Anyone else have a lobo that does this?

[Reefkeepers Archive]

For some context, i have a lobo in my system for about 2 weeks, doing great, always has a feeding response when I drop food in, though once every day or two, usually right before the lights turn off, he'll look very upset and have his mouth open without feeder arms. I've noticed no recession and he (usually, almost always) looks fully open, caught him doing it now, usually he stops after ~30 minutes. Any idea what this is?

Normally he looks like this

 

[blaxsun]

Pooping in progress...?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Pooping in progress...?

Maybe.. that's what I'm thinking

 

[Littlesquishy]

Parameters?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Parameters?

Salinity 1.025

Alk ~9

Calcium 490-500

Nitrate 5

Phosphate 0.02

 

[Tcook]

Looks fine. Probably getting used to your system. PO4 a smidge low for LPS but wouldn’t be affecting it this soon. What par is it under? Different than the lfs?

 

[Littlesquishy]

Salinity 1.025

Alk ~9

Calcium 490-500

Nitrate 5

Phosphate 0.02

Magnesium? I think your calcium is high. I would let it fall down to lower levels. Do you dose anything? My lobo is stressed out like yours with less flesh. My sulfur levels was high (1005 ppm). My magnesium is was at 1600 ppm. It has improved a bit with some water changes that have lower magnesium levels. My previous magnesium levels were too high for some of my corals. I ended up losing a number of lps. I am slowly lowering it back to reasonable levels and avoiding magnesium sulfate.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Magnesium? I think your calcium is high. I would let it fall down to lower levels. Do you dose anything? My lobo is stressed out like yours with less flesh. My sulfur levels was high (1005 ppm). My magnesium is was at 1600 ppm. It has improved a bit with some water changes that have lower magnesium levels. My previous magnesium levels were too high for some of my corals. I ended up losing a number of lps. I am slowly lowering it back to reasonable levels and avoiding magnesium sulfate.

Lobo has been Looking great for the last few days, turns out it was just pooping, I dose calcium and alk, kept it consistent for the last few months, rarely check magnesium as it's usually around the stable range, I do feed my tank daily so it would make sense why it did that so frequently. Starting to dose trace elements this week, month 2 with coral so I didn't need to worry about that previously.
Here's an update photo

The missing tissue was damage from shipping and the initial damage from placing it in the tank, doing surprisingly well considering this was a wild caught piece and had 2 burrowing clam holes through it. (Which have since started to heal, they were killed when it was broken off a larger colony)

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Salinity 1.025

Alk ~9

Calcium 490-500

Nitrate 5

Phosphate 0.02

Need to up the N and P

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Need to up the N and P

Trust me, I don't.

Last time they were my leptastrea colony died off practically overnight, best solution I found is to keep my po4 as low as possible, though I still do nightly feedings of fine meaty foods, weekly feeding of polyplab reefroids and spotfeed mysis to larger LPS.

 

[dbaulch83]

Does your flow change around this time? I try and mimic tides in my tank and my lobo sulks a bit as it changes.