Problems with my elegance coral

fishy pa guy

fishy pa guy

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I bought this elegance a few weeks ago and it took 2 days for it to open and look great. The past 3 days it shrunk up and stayed that way all day. It seems to be excreting slime off of it and there was a spot where it looked like its skeleton had a chip out of the one top rib. It is placed on the bottom of the tank with 2 x 250 watt halides and lower flow. The numbers are as follows:
SG 1.026
PH 8.4
PHOS 2.0
Trite 0
Trate 0
Cal 440
I have about 20 other corals in there and nothing else is affected.
The only thing I added since then was a Sohal tang and I never seen him pick on it.
 
veni vidi vici

veni vidi vici

Active Member
Originally Posted by crush4989
http:///forum/post/2626444
what was the lighting of the tank you get if from? It might just be getting used to your tank.
That looks like a indo-pacific to me,Get it out of direct light ASAP and put it in a fully shaded area.Its gonna develope slime every day,so your going to need to slightly blow it off with a baster.Its probably gonna swell up too and you have about a 50/50 chance at best for it to survive.You may want to try a iodine dip as well to prevent infection if it isnt already.Indos dont do well under Direct MH lighting
Good luck.
 
fishy pa guy

fishy pa guy

Member
Originally Posted by Veni Vidi Vici
http:///forum/post/2626570
That looks like a indo-pacific to me,Get it out of direct light ASAP and put it in a fully shaded area.Its gonna develope slime every day,so your going to need to slightly blow it off with a baster.Its probably gonna swell up too and you have about a 50/50 chance at best for it to survive.You may want to try a iodine dip as well to prevent infection if it isnt already.Indos dont do well under Direct MH lighting
Good luck.

DING DING DING We have a winner.
. I moved it today after I read your message and it started opening within 30 minutes. It just had me baffled because it looked so good 2 days after i got it with no problems. I will hope for the best from here on out.
Do you have an idea why the skeleton was chipped in 2 spots? Did it expand too much and crack itself?
Thanks for the help
 
veni vidi vici

veni vidi vici

Active Member
Originally Posted by fishy PA guy
http:///forum/post/2627429
DING DING DING We have a winner.
. I moved it today after I read your message and it started opening within 30 minutes. It just had me baffled because it looked so good 2 days after i got it with no problems. I will hope for the best from here on out.
Do you have an idea why the skeleton was chipped in 2 spots? Did it expand too much and crack itself?
Thanks for the help
chances are it was already cracked,you probably are just noticing now .
Here is mine...it didnt make it.
 
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