I have been having some difficulties with my Green Finger Coral. I have had it for about 2 weeks. I had it in a different location up until a few days ago because the polyps would not come out of the fingers all the way (actually the would only barely come out). I moved it because my LFS where I bought it told me to do that because the original location may not have been the right spot for it. Now, I am still having problems with it. This morning when I woke up, all the polyps were starting to come out. I left my house for about 10-15 min and when I cam back it seems as if the coral has gone limp at the base and the whole coral seems to be turning a light purple color instead of its light green color. All parameters are normal.....ph is 8.2-8.3, ammonia 0ppm, nitrite and nitrate 0ppm, calcium is at least 520ppm, phosphates are 0ppm, and salinity is 1.024. The only other thing I can think to mention is my tank, having already cycled is going through an algae bloom, first it was the brown stuff, and now the brown is subsiding and I am getting what I am assuming is green hair algea (it looks like grass beginning to grow out of the rock). I have 6 hermit crabs, an arrow crab and I am going to be getting some snails for the algae on the glass. Should I try moving it again....or will moving it to soon cause too much stress? I have attached several pics.....sorry for the quality I didnt want to try and remove the algae of the glass in front of the coral because there is not a lot of room between the coral head and the glass and I dint want to stress it out by me scrubbing and hitting it. I tried to show the purple coloration in the second pic. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated. I am just not sure if this is something I need to be concerned about.
Green Finger Coral Help!!
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garygonzales
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i think its just mad from you moving it around so much...so leave it be for awhile...add some flow too..... it like lots of flow...also leather tend to do this ...they will get all shrunken up and shed off there skin...so flow is good for that....then they will open up better then before......also might get better responses in the softies forum....
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skidoctor
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Agreed. Stop messing with it and it will be fine. Softies are easy to grow, but they are finicky. I've had toadstools stay retracted for over a month. It will grow like crazy when it's ready. Each time it's moved or played with is just another setback in terms of when it will want to come out.
Crush Coral
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Mine loves the wave maker cycling which gently blows it from side to side every 6mins. if i shut it off the leather Will start to shriveled.
