New orange plate coral not happy

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Hi All!
I got my first plate coral a few days ago, and its not looking very happy. I took a video to show its environment and I'm wondering if its getting too much flow. I like its location because its not too near anything else and the current dives right there which takes the food straight down to it. But is it getting buffetted? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSClXlhiLB8 [URL]
 

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Video doesn't work, but IME they don't like a ton of flow. When I first got mine I put it in a high flow area, and the tissue started to recede in a bad way.
 
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They like soft substrate I would clear some of that rubble out the area around it for now.What kind of lights you have.Have you tried to feed him some mysis or anything
 
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Good ideas. I've got some Fiji pink live sand... Maybe I'll just replace some of the sand in that corner. I've got a 6 bulb T5 over a 90 gallon.
 

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