm not sure how well the freezedried works thou, I always stick with the frozen. Good luck

What do I do with this coral dip? whats it called?

My frogspawn and mushroom are fine, their as open as they can be. Mushroom grew about half an in in diameter since I got it. I got the Gonipora from Fish Central, which is were the other corals were from (the ones that died) I got the Frogspawn and Mushroom from Naples Fish Store. I'll tell Josh or Donnie that somehting is wrong with their shipments...That or I'm just having extrememly bad luck.

It did it again today, and it seems that if I feed it, it will open again.

I'm getting a long squirt tube so I can feed it cyclopeeze. I have to turn the pump off right, cause when I tried it last, nothing whent into it, just went around.

Thanks for the replies guys (and gals if any replied)

I figured it out. Theres a worm on the inside of the skeleton bothering it. Josh at FC told me that it might be a worm. Well, it is. I'm trying to get a picture of it, and heres the description.

It's a black worm, that when closed looks like a clam. It can retract into the skeleton only showing a hole. I think it's either some kind of tube worm or a wierd bivalve.

I'll try to get a picture.

My guess is it's a vermetid snail which are sessile and considered harmless in home aquaria. They can be a pain though when they shoot out their muchus web and you have enough flow to scatter it about. Can you describe what you call "zombie slime?" I'm not sure if you're refering to cyanobacteria which comes in many colors.

The coral is fine now. I put it closer to the light and in a lil more flow, and killed the "thing" and it's allways open.

The "Zombie" slime is kinda hard to describe...I think it was due to copper though, because it only happened to the two corals I tried before I noticed I had copper.

It starts out as a clear slime, then over about a day or two, turns light brown and clumpy. It covers parts of the coral, and pretty much acts like an acid. When the slime is gone, theres no coral. I think it is the deterieration of the coral.

Anyway, the Flowerpot is fine now.