Kenya Tree (?) Shrivled

[kiaya611]

I bought a tank complete (LR, sand, fish, coral, critters, etc.) and It has been up for about 3 weeks now and everything seem to be doing well except my Kenya Tree (at least that is what I think it is). It has never fully opened and mostly looks like the pic attached.

Can anyone tell me what might be going on?

Specs:

Temp: 80°F
pH 8.0
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
SG 1.023
Calcium 420
dKH 6
Don't have a Phosphate test kit

Dose:
Essential Elements - 1 cap full per week

Feed:
Zooplex
Liquid Gold

Lighting:
2 @ 65w 10000K PCs
2 @ 65w 6500K Actinics
2 @ 5500K "grow bulbs" (added for additional light) I am saving for a MH fixture.

Placement:

About 4" from top w/ mild water flow.

Tank:
75g Reef w/fish

Frogspawn, Pulsing Zenia and mushrooms doing well.

Thank you for your help.

Steven

 

[singold]

I used to have a mother Kenya Tree coral that flourished great & spawned many coral frags. Problem was, it was in my neglected 10 gal tank. It was the only happy coral. Point I am making, I personally think this coral like higher nitrates, phosphates, etc.
Just my opinion, others may have had different results.

 

[squidy3]

I have a mother kenya and a bunch of frags. Kenyas are very tough. I have yet to kill one. I just slice and dice and toss them into my frag tank without acclimating. Yours looks like it is pouting. It doesnt look like its dying so I would give it a little more time. You may want to try placing it towards the bottom of the tank. My tank is 31" tall and my kenya is on a rock on the sand bed.

 

[DThompson]

I doubt it has anything to do with the water quality as suggested. I would think this is a flow problem. Either that or something like a shrimp or crab is irritating the hell out of it. I would lean more towards a flow problem. Try moving it. I have one that a shrimp loves to irritate. Does it ever open?

 

[Remn]

I personally think your parameters are a bit low for a coral reef tank. I think your dKH should be around 8 and salinity at 1.025 and keep em stable at that.

 

[TVH]

Mine does that whenever the light is too low or the flow is too high.