Hey guys, I recently bought a goni frag and it looked really good in the store. It was already growing small baby heads down the sides so i knew it wasn’t a recent frag. Anyway I brought it back and acclimated for 45 mins and put it in the tank. It didnt open up that day which i guess is normal for gonis but the second day it still was closed. I moved it to a low light(kinda under the rock) and lower flow area and later that day i saw it extend abit around 1cm. At the lfs it extends 2 inches out. Big difference. Today is the third day and it still doesn’t extend fully. Still 1cm and some heads still closed. I did notice that when it opens, my skunk cleaner shrimp comes to investigate and the tentacles will suck back in immediately. Or even when my wrasse swims by it, that little bit of water movement makes it close back up immediately. What should i do? Move it to an even lower flow area? Leave it where it is and let it acclimate to that spot in my tank longer? The main difference is, the lfs keeps their corals and fish in low salinity. Its 1.016 there and its 1.025 in my tank. I know for sure the 45 mins of acclimation wasnt enough to match salinity but previously i never even acclimated corals from there thinking they kept their corals at 1.025 and they are fine. This was the first time testing their water and found out this big difference. Well i also tested the nitrate from 3 shops and all are close to 100 or way more than 100 on salifert kit lol
Parameters are as below
1.025 SG
Temp 25.6c, 78f
Calcium 460
Dkh 7.5-7.6
Mag 1350 ish
Ph 8.2-8.3 throughout the day
Nitrate 5
Phosphate somewhere between 0.03-0.1(closer to 0.03 than to 0.1)
Parameters are as below
1.025 SG
Temp 25.6c, 78f
Calcium 460
Dkh 7.5-7.6
Mag 1350 ish
Ph 8.2-8.3 throughout the day
Nitrate 5
Phosphate somewhere between 0.03-0.1(closer to 0.03 than to 0.1)
