Pipe Organ trouble.....

[alexmir]

I bought a pipe organ coral about a week and a half ago, mabye two weeks.
I got it home, aclimated it for 2 hrs, and about 1/3 the polyps came out the first day. About 2/3 the second day, and most all of them the third day.
Now, the polyps havent wont come out at all.
It is placed about mid tank under 200 watt pcs, with medium flow on it. The tank is a 60 gallon corner.
Every other coral is doing amazing, so i dont know whats going on with this guy. Mabye its still getting used to the tank? Could a fish be picking on it? I have never had trouble with fish picking at polyps.
Anyone else have trouble with this coral?
trite=0
trate=10
amm=o
ph=8.2
sg=1.026
temp=78
ca=420

 

[scopus tang]

alexmir, I tried a pipe organ a number of years ago under a similar light and had the same experience. It eventually died. I assumed the issue was the light. Maybe someone with more experience will give you a yeah or na, but I would guess your issue is the lights

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[alexmir]

The lights are only 36" long, so the 200 watts is very compacted.
I was thinking it might have been the lights too, but the thing is that wouldnt it slowly not open, not do it all in one day?

 

[scopus tang]

Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2580061
The lights are only 36" long, so the 200 watts is very compacted.
Yeah, I figured it was something unique when I checked and saw the list of corals that you are currently keeping with this light.
Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2580061
I was thinking it might have been the lights too, but the thing is that wouldnt it slowly not open, not do it all in one day?
Sometimes, but I have had corals that simply closed up and never opened up again (this one was one ~ again, maybe it wasn't caused by the light, don't know for sure). Where you feed it at all?

 

[alexmir]

I gave it some cyclops one day, but havent gotten a chance to feed it since. The tank is a corner bowfront, so its not really wide. only about 40 inches across, so i could only get 36 inch lights.
I have no idea what is going on with it, i dont really think its the lights, but i could be wrong. Mabye i just got a bad piece. I wish i knew if it was doomed or not, i might could get store credit back for it and they could have a chance of saving it.

 

[grabbitt]

Pipe organs like a lot of light... 200 watts of PC may be giving you the trouble.
But they also tend to be completely bipolar. Mine was open and happy for about a year straight until one day the polyps retraced, as it usually does at night, but they never extended the next day. This was about two months ago. After a month or so of being closed consistently, they started opening back up, but they've been finicky ever since. Unfortunately, this is just their species' nature.

 

[alexmir]

thanks for the help, hopefully mine are just being brats. What lighting did you have yours under? They are so pretty, so i am hoping that they do ok, they guy at the LFS had his in an aquapod with stock lighting, i think its been in there for a while and it seems to be doing good.
So yours did okay being retracted for a month?

 

[grabbitt]

Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2580235
thanks for the help, hopefully mine are just being brats. What lighting did you have yours under? They are so pretty, so i am hoping that they do ok, they guy at the LFS had his in an aquapod with stock lighting, i think its been in there for a while and it seems to be doing good.
So yours did okay being retracted for a month?
Mine is under 150 watts MH 14,000K. It's not a sure bet that its your lighting, since I also had mine under 75w T5 for about four months and it did fine. It did come back after a month, but now it's giving me a hard time again

Here's mine when it's happy

 

[alexmir]

Mines much smaller than that one, the polyps are bright white. Hopefully it comes back, im hoping that it just got freaked out being in a new tank.
Ive read that they can be very finicy corals. I'll just have to wait and see.

The annoying part is that im combatting a hair algea problem, so im keepng the lights off for a few days. I guess they wouldnt be open during those days anyway.

 

[alexmir]

I just realized something, the other day the pipe organ fell into a patch of blasto merletti, and it freaked the blastos out really bad. It looked like they melted, but turned out to come back even bigger and brighter in two days, but thats when the pipe organ started staying in. They have come out one time since then, but do yall think that might have caused it?

 

[grabbitt]

Originally Posted by alexmir
http:///forum/post/2580397
I just realized something, the other day the pipe organ fell into a patch of blasto merletti, and it freaked the blastos out really bad. It looked like they melted, but turned out to come back even bigger and brighter in two days, but thats when the pipe organ started staying in. They have come out one time since then, but do yall think that might have caused it?
I would say the pipe organ was more harmed by the initial impact of hitting the merleti's than the blasto itself. Blastos tend to be fairly passive as far as stinging goes.
...But this is not certain. I may stand to be corrected...
Either way, both elements could cause a pipe organ to recede for a little while.

 

[alexmir]

The blasto came back2 days later even bigger than before, so it handled it pretty well. Hopefully it was just the impact that freaked it out, Ill post back when it does better or dies....

 

[alexmir]

Well three polyps are out for the past 2 days, so i know its going to make it, at least part of it! So now im just waiting for it to completely recover from whatever pissed it off.
Thanks for the help