Help me save my Florida Ric

[bluelair]

When I got him, he was attached to this piece of rubble, and he did well for several weeks. One day I found him de-tached and bouncing around the tank. I read-up on re-attaching them, and the methods say to rubberband or use bridal veil, but here's the problem, he's closed up like a taco-shell, so the bottom part is not visible.

I've had him sitting on this piece of rubble for like 2 weeks waiting for him to at least open up so I can reattach him, but I can't band him to the rubble else he can't open. I tried to gently pry him open with my fingers, but that seemed like trauma, plus it didn't work, he released tons of slime, so I stopped.

He's sitting on a piece of rubble at the front of the tank. My Korallia is off because with it on he flies around the tank, just the nano-wave filter and skimmer are providing current in the tank.



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[Racing1]

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[madadi]

if thats what it looks like now, i would leave it there. it should reattach if its in a low flow area. looks fine to me

 

[bluelair]

9 gallon Nano-wave tank, 2 fish (one ocellaris, one damsel, 1 coral banded shrimp, 2 hermit crabs, 2 snails.)

48 watts of the standard lighting (24w actinic, 24w daylight), 8.5h/day, tank parameters are fairly normal, 1.024 salinity, 0 ammonia/nitrate/nitrite. I run the stock skimmer, ceramic filter media and the sponge filter on the final stage.