Coral dying?

[SLPMonkey]

Hi all,

Brand new to reef aquariums here. I brought this coral home on Wednesday (would love if someone could ID it too) and it was looking great, however I moved it to a different place in the tank today because I thought it would look better over there, and it curled up and got dark and is looking horrible. I moved it back to where it was before and turned down my lights, and it's looking a little bit better, but still doesn't look great and has some black on the stalk. I included a picture from yesterday, a picture of it at it's worst, and a picture of now.

Is this coral dying? Did my lights burn it? I'd greatly appreciate any advice on what happened and if there is any way to fix it. Also, at what point do I give up and say it died and take it out of the tank? I don't want it to pollute the water if it is sick/dead.

It's in a 40b with 2 HOB AquaClear 500 filters, 3 JVP-110 528-GPH Wavemaker Pumps, and 2 AI Prime lights set at about 60% power for all colors.

Thank you!

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Possibly a Fox coral? With any new corals you need to put them on the sandbed in low to med light and low to med flow, until they've totally acclimated to your system. You also need to let corals acclimate to your lights, usually about two weeks. Then you can start to put them to an area of your tank that each coral prefers not necessarily where you want them to be. If you have a particular place to put something then make sure that the coral you want there is getting all of the light and flow that it wants and needs in that place. Otherwise let the coral tell you where it wants to be.

You also don't mention what your parameters are?

FYI if that is a Fox Coral it is an LPS not a softie. Soft corals have no skeleton IE Leather corals.

 

[SLPMonkey]

Thanks! I'm still figuring out the differences in the types of coral. I will post this in the LPS forum since that coral definitely has a skeleton.

 

[kgeig001]

Yeah, I definitely think it's a Fox

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