new wellsophyllia - stringy?

[everl0ng]

hey guys, i just bought my first brain coral yesterday. it is a green wellsophyllia. well when i got it home and acclimated it i noticed that it was releasing this white and brown stringy mess. i assumed it was from being moved, touched, and stressed. this morning when i woke up it was doing the same thing. is this normal? this is my first brain coral, and i just want to make sure. i have it placed on the sand under my 150w mh, and it is in slightly moderate water flow. my parameters are as follows: ph 8.3, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0, temp 80f, sg 1.025. thank you in advance!!

 

[otiso777]

Mine did the same thing for a couple days after I placed it in my tank. The brown strings are probably excess zooxenthallae being released. That was over a year ago now and the coral has more than doubled in size. Seems to me that this is normal behavior caused by the stress of moving and acclimating to different tank conditions.