Maybe a dying candycane

[needmorecowbell]

Does this look bad? It's my first one..

 

[Gti_Leo]

have you done any water tests? hows your PH is it stable? what about lighting? do you have any fish that are picking at it? does it look liek you can see pieces of skeleton?

 

[needmorecowbell]

have you done any water tests? hows your PH is it stable? what about lighting? do you have any fish that are picking at it? does it look liek you can see pieces of skeleton?

I've done water tests..
Ammo 0
Trite 0
Trate 3ish
My lighting is a Fishneedit 4bulb t5ho. 39watt bulbs 2 blue actinics2, 10k whites
No fish go near it and my ph is stable. I don't know how the skeleton looks but the pic is what I have. The base is a different color than the heads. I just got the coral last night at around 8. It is now 3:40

 

[needmorecowbell]

Also, my other corals are doing well.

 

[mr_X]

Looks fine to me.

 

[needmorecowbell]

In the first picture, Is that alright? Why does it stop having the green color? Is it supposed to open up?

 

[mr_X]

These corals build a calcium skeleton and then expose it as they build more. It's perfectly normal to have darkened skeleton at the base. If you see pure white skeleton, that's a different story.
At night they should show some tentacles, but otherwise, that's basically how they look.

 

[needmorecowbell]

Alright, thanks so much I'll check on it tonight. If It doesn't start getting its tentacles out in a week, I'll target feed it until it does.

 

[mr_X]

try feeding a little just after the lights go out. Corals "smell" food in the water column. I don't know how, but they do.

 

[needmorecowbell]

Alright. I guess ill be staking out tonight I guess lol.

 

[melosu58]

Looks fine to me.

I agree that they look good to me also. Follow Dougs advice. You won't go wrong.

 

[needmorecowbell]

Yep, He definitely knows what he's doing. And great, I got confirmation. I'm staying up right now to watch the tentacles feed only a few more hours lol.

 

[needmorecowbell]

It opened last night. I was too tired and didn't take a picture but it was really cool.