IWishIWasAFish
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So, before I trade away a coral my class and I adore, could someone more experienced just tell me I'm diagnosing correctly? Although any awesome solutions would also be welcome of course
I'm including some pics. I put him mid way up the rock work and he was very happy for a while after I got him, all puffed out and smooth, then he shrunk and wrinkled all up like crazy. Like he does if I touch him when moving him, only much worse. So I stuck him under a plastic tupperware with holes in it(thanks for the great idea ) and he got better...so I decided it must have been the shrimp, though I've never caught him - he does like to steal food though, and I've seen him pry it out of a couple of other corals. I can only guess he's prying at the brain after the lights go out. And the tank is at school, so I'm not generally here that late.
Anyhow, I'm only running a bank of 4 T5s on a 37g tall so I don't feel the sand bed is appropriate for him. That, and I don't want to have to keep him under a plastic tub all the time. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a pretty coral So I put him up on top of the rock work, where the shrimp is scared to go...he was better for a few days, but now looks wrinkly and shrunken again
Please look at pics and confirm for me? He's eating well even now, shows no unusual anything, the other corals (mixed softies, SPS, LPS) are healthy, the water parameters are okay though not spectacular (they are the same as when he was happy) I skim, run carbon every couple weeks and have not quite as much as desirable water movement. I also dose calcium and magnesium and do regular small water changes. He's not living downstream or directly adjacent to anything nasty - that's a xenia below him in the pic. The clownfish is new today, so he can't be the culprit either.
Thank you for your help.
I'm including some pics. I put him mid way up the rock work and he was very happy for a while after I got him, all puffed out and smooth, then he shrunk and wrinkled all up like crazy. Like he does if I touch him when moving him, only much worse. So I stuck him under a plastic tupperware with holes in it(thanks for the great idea ) and he got better...so I decided it must have been the shrimp, though I've never caught him - he does like to steal food though, and I've seen him pry it out of a couple of other corals. I can only guess he's prying at the brain after the lights go out. And the tank is at school, so I'm not generally here that late.
Anyhow, I'm only running a bank of 4 T5s on a 37g tall so I don't feel the sand bed is appropriate for him. That, and I don't want to have to keep him under a plastic tub all the time. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a pretty coral So I put him up on top of the rock work, where the shrimp is scared to go...he was better for a few days, but now looks wrinkly and shrunken again
Please look at pics and confirm for me? He's eating well even now, shows no unusual anything, the other corals (mixed softies, SPS, LPS) are healthy, the water parameters are okay though not spectacular (they are the same as when he was happy) I skim, run carbon every couple weeks and have not quite as much as desirable water movement. I also dose calcium and magnesium and do regular small water changes. He's not living downstream or directly adjacent to anything nasty - that's a xenia below him in the pic. The clownfish is new today, so he can't be the culprit either.
Thank you for your help.