Need help with first coral

Agree with it being a toadstool and that it's just acclimating. It's fairly bulletproof when it comes to corals... it can tolerate different levels of light and flow without demise.
As others have noted, it will take several days to sometimes a week or so to acclimate. And it will also retract at night some days. It may be sloughing and if that's the case, it will look like that for several days to a week. Hard to tell given how recent you added it to your tank.
As for parameters, you may want to bump up nitrates to 10 ppm or so and phosphates to 0.1 ppm. Toadstools prefer nutrient rich water.
They will grow quickly and get rather larger.
From what I can see, you're on the right track. Just give it some time...
Glad to hear that thank you so much
Based on the surrounding substrate... im guessing this tank is fairly new? Not seeing much aging of the live substrate....
It's been set up for 4 months now
 
Update, one of them looks mad happy but the other one looks idk...
 

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I had petco leathers take months before finally opening up, all depends on their original conditions.
They are nuclear bomb proof, it takes a lot to kill it. Whenever even slightly stressed leathers will close up, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes days!
 
Looks more like a thick finger lobophytum than devils hand to me. Close relatives, thick finger just has wider projections.
 
Guys is my coral on risk if my new clowndfish has brooklynella?
Well recently i brough a clowndfish but apparently he has brooklynella and killed all my (5) fish.
I still have 2 live rocks , the coral and nails.
Are they going to survive to it or everything is lost?
 
Coral and inverts can’t get brook, but can bring it in to a tank when added. If you fallow for 6 weeks then the tank will be good as new (quarantine new fish).
 

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