Hi Everyone,
I hoping someone here can help me with this as I am starting to get worried. I admit that I do not know too much about corals as all my previous experience was with a fowlr tank. I just set up a 9 gal nano, the Aquamedic Nano Wave 9 infact, which I am not too impressed with but that is a different issue. The cycle on this tank has been completed for at least 1.5 weeks, clean up crew was added and everything was fine. I decided to order my first coral and a small colony of zoanthids. I ordered some frogspawn from Marinedepotlive and (from what I can tell) when it arrived the coral had receeded into its skeleton so far that the sharp edge had cut thru the plastic bag. It had been sitting in basically an empty bag at temperatures of under 70deg for probably 12 hours in a UPS store before I recieved it. (the bottom of the box being wet is generally not a good sign) I followed the instuctions they included in the box if something like this happened they said to just introduce it into the tank. As it was not in water there is no point in trying to acclimate it.
I did this and after biting my nails for several hours watching it, it seemed to be doing alot better. One of the branches had begun to fill out. Greatly relieved I went to work that afternoon and returned home to find it looking much better, 3 of the branches where showing decent growth However when I got up this morning and turned the lights on for the first time ( I had them off since introducing them into my tank) All of the branches had sunk back into its skeleton and looked almost as bad as when I first got it.
This my first ever coral, and it arrived in less than optimal conditions so I am very worried about about it dying on me. 3 of the 6 branches have had no change since I recieved them and the other 3 , one of which I though was doing extremly well, have all sunk back to where it ws when I first got it into my tank. Is this common? Does anyone have any advice?
the tank paramaters are
ph 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0.01
Nitrate 7.5
SG. 1.025
Thal
I hoping someone here can help me with this as I am starting to get worried. I admit that I do not know too much about corals as all my previous experience was with a fowlr tank. I just set up a 9 gal nano, the Aquamedic Nano Wave 9 infact, which I am not too impressed with but that is a different issue. The cycle on this tank has been completed for at least 1.5 weeks, clean up crew was added and everything was fine. I decided to order my first coral and a small colony of zoanthids. I ordered some frogspawn from Marinedepotlive and (from what I can tell) when it arrived the coral had receeded into its skeleton so far that the sharp edge had cut thru the plastic bag. It had been sitting in basically an empty bag at temperatures of under 70deg for probably 12 hours in a UPS store before I recieved it. (the bottom of the box being wet is generally not a good sign) I followed the instuctions they included in the box if something like this happened they said to just introduce it into the tank. As it was not in water there is no point in trying to acclimate it.
I did this and after biting my nails for several hours watching it, it seemed to be doing alot better. One of the branches had begun to fill out. Greatly relieved I went to work that afternoon and returned home to find it looking much better, 3 of the branches where showing decent growth However when I got up this morning and turned the lights on for the first time ( I had them off since introducing them into my tank) All of the branches had sunk back into its skeleton and looked almost as bad as when I first got it.
This my first ever coral, and it arrived in less than optimal conditions so I am very worried about about it dying on me. 3 of the 6 branches have had no change since I recieved them and the other 3 , one of which I though was doing extremly well, have all sunk back to where it ws when I first got it into my tank. Is this common? Does anyone have any advice?
the tank paramaters are
ph 8.2
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0.01
Nitrate 7.5
SG. 1.025
Thal
