Alveopora sulking ?

[Bintis]

Are Alveopora prone to occasional bouts of sulking ? Mine hasn’t opened as fully as usual for the past 2 days. I’ve never kept one before and I’ve had this one for about 7 weeks.

Current parameters:

Sg/Salinity - 1.025-34
ph 8.2
Ca 470
KH/Alk 10.9
Mg 1470
PO4 - 0
NO3 - 25

 

[megrim]

I have a garden of alveopora and at any given time at least one of them is deflated and/or withdrawn. Usually lasts a few days then they're good as new.

Even frags from the same mother colony only centimetres apart can have one fine and one unhappy at random intervals. AFAIK they're just a bit moody.

 

[MrMreef]

They definitely sulk - my 2 sulk randomly for up to about 2 days max, usually just one day.

if it goes on longer check your PO4 - the 10 kH 25 NO3 0 PO4 isn’t a combo I’m familiar with…

 

[mcgullen]

Hi. Is it normal for newly introduced Alveopora to stay retracted for days?

 

[MrMreef]

Hi. Is it normal for newly introduced Alveopora to stay retracted for days?

Depends on how pulled back it is - is it retracted as in you can kind of see where the polyps are (i.e. lumpy flesh) or retracted as in being able to see the hexagonal bone structure with no hint of polyps (I.e. looks like a ridgy rock with flesh covering)?

The first is definitely sulking, the second is really unhappy and should only happen for a few hours after transfer or intermittently.

 

[mcgullen]

Depends on how pulled back it is - is it retracted as in you can kind of see where the polyps are (i.e. lumpy flesh) or retracted as in being able to see the hexagonal bone structure with no hint of polyps (I.e. looks like a ridgy rock with flesh covering)?

The first is definitely sulking, the second is really unhappy and should only happen for a few hours after transfer or intermittently.

It was the former; polyps were slightly poking out of their corallites, but their stems remained invisible.

But good news: they are fully extending now (after 3 days). I suspected that my UV and peroxide residue created strong, oxidating radicals. I turned off UV and they started to extend within hours.

 

[Jphvav90]

I have a garden of alveopora and at any given time at least one of them is deflated and/or withdrawn. Usually lasts a few days then they're good as new.

Even frags from the same mother colony only centimetres apart can have one fine and one unhappy at random intervals. AFAIK they're just a bit moody.

Is this normal? It was opened beautifully then one day looked like this as you can see the one next to it is fine

 

[mcgullen]

Is this normal? It was opened beautifully then one day looked like this as you can see the one next to it is fine

Hi. This is stress and NOT normal: all tentacles are completely retracted.

Any touching of this plug recently that might have injured it? If so, watch out for bacterial infection.

Any change at all to your tank recently? Maybe test all parameters just to double check check there isn't a nitrate or phosphate spike.

 

[Jphvav90]

Hi. This is stress and NOT normal: all tentacles are completely retracted.

Any touching of this plug recently that might have injured it? If so, watch out for bacterial infection.

Any change at all to your tank recently? Maybe test all parameters just to double check check there isn't a nitrate or phosphate spike.

I use the neptune trident and the levels were higher then what the trident was saying. Alk in particular was say it was at 8.8 but hanna checker was at about almost 10. Re calibrated trident and got the alk back down to about 8.8 again everything elses seems ok