Here are the pictures of my acantophyillia which I had mentioned in a previous post, his mouth has now closed, will he strech over the empty part of his skeleton? this is my first acanto, so is this sort of stuff normal or can he easily recover?
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Oh, is it bleached? Under blue light it has green dots and a overall a light purple color, under white lights it looks really ugly colored but at the LFS it had these colors of light blue, green dots and a purple outline which is why I bought it, it looked like this at the LFS but the guy told me that he had fed it which is why it was like this, there were filter feeding worms attached onto its skeleton but I cleaned them without damaging any of the coral. I tried to take a photo under blue but the camera doesn't pick it up, the only inhabitants of the tank are conches and a skunk cleaner shrimp who doesn't bother corals. I'll try to refeed him this night, but he's in a area of very low flow, will that harm him?It looks bleached to me but I know you mentioned the beautiful colors so this might just be from the camera not capturing accurately.
Flesh wise I do not see damage. Yes they can retract and expose skeleton like that.
I believe these feed at night. Try turning off lights and flow and drop some mysis on the mouth and wait 10-20 minutes and see if it eats it or shows any feeding signs. It might need a few days to adjust to your tank
Ok, thank you so much! I should not switch the coral right? Because this was the most beautiful one out of the ones at the LFS but was also the only one that was "retracted" like this.In the picture it appears bleached but I am not saying it actually is. Just that the lighting in the picture is probably not capturing how it looks in person
Low flow should be ok. The cleaner shrimp might try to steal food from it. Need to keep an eye during feeding times. Sometimes people have to put a cover over the coral to keep shrimp from stealing. 2 liter soda bottle cut off at the neck area is a cheap diy fix
445nm Royal BlueI would say give it a day or two. What lighting do you have ?
445nm Royal Blue
460-470 nm Blue
20.000K White
660nm Deep Red
420nm Violet
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