help with bubble coral

[scarpenter]

Our tank has finally finished its neverending cycling and is stocked and parameters are still great. So, we started adding corals this weekend. I bought a green and a white bubble coral. They were both full and beautiful at the store. Anxiously came home and placed them in the tank. They are both in approx the same lighting, same water flow....the green is doing awesome. It looks like a huge pod of grapes. The white one has really small bubbles but its tentacles are still out and sweeping but it will not get as full as it was in the store or as the green one. We keep relocating it and nothing seems to be helping. Eveyrthing else we bought seems to be flourishing as well. We bought a branching hammers that is extending dramatically every couple of hours, a pipe organ and a leather. This is the only one not doing well. We do not have very high lighting which is why we chose the bubble as we were told low to moderate lighting. Can anyone help?????

 

[scarpenter]

I can't believe all of you are looking without posting?????

 

[RichConley]

put it in low flow low light, and leave it alone. The more you play with it, the more its going to be ****ed off

 

[Gimplar]

be careful when you buy bubbles because if the peope at your LFS arnt well educated enough, they may not know htat if you pull a bubble coral out of water before it fully deflates, that it runs a risk of the water inside the coral to actually tear it's tissue that can result in the demise of the coral. Be careful, and observe how your LFS pulls bubbles out of the tank. Now my green bubble was pulled out of the tank the correct and took about 3 weeks for it to open up fully.

 

[scarpenter]

No...it took them about 30-45 minutes to completely deflate each one b4 removing from the water. I bought them at the same time and put them in the tank one right after the other. The green has inflated to about 3-4x its size...the white one has tiny,tiny bubbles. Do you think it will be ok if I leave it alone a while?

 

[Gimplar]

Possibly, place it in conditions close to the green one and maybe it just needs some time to adjust? GL and keep us updated.

 

[scarpenter]

The green one is in low lighting but actually has quite a bit of water flow...we thought we would tryi him there as it was a "perfect" place for him. The white one had a similar place and was flourishing....then my husband adjusted and redirected some of the jets and it wasn't doing too well. So, I moved it and now ......well I am getting worried. I will try to figure out how to post photos.

 

[scubasteve247]

wow u guys sure do make it difficult, i work at a LFS, when i sell a bubble, i just fill and bag with water and place the bubbel inside the bag under the surface, this way the bubble never even touches the air.

i have a beautiful pink one myself.

never had any problems,
for a happy bubble, good water params, good lighting, feed food occasionally, ie mysis, defrosted silversides/shrimp, etc. and even phyto, ive had very impressive reactions to spot feeding phytoplankton.


bubbles dont do well in high, to moderate high currents, it aggitates the tissue to much. try a gentel current in direct lighting for good results, and like mentioned earlier, do not move it, bubbles are amazing corals and very easy to keep IMO. if you put it in a good spot, leave it alone, it will comeback.

good luck
happy reefing
-kyle