Coral question

[beckzilla]

Under good water and lighting parameters is it possible for a Candy Cane and a Trumpet to take over a week to open up after being introduced into a new tank?

 

[i like fish]

I don't think candy canes or trumpets really "open up".

 

[ross]

define "good"
Normally they prolly shouldnt take that long but they may just be getting use to the tank....

 

[beckzilla]

Good means all parameters are within limits. Here is a couple of pics to see what they look like. give me your opinion.

 

[beckzilla]

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[moray345]

those dont look so good oh by the way "I like fish" they do retract at noght

 

[verde_ad]

my candy cane always came out at night. If you look at them with a flash light at night you will see little tenticles comming out of the heads. I would spot feed mine phyto and zooplankton. I believe they do need to be spot fed. Whenever I fed mine they always looked better the next day.

 

[alison]

Hi, it looks especially from the bottom pix, that those lost thier symbiotic zooanthie algae, and so they aren't flourecent as much. If that's it then it could take a while for that to come back.

~Ali

 

[i like fish]

They extend feeder tentacles at night, but stay the same size. Those do look shrunken. Too much flow maybe?