How long of acclimation before worrying

[AndrewRosenbaum]

I bought my first frogspawn about 5 days ago. I did the drip method for 3 hours to introduce him to the tank, then put him at the bottom. I've been slowly moving him up over this time.
However, during the whole time he hasnt opened up. Sometimes he is fully closed to the point where u can see the mouth (Its not open, so I don't think it dying). And most of the time he has its polyps/tentacles out a bit, so its mouth is covered but you can still see parts of the skeleton base.

How long should I expect my frogspawn to open up before I start worrying?

 

[BlueCorn]

1. Stop moving him around.

The coral likely hasn't experience as many changes to 'his' daily light intensity in it's whole lifetime as it has in the last 5 days in your tank. Let it stay in one location long enough to get used to it; i.e. open up and behave like a coral again.

 

[RtReef]

I've never drip acclimated any of my corals. All my corals get floated and I add a few cups of tank water during the 30 minute (about that time) float, then I do a dip. No coral has ever died directly from that, in my tank. Thankfully out of 30+ various corals I have only lost about 4.

I would definitely leave him alone for a few days and just let it be.

 

[jsims08]

is there any white film around where the tentacles should be?

I know people are going to flip when I say this but acclimating corals doesn't have to be done. having worked at a major wholesaler i can tell you that we went from box to dip to tank, acclimating them can only cause stress sometimes after all just like anemones all they want is good oxygenated water and acclimating them deprives them of this. I know they had tried acclimating them and saw much higher losses than just putting them in the tanks.

 

[bellis31]

I think drip acclimation for 3 hrs is really long, I only float in bag for temp, then acclimate to the PH and salinity of my water for 45 mins. I also keep the lights off for 2 hrs after adding to tank then I bring up the lights T5 2 bulbs at a time over the next couple hrs.

I agree with the other poster that said stop moving him around give him time to get used to one spot.

My LPS corals all opened up fully after 2 hrs in my tank after acclimation.

 

[RichardinMa]

I don't do much in the way of acclimation for corals either. If the coral has gotten cool I will float it for a bit but that is it. I agree that you need to stop moving it and let it adjust. If your water parameters are good and your lighting is acceptable then it should open in time.

 

[AndrewRosenbaum]

The frogspawn was moved from LED to my t5s which I think are less intense than the LEDs.
I use to just only spend 20 mins to get the temp and salinity acclimated but I bought a big xenia a while back and did that, and they died...So i just just over caution this time.

There was some slime over it when I was transporting it from the LFS but there isnt now. No tentacles are falling off, and he seems healthy, just that he's not fully extending.

I have a filter that makes so much air bubbles that they can be seen from the other end of the tank and it even created bubble pockets in the live rock. Is it possible that too much oxygen can affect coral?