help with bubble coral please

ryansc

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Not really sure what's going on with my bubble coral.
Feeding tentacles are always out and half of it is closed. The other half is open really far. Exposing the mouth.

Here is a link to a pic.
http://i.imgur.com/aSnNIqA.jpg

Water stats
Alk 9.2
Mg 1380
Ca 470
Po4 some yellow shade. Hannah checker coming from Santa Seachem test really hard to read
Ph 8.4/8.6 depends when
Temp 76.7
Salt 1.026
Big 3 all zero
 
From that picture, it looks ok to me. I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you want though, you could feed it a little and see how it responds. GL.
 
I was feeding it once a week and he would get whatever mysis floated into him. But then I read not to feed or dose amino acids.

It always eats up whatever it catches or I give it. But about 3/4 days ago he released zooxanthellae. I think anyway it was one huge brown sludge looking stuff and a few white strings.
 
Sometimes they'll do that. (pooping) It's looks cool though. Give it some time before you do anything drastic... GL.
 
I have two (a white one and a green one) and they are often in that state (especially later in the afternoon/early evening).

I wouldn't worry about it.
 

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It's slightly bleached. I have a electric green one about 30 cm in diameter which has a higher population of zooxanthallae than yours mine is 60 cm away from a250 w Arcadia halide your one will recover given time but pleogra sinuosa need to be feed on a weekly basis to stay healthy. They need to adjust to lighting slowly or will bleach.
 
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