Paulm7373
Aquarium Advice Freak
I bought this soft coral a couple of days ago and it aint looking too good! I took the coral out of the bag it was transported in with water and waited 30 seconds before placing it inside my tank. I placed it on my live rock up high so it was close to my lights as possible. After a couple of hours inside my tank, around three quarters of the polyps opened up and looked like this:
The following day I accidentally left my blue lights on for the whole day until I came home at 6pm to find my coral all closed up and looking like this:
Today (Tuesday) I came home after my white and blue lights have remained on and it is still all closed up and looking the same. I have no idea why it is looking this way now after seeming to do ok on the night I bought it. There is ample water flow around it from my tunze 6025 power heads (one on either side) and my lighting consists of 2 x white T5 and 2 x blue T5. My tank is the aqua one aquareef 195 which is around 200L (50g). My ammonia and nitrite was zero, PH 8.4, and nitrate a bit high at 30ppm. I'm trying to get my salinity down which is around 1.027 at the moment and temp is also a bit high at 33C (91F). My tank has been running for close to 5 months and I have about 30kg of live rock. My fish are 1 x chromis, an ocellaris clownfish, a yellow tang and a small blue tang plus the hawkfish. Would anyone have any idea why my coral is not doing so well and has been all closed up for two days now? Would it have been affected from being under blue light for a whole day and being starved from ample lighting? I'm extremely disappointed about this, so any help would be appreciated thanks!
The following day I accidentally left my blue lights on for the whole day until I came home at 6pm to find my coral all closed up and looking like this:
Today (Tuesday) I came home after my white and blue lights have remained on and it is still all closed up and looking the same. I have no idea why it is looking this way now after seeming to do ok on the night I bought it. There is ample water flow around it from my tunze 6025 power heads (one on either side) and my lighting consists of 2 x white T5 and 2 x blue T5. My tank is the aqua one aquareef 195 which is around 200L (50g). My ammonia and nitrite was zero, PH 8.4, and nitrate a bit high at 30ppm. I'm trying to get my salinity down which is around 1.027 at the moment and temp is also a bit high at 33C (91F). My tank has been running for close to 5 months and I have about 30kg of live rock. My fish are 1 x chromis, an ocellaris clownfish, a yellow tang and a small blue tang plus the hawkfish. Would anyone have any idea why my coral is not doing so well and has been all closed up for two days now? Would it have been affected from being under blue light for a whole day and being starved from ample lighting? I'm extremely disappointed about this, so any help would be appreciated thanks!