Clove Coral

[1boatnut]

I have a very unhappy clove coral and need to figure out why.
I originally had it middle of tank towards the front and it semed very happy.
Its a 29 gal tank with 130w pc.

I bought a hairy mushroom and because of the size I had to move the clove. I put it towards the top and for awhile it was very happy. Flowing so much it was touching the adjacent mushrooms. I moved it 1bout 1" over so it would not touch the mushromms,and ever since it has not been fully opening.
I moved it to the bottom left side and still no luck.

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[cloak]

As long as it's not going to touch another coral, your just going to have to pick out a good spot and leave it there. Give it a month in one spot and see what happens. All the handling and moving is probably tripping it out right now.

 

[1boatnut]

Thanks. Actually it was all over the mushroom,thats why I moved it over 1 inch.

It looks like part of the colony has died off:worried:

 

[captstinky]

you might be getting die off from the physical contact with the 'shroom. Cloves are pretty tough and should bounce back. Leave it in one spot with moderate flow, w/o touching other corals and give time. I do target feed mine if I want them to multiply fast. You could use official meaty foods, or even small amounts of hard boiled egg yolk.

 

[1boatnut]

Thanks everyone.
Actually I found out yesterday it is a Blue Xenia
To me it looks like it all died off