All Kenya trees closed

[Caleb423]

Hello this is my first post here, this may be posted elsewhere but I am almost to the point of a panic attack!

Close to a month ago I purchase a 29 gallon that had been up and running for about 2 years. It has 5 Kenya trees, 1 green hairy mushroom, about 20lbs of live rock, live sand, 1 clown, 2 pajama cardinals, 2 hermit crabs, 3 snails, and 2 peppermint shrimp.

The tank was in pretty poor shape when purchased, it had a lot of red cyano, and water test was as follows:

Calcium 100 ppm
Carbonate Hardness 6dkh
Phosphate .25ppm
Nitrate 160ppm

After a good cleaning and a couple of water changes things are getting better:

Calcium 400ppm
Carbonate Hardness 8dkh
Phosphate .25ppm
Nitrate 80ppm
Salinity 1.024

After today's water change I noticed my one of my kenya trees closing up. And after 6 hours they all have. Fish seem to be doing ok. I am new at this so I am un sure of what could cause this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Frankie_Marble]

I went through that years ago with Kenya tree. In my experience, they multiplied after being closed for a few days. To be completely accurate, they took over the tank after that. Lol I wouldn't worry, as long as you keep up with water changes everything will be fine.

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[rt67ghy]

Although your nitrates and phosphates are still very high be careful not to bring them down too fast since the rapid change in parameters can kill corals. 2 X 20% WC every week should be ok though.

 

[OrQidz]

Agree with the above. Just keep slowing improving the parameters. Kenya trees can sulk for several days when there are changes. Sometimes they also close up, then drop some branches to spread themselves around.

 

[VirginiaMarine]

I have had Kenya Tree Corals in my 30 gallon tank for several years. They will go through stages of closing up, dropping babies and just plain growing. One of mine has a base that is about three inches in diameter and has some mushrooms growing on it. When I set up my 75 gallon tank, I threw a small Kenya baby in it just to see what would happen. That one baby attached to a rock and has spread to about 20 Kenyas in the tank. They are very hardy corals, some call them weeds. They are just plain hard to kill in my opinion.