New corals slow to open?

Vic73 · Jul 17, 2019

I’ve had my tank cycled for two months now and have five fish doing well. I add four small corals pictured that haven’t opened up or look like they did in the store.

All ammonia, nitrate and nitrites are good with 1.024 salinity. Any thoughts on what I can do to help? Tried different placement and less white light and more blue but nothing seems to work.

just4plaay · Jul 17, 2019

How long have they been in the tank? I've added corals that open within minutes and I've added Coral that can take weeks. Actually my GSP didn't open for almost 10 days. definitely stop messing with it though, every time you touch it or move it you're upsetting it and delaying the process of it getting comfortable.

just4plaay · Jul 17, 2019

Also, all of your photos look to have really white lighting. What lights are you running?

Vic73 · Jul 17, 2019

just4plaay said:
Also, all of your photos look to have really white lighting. What lights are you running?

This LED lighting with white and blue I left the light on for the picture. I do see that they get upset every time they move so I guess I’ll just continue to monitor if you don’t have any other advice.

Bayareareefer18 · Jul 17, 2019

What type of coral?
What type of flow?
How about alk, ca, and mag params?
Maybe your params are ower at 1.024 if they came from 1.025/1.026
How about ph? I know after my cycle my ph and alk had really fallen

Vic73 · Jul 18, 2019

Bayareareefer18 said:
What type of coral?
What type of flow?
How about alk, ca, and mag params?
Maybe your params are ower at 1.024 if they came from 1.025/1.026
How about ph? I know after my cycle my ph and alk had really fallen

Two power heads, aqua clear 70 and protein skimmer for 55 gallon tank.

1.024 for almost two weeks straight

Ph a little low at 8.0