plate coral

[merlin33bc]

my plate coral is staying closed and i cant figure out why. its been closed for about 3 days now. it still eats when i hold food right att he mouth and it doesnt seem to be losing color. it just sits there with about 5 tentacles out and thats it. any ideas on whats goin on? i checked my parameters and everything checked out good except my PH is a little low.

my acans, my cap and all of my zoos are still doing great. i just dont know whats goin on with my plate.

Robert

 

[AIMFish]

Is it on the substrate or rock? To much current? Crabs, or fish bothering it? Oh, and while I'm asking questions do you do body work on your own/home garage or just at the shop?

 

[merlin33bc]

its setting on the sand. its in medium flow (which has always seemed to make it happy before). i havent ever noticed anything bothering it. sometimes hermits will come try to steal its food though.

bodywork at the shop. i try to stay away from too much extra curricular. im only 21 and still learning

 

[AIMFish]

Oh, I just reread the first post. Is the low ph due to a low kh? If the coral was looking good before and just started acting this way try to think what you may have changed around in/with the tank, powerheads, light cycles, dif. chemicals, new livestock, stuff like that. It may have been an improvement but sometimes the change is enough to make corals respond unfavorably.

 

[merlin33bc]

The only thing i can think of is that i had to move my frogspawn around a little cause it got knocked off of its perch but other than that i havent changed a thing.

Last night and today the plate seems to be getting over whatever was bothering it. i moved it over just a bit onto a new patch of sand. maybe it just needed a little more flow?