Etoimos
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A week ago we picked up our first couple of corals and this Goniopora was one of them:
Of course it was all closed up after the transport and re-homing, but it was extended a little bit with in a hour or so of being in our tank. With in a day, it looked like the photo above.
This past Saturday, we picked up two more of them (the wife really like them).
With in hours one of them looked like this (the flow is off so it looks a little wilted in the pic):
But the biggest and most expensive one bought (actually the wife used her own money to buy it :eek2: ) has not been doing as good as the other two.
I initially placed it high up on the rocks and in more direct flow. The large closed up one at the top left is Number 3, the one in the nook on the top right is Number 2, and Number one is hidden just behind it in this photo:
After a few hours in this location, this is the best that it looked:
It did not open up any over the course of the next day and started to look a little pale, so I moved it over closer to Number 1 (still a bit higher than the Number 1). This is the best it looked after a couple of hours in that location:
I thought it was going to be happy there, but a day later it looked like this:
Worried that my wife's expensive Goni was going to head south quick, I moved it down to the sand bed this afternoon. This is what it looked like right after moving it:
As you can see, the other two Gonis are doing just fine. Any thoughts on what is causing this one issues? Is it just having a harder time adjusting to my tank and I should leave it alone and let it acclimate?
Here are my water parameters (Red Sea test kits and Apex controller) as of this afternoon:
Temp: 79.1 avg
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.6
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrites: .05 ppm (I fed some raw shrimp pieces this morning, so I think that is where that came from)
Nitrates: 2 ppm (test kit is only accurate to 2 ppm)
KH: 9.52 dKH
Ca: 410
Mg: 1100
My lighting is a 250w MH at 14,000 Kevin color temp.
Of course it was all closed up after the transport and re-homing, but it was extended a little bit with in a hour or so of being in our tank. With in a day, it looked like the photo above.
This past Saturday, we picked up two more of them (the wife really like them).
With in hours one of them looked like this (the flow is off so it looks a little wilted in the pic):
But the biggest and most expensive one bought (actually the wife used her own money to buy it :eek2: ) has not been doing as good as the other two.
I initially placed it high up on the rocks and in more direct flow. The large closed up one at the top left is Number 3, the one in the nook on the top right is Number 2, and Number one is hidden just behind it in this photo:
After a few hours in this location, this is the best that it looked:
It did not open up any over the course of the next day and started to look a little pale, so I moved it over closer to Number 1 (still a bit higher than the Number 1). This is the best it looked after a couple of hours in that location:
I thought it was going to be happy there, but a day later it looked like this:
Worried that my wife's expensive Goni was going to head south quick, I moved it down to the sand bed this afternoon. This is what it looked like right after moving it:
As you can see, the other two Gonis are doing just fine. Any thoughts on what is causing this one issues? Is it just having a harder time adjusting to my tank and I should leave it alone and let it acclimate?
Here are my water parameters (Red Sea test kits and Apex controller) as of this afternoon:
Temp: 79.1 avg
Salinity: 1.025
pH: 8.6
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrites: .05 ppm (I fed some raw shrimp pieces this morning, so I think that is where that came from)
Nitrates: 2 ppm (test kit is only accurate to 2 ppm)
KH: 9.52 dKH
Ca: 410
Mg: 1100
My lighting is a 250w MH at 14,000 Kevin color temp.
