Acanthophyllia deshayesiana (Meat Coral) Help

[deaddat]

I've had a meat coral for about two months and I need help keeping it "full" all the time. Randomly it will be full and a couple hours later it will shrink and have it's skeleton exposed. Then I go a few days with the skeleton and once again randomly it will be full again. When it's full I do feed it either Rod's food or Fauna Marin LPS pellets. I also have another brain coral which I keep at opposite sides of the tank and have swapped spots with and the brain is always full.

All of my levels are good and consistent...
temp: 78*F
Calcium: 410
Magnesium: 1400
Alkalinity: 9.2
Salinity:1.025
Iodine: 0.06
PH:8.2
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0

All of the other corals in my tank are doing great which are LPS and a few mushrooms.

The flow in my tank is low due to all of my corals preferring that. I use Marineland LEDs along with ecoxotic magenta/blue leds.

I've tried covering some of the leds to decrease the light, but I guess the next step would be to completely shade the area the meat coral is in? I had it in another spot with more shade and same results.

Any help would be appreciated. Here are pics of it. The only thing I can think of is that the meat coral likes below par levels or it NEEDS silversides, or maybe stop feeding it?

 

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Ouch. The skeleton through the flesh is a bad thing, and when mine did this, I ultimately lost it. It prevents the animal from inflating and eating. GL

 

[deaddat]

Ouch. The skeleton through the flesh is a bad thing, and when mine did this, I ultimately lost it. It prevents the animal from inflating and eating. GL

It's been like this from the start and it just randomly inflates...When it arrived it had algae on the skeleton; I wonder if that could be the cause of it? maybe if i did black out its area it would kill the algae and maybe it would help?

I'm just brainstorming ideas in case anyone has experience with this.

 

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The algae is there only because it has been ripped for sometime. Usually happens in collection and or shipping where the flesh is not supported properly and is allowed to stretch over the skeleton. With meat corals unfortunately they are very fleshy with spikes under underneath which is a recipe for disaster.