Mynx
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Hi there! I need some help, I recently started up a salt tank, and very shortly after a deal fell into my lap about buying some live rock for cheap with corals and other invertebrates stuck to them for nothing. Well, I have a very nice coral (Leather for sure) that's very very unhappy. I do not have the available testing kits at the moment (like I said, super great deal from established tank that had to be torn down.) No fish.
He was fragged just before the previous owners tank busted a seam, and he hasn't shown any tentacles or anything. He is very big when he's happy he is close to 8 inches in stalk, and same in width of the top there, he is happy on and off. He's not bleached from what I can tell (Pictures don't do justice, he's pink, a very fleshy new baby pink, and his color has never changed.)
I'm thinking toadstool from what I've seen, marine shop says cup coral, but he's very puffy and soft, and not very cuppy at all unless he's bent over and sad.
Everything else in the tank is happy and healthy, all the Zoanthids have opened and eat whatever hits them, the starfish eats, no algae death, no recession of any life at all, tons of micro stars motoring around.
Anybody able to help me? I'm at a loss, he's middle of tank between both watermovers, may be not enough light? Only one fluorescent tube sadly, canopy that came with tank only holds one, but got one from marine shop that says it should be great for our little tank. He seems to like our air curtain if his rock is close enough to it he'll rock around in it and be fully open and puffy sometimes.
Also, how much of a danger is Aptasia to this big guy? I have this suspicion (Wow I'm tired and don't know if that word is correct or not... lol) that I may have some, not near him, but on another rock. Huge threat?
Sorry for this giant wall of text, basically to overview; what is he and what makes him happy?
He was fragged just before the previous owners tank busted a seam, and he hasn't shown any tentacles or anything. He is very big when he's happy he is close to 8 inches in stalk, and same in width of the top there, he is happy on and off. He's not bleached from what I can tell (Pictures don't do justice, he's pink, a very fleshy new baby pink, and his color has never changed.)
I'm thinking toadstool from what I've seen, marine shop says cup coral, but he's very puffy and soft, and not very cuppy at all unless he's bent over and sad.
Everything else in the tank is happy and healthy, all the Zoanthids have opened and eat whatever hits them, the starfish eats, no algae death, no recession of any life at all, tons of micro stars motoring around.
Anybody able to help me? I'm at a loss, he's middle of tank between both watermovers, may be not enough light? Only one fluorescent tube sadly, canopy that came with tank only holds one, but got one from marine shop that says it should be great for our little tank. He seems to like our air curtain if his rock is close enough to it he'll rock around in it and be fully open and puffy sometimes.
Also, how much of a danger is Aptasia to this big guy? I have this suspicion (Wow I'm tired and don't know if that word is correct or not... lol) that I may have some, not near him, but on another rock. Huge threat?
Sorry for this giant wall of text, basically to overview; what is he and what makes him happy?
