New Coral Added - placement questions

[chaserdogg01]

Hi everyone,

I got 6 new soft corals today:

Pulsing Xenia
Branching GSP
Ricordea Florida
Anthelia waving hand
Clove polyp lemon laser
Green toadstool leather

I added them about 4 hours ago and the Xenia and anthelia are drooping a ton. Please see attached video. Are these in areas with too high of flow? Is this normal regardless of flow? First coral so tons of questions and want to make sure I’m doing everything right.

Thank you all!

 

[TheSheff]

I don't see the video lol

 

[KochergenJ]

No video was attached but just some food for thought.

Xenia, gsp, and cloves will grow and grow. If you dont want them taking over, give them an island. If placed together, expect one to out grow the others. I put gsp and cloves onto their own island, which they took over and grew together, but now the gsp is winning that battle.

 

[chaserdogg01]

No video was attached but just some food for thought.

Xenia, gsp, and cloves will grow and grow. If you dont want them taking over, give them an island. If placed together, expect one to out grow the others. I put gsp and cloves onto their own island, which they took over and grew together, but now the gsp is winning that battle.

Sorry about that, here’s the video!
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[chaserdogg01]

No video was attached but just some food for thought.

Xenia, gsp, and cloves will grow and grow. If you dont want them taking over, give them an island. If placed together, expect one to out grow the others. I put gsp and cloves onto their own island, which they took over and grew together, but now the gsp is winning that battle.

Here’s how they’re looking this morning. Xenia and anthelia don’t look to be doing great.

Are these beyond repair? Slowly adding light back and lifted up my powerheads a bit to take some flow off them directly. They were both on the bottom of tank but looked awful so raised then to rocks they’re on now.

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[BryanM]

New corals always need several days to adjust so generally I wouldn't be too worried yet.

Though the flopped over nature is worrisome to me. Looks like there's more than enough flow.. What's the lighting situation and water parameters, and age of tank?

 

[chaserdogg01]

New corals always need several days to adjust so generally I wouldn't be too worried yet.

Though the flopped over nature is worrisome to me. Looks like there's more than enough flow.. What's the lighting situation and water parameters, and age of tank?

They were doing the same thing when they were on the bottom with less flow. Do you think they’re getting too much now?

Still slowly ramping lights up to reduce stress on them. The lights I have are from WILLS off Amazon, full Spectrum, 165W. Planning on bringing them up to 4/10 on blue and 1/10 for white level.
Parameters are: sg 1.025, ph 8-8.15, phosphates 34 ppb, mag 1200, calcium 485 and nitrates 5-10.

Tank is about 7 months old now.

Thank you!

 

[BryanM]

They were doing the same thing when they were on the bottom with less flow. Do you think they’re getting too much now?

Still slowly ramping lights up to reduce stress on them. The lights I have are from WILLS off Amazon, full Spectrum, 165W. Planning on bringing them up to 4/10 on blue and 1/10 for white level.
Parameters are: sg 1.025, ph 8-8.15, phosphates 34 ppb, mag 1200, calcium 485 and nitrates 5-10.

Tank is about 7 months old now.

Thank you!

Maybe a touch too much, but its hard to say when they are clearly not happy.

Hopefully someone with more experience chimes in shortly.