I recently got into reefing I’m starting with a 40g breeder tank that’s been up for let’s say 3.5 weeks my friend that lives very far away from me has been helping me get everything I need to set this up first week I just let the filter run and added bacteria from Brightwell at the week one mark I added a clown fish and have been testing the water the next week I had 0 ammonia and decided to go and get another fish and a piece of coral I wanted to get a goby of some kind particularly a watchman petco at the time didn’t have any and the people there didn’t know much so I picked from what they had and that was an engineer goby I learned now that may have not been the best choice I also picked up two astrea snails and two blue leg hermits one had a bunch of algae and stuff on it’s shell my friend recommended me to get to add some bio diversity I also got a piece of coral that no one there knew what it was but it was cheap and it looked the most alive out of anything there after having that coral in for about a week I think it is a galaxea coral but still am uncertain and it was doing great so I went back and got two more pieces of coral since the first one was doing great I knew I wanted to get a zoa and that’s one of the ones I got which actually has two kinds of zoas on it but I only know one is a Gatorade zoa I’m unsure of the other I also got a leather my friend thinks it’s a devils hand/finger leather both these corals looked great in petcos tank so I thought they’d do alright I’ve had these two pieces for let’s say 4 days the zoa is doing great more and more color everyday the leather on the other hand this is day two of not seeing any polyps getting really worried about it and the the galaxea has one polyps that is shrinking and white any help or input is appreciated
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