Help with scolymia

nam2212

nam2212

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I have had the coral for about a week. I put it on the sand bed the first few days. It never plumped up and didn't put out feeders at night. I did some research and thought maybe I had it in too much light or too much flow. I stuck it in a cave a little so that it was shaded from the LEDs. It looked great for 3 or 4 days. It plumped up a little and extended feeders at night almost like it was turning inside out. Then it stopped yesterday. I pushed it farther back under the overhang so all of it is shaded and it is out of flow. It looks about the same and didn't extend feeders last night. I tried placing krill on feeders after lights out but it just pulls the feeders back in and lets go of the krill. Any advice?

Day 1:

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Day 4:

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Today:

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I tested again today and levels are as follows:

pH- 8.0
Ammonia- 0 ppm
Nitrite- 0 ppm
Nitrate- 15 ppm

I think the nitrates are up because I have been trying to get the scoly to feed.
 
Have you tried cyclopeez? My scoly will put its feeders out in the middle of the day for those. As far as plumping, give it time to adjust to your LEDs it took mine a few weeks to look happy under my LEDs
 
Zalman said:
Have you tried cyclopeez? My scoly will put its feeders out in the middle of the day for those. As far as plumping, give it time to adjust to your LEDs it took mine a few weeks to look happy under my LEDs
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I feed cyclopeeze flakes to the fish daily. It doesn't respond. Did it look like mine when it was unhappy?
 
Give it some more time and make sure the flow is gentle. Also try feeding at night with all pumps off. It will slowly respond. sometimes scoly takes time to settle down.
 
nam2212 said:
Hmmmm.......It is much more drawn up than the others I have seen. It just doesn't look very happy to me.
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Mine go through many phases of expansion and contraction throughout the day. If the tissue isn't peeling away you're best to just leave it alone and give it some time. And try some smaller foods, like frozen mysis or brine shrimp, maybe even try putting a couple small pellets on the oral disk.
 
seapug said:
Mine go through many phases of expansion and contraction throughout the day. If the tissue isn't peeling away you're best to just leave it alone and give it some time. And try some smaller foods, like frozen mysis or brine shrimp, maybe even try putting a couple small pellets on the oral disk.
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OK. Thanks. I will leave it alone for a few days. It just looks strange to me. The white spots closest to the camera in the picture below look like where the skeleton is poking through the flesh.

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Mine throws its feeders out when there is like no flow. i.e. when I lost power - it put its feeders out right away. It does look fine in those pictures though. at least nothing to be concered about at the moment.
 
Zalman said:
Mine throws its feeders out when there is like no flow. i.e. when I lost power - it put its feeders out right away. It does look fine in those pictures though. at least nothing to be concered about at the moment.
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I appreciate it. I was in NYC on a business trip this past weekend and the power went out at my house in Memphis. My girlfriend was there to make sure everything was OK. She called me when the temp dropped to 76 but that is as low as it got. It was only at 76 for a few hours. I got home to a very ****ed off scoly last night. It is even more drawn up and I can see more of the reallt sharp parts of the skeleton poking through around the edges. Still no feeder extension either. I am just leaving it alone for the time being. Hopefully it will get used to the tank.
 
nam2212 said:
I feed cyclopeeze flakes to the fish daily. It doesn't respond. Did it look like mine when it was unhappy?
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It probably won't respond to flakes. Get some frozen cyclopeeze or rotifiers. Defrost a cube and fill up a syringe. Take off your pumps and squirt the rotifiers all around the mouth and disk. Wait a few minutes and see if it responds. If you see any feeders come out (doesn't have to stick them way out), place a small piece of silversides on the feeder. It should stick to the feeder and eat it.

If you don't get a response, dump the rest of the rotifiers in your tank and turn on your pumps. The rotifiers circulating around the tank may also trigger it to start feeding. You may have better luck trying this when the lights are off but mine often open up during the day if I put rotifiers in the tank.

If you get it to eat a piece of silversides, it will likely feed alot easier the next day. If so, feed it daily for 3-4 days, then go to a twice a week schedule.

Your scoly doesn't look that bad, its not receeding tissue it just needs some nutrition. You need to work on getting it to eat. Once you do, it will become easier to feed. And when I say a piece of silversides, I cut off the head and tail and then cut the body into 3-4 pieces depending on how big the silverside is.
 
Ferguson1977 said:
It probably won't respond to flakes. Get some frozen cyclopeeze or rotifiers. Defrost a cube and fill up a syringe. Take off your pumps and squirt the rotifiers all around the mouth and disk. Wait a few minutes and see if it responds. If you see any feeders come out (doesn't have to stick them way out), place a small piece of silversides on the feeder. It should stick to the feeder and eat it.

If you don't get a response, dump the rest of the rotifiers in your tank and turn on your pumps. The rotifiers circulating around the tank may also trigger it to start feeding. You may have better luck trying this when the lights are off but mine often open up during the day if I put rotifiers in the tank.

If you get it to eat a piece of silversides, it will likely feed alot easier the next day. If so, feed it daily for 3-4 days, then go to a twice a week schedule.

Your scoly doesn't look that bad, its not receeding tissue it just needs some nutrition. You need to work on getting it to eat. Once you do, it will become easier to feed. And when I say a piece of silversides, I cut off the head and tail and then cut the body into 3-4 pieces depending on how big the silverside is.
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Would krill be OK? I am going to have to get rid of my peppermint shrimp to be able to feed it.
 
You can feed it krill if you want but I prefer silversides. Your best bet to tempt it to feed is to use rotifiers or cyclopeeze.
 
coralreefdoc said:
Go with silversides and/or mysis. Silversides being the easier to feed efficiently

Just feed your peppermint shrimp first
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I feed the tank mysis. It hasn't responded to anything since day 3 or 4. I will add new photos to show the current condition. I have tried feeding the peppermint and the cleaner first but they just finish theirs and try to steal it from everyone else. I am going to have to remove the coral or the shrimp to target feed.
 
Updated pics. It still looks unhappy to me. I have tried mysis, brine, flakes and krill so far. It hasn't reacted to any.

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It probably needs more light. Its not getting any nutrition from feeding so it needs light. Don't place it up high and shock it but put it out in the open on the sandbed.

All the food you've tried is bigger stuff. It will respond to that once its feeding regularly. I've only had success with rotifiers or cyclopeeze when trying to prime them to start eating. You should be able to get a pack of frozen rotifiers or cyclops for around 5 bucks.
 
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