Blastomussa looking sick

daplatapus

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I got this guy in early Nov and when I got him he looked fairly healthy at the LFS but when I put him into my tank he really filled out and looked awesome. Here's a pic Nov 8th:
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As time progressed it didn't inflate quite as much so after doing some reading, I thought it might be in a bit of too much flow and maybe a bit too close to my MH lighting so I moved him further down in the tank and off to one side so it would be in a bit lower flow area. But it has steadily gotten worse. This is a pic taken tonight:
blastomussa.jpg


and a full tank shot where you can just see it on the lower left corner:
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Tank is almost 3 months old. I've had as good of water quality you could ask for the entire time. I started the tank with 130 lbs of fully cured LR that had tons of life on it and never did see a cycle. For livestock I have:
1 YWG
2 Occelaris clowns
1 Starry Blenny
1 Skunk cleaner shrimp
2 Peppermint shrimp
CUC - blue legged hermits, scarlet leged hermits, astrea snails, nerite snails, turbo snails,
1 sand sifting starfish
1 torch coral
1 GSP
1 green button polyp
1 orange button polyp
1 Monitpora digitalis
1 acropora

I think that's it. Tank and system is in my sig.
Here's my water parameters taken today:
Temp: 80.1
S.G.: 1.024 (usually 1.025 but I had my fireplace on today so ATO was probably working overtime)
NH4: 0
NO3: 0
NO2: 0
Mg: 1340
Ca: 390 (I know a bit low, working on it)
KH: 8.0
PH: 8.3
PO4: 0.01

Any thought as to what could be cause my blasto's discomfort? If you need any more info I'll get it.
 
Something picking on it? I don't have a blasto so I can't comment on it's needs... hope it gets better for you bro.
 
Way, way too much light. Put it in the shade, the darkest you can find, and feed it if it looks like it can eat. For future reference those are low light corals and need to be acclimated to tank lighting very slowly, to be honest if you put it anywhere near the top of your tank it's 50/50 as to whether it'll survive.
 
Ok cool, thanks organism. I have lots of little caves and overhangs, putting it in the shade shouldn't be a problem. The shallowest it's ever been is about 4" higher than right now, so I doubt it was ever in the top half of my tank which is 24" deep. I didn't do as much research as I should have on this guy and unfortunately it's paying the price. I'll move it tonight and see how it does in the next few days. Thanks again for the advice.
 
I stuck it in the big hole to the right of the torch where the GSP's are in the tank shot above and moved the GSP. That's about the darkest spot in the tank I think. Hopefully that'll do it. Thanks again guys for the responses.... I hope it makes it :( It was such an awesome coral.
 
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