Hi,
I had a fire skirt frag (two heads with a new one forming) that used to open up pretty wide but suddenly stopped. I had taken it out last week to scrub some algae off of the frag plug (had a diatom outbreak that has since died down) but it hasn't opened back up since. I took it out yesterday and used a qtip to try and rub off light areas where there seemed to be darker algae growth on the outside and ran it under freshwater (read on the forum that might help) but it still hasn't shown any signs of opening up. I have other zoas that entered the tank at the same time and had some algae growing that I scrubbed off but all are open. I placed them under the same lighting and flow. Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be happening or if I should try something else? I wonder if I bothered it by doing too much and if it's better to wait but I also don't know how to tell if this particular frag is going under and don't want to lose it if I can save it. All my other corals (branching GSP, euphyllia, other zoas/palys, green hairy mushroom, duncan) all are doing fine.
I had a fire skirt frag (two heads with a new one forming) that used to open up pretty wide but suddenly stopped. I had taken it out last week to scrub some algae off of the frag plug (had a diatom outbreak that has since died down) but it hasn't opened back up since. I took it out yesterday and used a qtip to try and rub off light areas where there seemed to be darker algae growth on the outside and ran it under freshwater (read on the forum that might help) but it still hasn't shown any signs of opening up. I have other zoas that entered the tank at the same time and had some algae growing that I scrubbed off but all are open. I placed them under the same lighting and flow. Does anyone have any suggestions for what might be happening or if I should try something else? I wonder if I bothered it by doing too much and if it's better to wait but I also don't know how to tell if this particular frag is going under and don't want to lose it if I can save it. All my other corals (branching GSP, euphyllia, other zoas/palys, green hairy mushroom, duncan) all are doing fine.