Looking for advice on my corals

[mechengr]

Hey all! Still pretty much a noob when it comes to coral care so I wanted to get some input on a few of mine to see if I need to make any adjustments.

The two in question are my frogspawn, which I've had for 2-3 months now and it has been pretty retracted for a few weeks. The colors look good, but it's about a third of the size it should be. It's essentially at the top of my tank so... maybe too much light?

The second is (I may be naming it incorrectly here) favite or platygyra, which is losing some of its color, I'm guessing due to light focus, but I've also seen a strange white "bubble" that is inflating on it overnight. I didn't get a good pic of that however.

My other corals seem to be doing just fine (large mushroom, zoas, candy cane and a hammer coral) so I'm guessing it's a placement thing? But I'm an idiot and have epoxy'd them in place...

Aquarium paramaters as follows
Nitrate - 10
Phos - .12
pH - 8
SG - 1.025
Alk - 10
Temp - 78

 

[Timfish]

Too much light is one possibility, if you could find out the parameters it grew under that would help. Stress events can take awhile to show up so it might be somthing that happened weeks, months or even somthing that happened before you got it. And keep in mind there's almost always someone who will be unhappy.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Too much light is one possibility, if you could find out the parameters it grew under that would help. Stress events can take awhile to show up so it might be somthing that happened weeks, months or even somthing that happened before you got it. And keep in mind there's almost always someone who will be unhappy.

To add to the last sentence, never try and correct your system for one coral, you can potentially end up making every other coral mad too.

 

[Lavey29]

Numbers aren't bad so I would focus on light or flow as the issue.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Don't worry epoxy is very easy to break off

 

[Timfish]

Numbers are bad so I would focus on light or flow as the issue.

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[Lavey29]

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Sorry typo, should say numbers aren't bad

 

[mechengr]

Don't worry epoxy is very easy to break off

Good to know. Here's the rub. The skeleton of the coral split at one point and fell down, so I had to goober a bunch of epoxy to get it back upright. Should I just try and clean off as best as possible and put on a new frag plug, or are there other options?

 

[mechengr]

I also wanted to point out that the "pocket" next to the frogspawn seems to be a popular hangout spot for my hermit crabs. In fact, there are two of them there in the picture.