What's wrong with my scoly?

[typicaltony]

I bought this early this year and everything was fine until I bought a bad batch of saltwater for my wc from a lfs. It would not puff up anymore and has been in this state for 2-3 months now, it's still eating and sending out tentacle at night but just would never puff up.

I have it in a 25 gallon AIO tank under kessil led, I run a IM skimmer along with an IM reactor filled with carbon. Also running poly filter pad, purigen and blue life clear fx pro. Flow is controled by a MP10wes and stock return pump. The tank is mixed reef with mostly LPS (plates and lobos) and a few softies, sps, and zoas/palys. Nothing else is effected like the scoly, everything is happy and healthy as can be since the bad batch of sw incident.

To be honest I rarely check my water param, i just go with how my corals look. WC is done every 2-3 weeks with Brightwell Neomarine and top off is manually done daily. The scoly sits to the right in a partial shaded area and with low flow to recover ever since the incident. Gets fed with fauna marin lps pellets atleast once a week.

 

[bfam4t6]

I would try more feeding and with more variety. My scolys get fauna Marin along with a local brew of 10+ different frozen meats blended together. Simple mysis would be good too.

I lost a beautiful bleeding apple scoly a few moths back, and I swear it was from under feeding. During my attempt at revival, I moved it next to two other scolys in a different tank. Those two are still doing well. The bleeding apple didn't make. I think it was simply too weak to eat by the time i made my feeble attempts to correct the issue.

At any rate, good luck! I hope you get it figured out!

 

[typicaltony]

Thanks for the tip, I will increase it's feeding with more variety from now on... hopefully he'll go back to his normal self soon.

 

[Reef4reef]

I dripped and found hundred of worms , I hate scoly coral :D

 

[Duffam3434]

I always heard dont feed too much.. I feed mine meaty foods about once a week and add Oyster Feast and Phyto Feast for all the corals daily. And our Scolys have Never had any issues.

 

[typicaltony]

I always heard dont feed too much.. I feed mine meaty foods about once a week and add Oyster Feast and Phyto Feast for all the corals daily. And our Scolys have Never had any issues.

gotcha, I've been bumping up feeding to twice a week with a bit more pellets in the feeding than before.. he seems to be eating it but doesn't look like hes improving much but also not doing any worse.

Still hasn't puffed up yet, where do you guys place you scolies? up front and center? shaded? also what about flow? mine is currently getting minimal flow right now.