New Frogspawn, advice needed.

[Kopczynski]

I picked up this octo Frogspawn from my lfs yesterday and when it first opened up the polyp extension was really nice. 24 hours later it seems to have receded a bit, anyone know what I'm doing wrong or what could be fixed?

 

[scooter31707]

I will give it a couple of days to settle in to it's new environment. What are your parameter? Alk, Ca, Mg? What type of lights are you using?

 

[Kopczynski]

I am running the current marine orbit LEDs with whites at 75% blues at 100%
the parameters are
pH 8.3
Phosphate 0
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Calcium 450
The coral looked better now less of the skeleton was showing.

 

[organism]

That's a lot of white light, make sure it's in the shade to slowly acclimate to your lighting since if it gets burned it'll take a while to come back.

 

[Kopczynski]

Okay I adjusted the lights to the coral acclimation mode hopefully by slowly raising it will minimize the receding. Thanks for the help.

 

[organism]

Personally I'd keep it in the shade until it's looking better and opened up, until then moving it into any more light will probably do more harm than good.

 

[JRob722]

Skeleton looks healthy. As mentioned...less light is propably in order.

 

[Kopczynski]

First off thank you guys for the help. My fault for not mentioning that coral acclimation mode on my lights drops the whites to 50% and blues to 75% and shortens the time they are on full time to 6 hours a day. Thanks again.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Also make sure it's in an area of low flow.