Sun coral necrosis?

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Unsure which section to post this in but I’ve had this sun coral for over a year, started off super small and I grew it out and was super healthy, extending every night until sunrise even without food but when I moved it to my other tank it was fine for 2 days then stopped opening and eventually had its tissue getting blown off when I turkey basted it leaving yellow dots all over it, what would cause this? And should I leave it or frag it or iodine dip or cipro dip it, should I move it back into the old tank?
In the old tank it was getting little to zero flow and in the new tank it was getting pretty high flow in the sump



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You mentioned it had low flow before and high flow now. Maybe that was too much of a shock? What about parameters between the two tanks, are they vastly different? Light different? How did you acclimate it? Is there anything in the new tank that could be picking at it? These are just some things I’d ask myself if it were me.

I agree with Kris, move it back. But now it has to recover so it’s not going to show lots of improvement right away, be patient.
 
You mentioned it had low flow before and high flow now. Maybe that was too much of a shock? What about parameters between the two tanks, are they vastly different? Light different? How did you acclimate it? Is there anything in the new tank that could be picking at it? These are just some things I’d ask myself if it were me.

I agree with Kris, move it back. But now it has to recover so it’s not going to show lots of improvement right away, be patient.
The only major parameter change would be nitrates and phosphates, but the two tanks are running on two different salts, would that cause the problem? and originally i put the sun coral into the other tank's sump hoping that it would be open 24/7 but once i noticed the tissue loss i moved it into a shaded spot in the display.
Could it be that there was some sort of plankton or something that it was filterfeeding in the old tank, hence why it opened every night? and in the new tank the plankton or foodsource was unavalible and caused it to starve? In the old tank i was feeding it once or sometimes twice a week and it was still healthy, extending and growing.

I gave it an iodine dip yesterday, would it be a good idea to move it back into the old tank or let it adjust to the new tank and give extra feedings / try to forcefeed by dropping some chopped up shrimp on it at night with the pumps off for a hour, yesterday one or two healthy polyps extended at night to feed and the others just barely peeked open but didnt puff up
 

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