If so, how do I get it to eat? I have had it for a week and it hasn't eaten yet. I never see any feeders come out. I try different times during the day but not at night because it closes up as soon as the lights go off. I thought they came out at night? I'm a little concerned because it seems to be receding a little since I first got it.
Is this a lobo?
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I think it's probably in med-low flow. The powerhead is on the other side of the tank and it is pointing up, so the flow goes across the tank first, bounces off the glass and has to come 1/4 of the way back across the tank before it hits the back of the coral. I don't really have anything in the bottom of the tank to gage the flow, but I'm guessing that since I have one powerhead with a 500gph rating and a return pump rated 220gph maybe it's more flow than I think? It's a 29 gallon tall tank. The water from the sump is returned on the same side as the powerhead so there's nothing blowing on the same side as the coral.
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Judging from the picture does it look healthy? I haven't seen any response to when I try to feed it and don't know enough about them to know if its healthy or not. I don't usually get coral from the pet store because I know of a local guy who has healthy stuff, but I traded in some stuff and they only give you credit towards livestock and I didn't need any fish. I'm already nursing the other coral that I got from them and can't really take on another project. Neither can my system for that matter. If it doesn't look healthy, then I'm going to give it to someone who can save it. I'd hate for it to die because I got it and couldn't take care of it.
Judging from the picture does it look healthy? I haven't seen any response to when I try to feed it and don't know enough about them to know if its healthy or not. I don't usually get coral from the pet store because I know of a local guy who has healthy stuff, but I traded in some stuff and they only give you credit towards livestock and I didn't need any fish. I'm already nursing the other coral that I got from them and can't really take on another project. Neither can my system for that matter. If it doesn't look healthy, then I'm going to give it to someone who can save it. I'd hate for it to die because I got it and couldn't take care of it.
It looks healthy to me. Hard to tell without looking at the back side, but if you're not seeing any recent recession of tissue from the skeleton, I'd say it's doing just fine. That's the telltale I look for in a LFS - if you see a definitive line of stark white skeleton along the tissue's edge, you know the tissue has receeded recently... recent enough that coralline algae hasn't covered the skeleton yet. That's usually not a good sign.
Your flow sounds OK. What kind of lighting you have it under?
Your flow sounds OK. What kind of lighting you have it under?
This poor guy definitely looks worse. It was a slow recession the past two weeks so I wasn't sure but this is how it looks today. I don't think this poor guy is going to make it. I've started another thread here http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2279747 that I'm going to keep posting in instead of using this one.
