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I picked this coral up a few weeks back. I thought it had very interesting color and it was very cheap, only $20. I brought it home and it looked great. A few weeks have gone by and it has been doing worse and worse. I had it in moderate light on my sand bed under my Iwasaki 15k's and medium to low flow. I have other brain corals right next to it that are doing great. My parameters are pretty stable, all other LPS and SPS are doing well and growing. I use a dosing pump to maintain Cal/Alk and they are around 460/10dKh. My temp is around 76-78, salinity is 35ppt, nitrates are below 10ppm. As I said all my other corals are doing well so I don't think it's a water quality issue. I've included some pics so you can see how it has changed. The first pic was taken 3/9 which was the week I got it and the second pic was taken today, 4/4. Is there any hope for this poor coral?
I've tried feeding it but it doesn't have any feeder tentacles that come out. The only feeding response I have observed is a overall swelling of the tissue. I have placed food on top of the mouths and even placed a container on top to keep the cleanup crew out but it just doesn't seem to eat.
On the underside of the corals skeleton there is a broken off branch, as if this was a single head of a larger colony that was broken off, I'm not sure if that will help with species identification.
3/9/09
4/4/09
I've tried feeding it but it doesn't have any feeder tentacles that come out. The only feeding response I have observed is a overall swelling of the tissue. I have placed food on top of the mouths and even placed a container on top to keep the cleanup crew out but it just doesn't seem to eat.
On the underside of the corals skeleton there is a broken off branch, as if this was a single head of a larger colony that was broken off, I'm not sure if that will help with species identification.
3/9/09
4/4/09
