New zoa help (Oscar the grouch)

[mpw213]

Hey everyone. So a week ago I added a single polyp of Oscar the grouch and it opens even at night but not completely. Just wondering if there’s a way to tell if it’s getting too much or too little light by looking at it…. But my guess is I should just leave it alone for a while.

For background when I was cutting the bottom of the frag plug off the zoa detached and went flying across the room so I had to find it and re-glue it. Then a hermit flipped the frag upside down that first night. Otherwise not issues lol. It placed it at the bottom of my very shallow 2.5 gallon lagoon tank and it’s kind of looked the same. Yesterday I moved it further away from a Duncan and closer to my other zoas that are doing well. Parameters are all fine and I have about 15 other types of zoas all doing well (except new GMK that are slowly starting to look better)

 

[Ice]

Give it some time, especially when stressed with being placed into new lights/flow and water parameters it can take a few weeks to come around. Do you happen to know roughly the par it's at right now? As I get new picky zoas I'll let them acclimate in maybe 70-80 par and when fully open for about a week or so introduce them to more par/flow.

The good news is it's not fully shut, in that case I would leave it where it is.

 

[mpw213]

Appreciate the input. That’s what my gut was telling me but nice to hear from someone else! I’d guess it’s around 75 par because it’s kind of shaded by a frag rack. The very top center of my tank is 300 and I have it on the bottom and off center