Empti
Community Member
Purchased an elegance coral 4 days ago at LFS - it was like 75% expanded at LFS, brought him home and he was grumpy for an hour or two then fully expanded to larger then I saw in store and seemed really happy & enjoyed the copepods/brine shrimp I had fed in my tank. Yesterday I noticed he had what seemed like a little burn mark on a couple of his side peripheral tentacles (closest to the hammer coral I had just moved in next to him) and he was only at like 70-85% extension for the rest of the day. Today he looks horrible, puffed oral disc, partially open/partially closed, looked like he was splitting (bulge in his skeleton beneath where a new oral disc has formed), & what looked like skin recession on his skeleton (red blotchy spots). I moved him down lower (tentacles still sticky) in the tank for less light and turned down my wavemaker/return pump by 25% to reduce flow and he opened up a little bit more but still seems really puffy and contracted.
Other info
New tank 40gal lit by radion xr15 - 3 weeks old (using live rock from old FOWLR tank)
Parameters Temp 25c/77F, Salinity 1.026, ph 8, alk 7.5, calc 400, mag 1200-1300, Ammonia/Nitrite/Phos 0, nitrate 2-5
Pictures
Relatively happy Early Yesterday, fully exposed except maybe on the side of the hammer coral?
Very puffy today since moving him
When I first put him in
Other info
New tank 40gal lit by radion xr15 - 3 weeks old (using live rock from old FOWLR tank)
Parameters Temp 25c/77F, Salinity 1.026, ph 8, alk 7.5, calc 400, mag 1200-1300, Ammonia/Nitrite/Phos 0, nitrate 2-5
Pictures
Relatively happy Early Yesterday, fully exposed except maybe on the side of the hammer coral?
Very puffy today since moving him
When I first put him in
