my wellso shrunk??????

[kpk]

Does it look like it has shrank to any of you. Here is a pic from when i first got it and one from lately.

 

[kpk]

after feeding yesterday

 

[kpk]

1 more today, look better or worse

 

[007]

looks more inflated which gives the false appearance of being smaller. IMO anyway.

 

[kpk]

So 007 do you think it is more healthy or what? It stands alot taller, but not as spread out.

 

[kpk]

bump

 

[007]

I am not 100% on this but here goes my intuition . . .
I would say that yes it looks healthier.
IMO, spreading out more is an attempt to create more surface are to catch light, hence more food.
If its not stretch/spreading as much it must have enough food so it is healthier.
Just a logical thought process thats all . . . . no factual basis on this unfortunately.

 

[mattk]

I've had the same coral for about 6 weeks. It went through lots of expansions and contractions throughout the day with mostly expansion and tentacles showing at night for the first 4 weeks. Lately it has spent all of the time very contracted. I started to spot feed it at night a few days ago and it seems much better ie more time expanded with feeding tentacles extended. I have read wellsos like to be spot fed and I will continue to feed mine. Interestingly I have an green open brain coral that is doing exaclty what the wellso is doing latley depsite expanding massively during the day and contracting at night for the few months I had it prior to obtaining the wellso. Other corals seem fine. Only correlation is the recent introduciton of Xenia which has tripled in size in 3 weeks.
30gal and they're under 1x175w MH6500K and 2x40w 03s.
matt

 

[kpk]

Thanks 007, makes alot of sense.
Matt, when I first got mine the feeder tentacles where always out during the night. I started feeding it the next day and they don't seem to hardly ever be out. I feed it about 2 silversides every 3-4 days. Maybe it doesn't need to extend all the time sense it's full.
Where's a pic of your tank matt, sounds nice?

 

[chsreef]

Mine does the same thing from time to time. I've had it around 8 months. It seems to puff back up after a water change. Mine never shows feeder tentacles so I spray it w/ some mysis and then place silversides on a couple mouths. It eats them right up.

 

[kpk]

Isn't it weird, because waterfallers well. tentacles are always out, light and all. Maybe ours are just not hungry at all.