Recently, I picked up a blue sympodium for my mixed reef.
The tank is full of soft corals, with a few lips and some sps. Everything is doing great, and I'm unaware of any parameter changes recently. The sympodium looked great for a couple of weeks and would occasionally restart for an hour or so like all soft corals. When it was open, it had great polyp extension, and even grew a bit.
Then it close up an hasn't opened in over a week. Any ideas of what might be causing this and if it is an issue or if it is a normal phase they go through. My first idea was that there may be some chemical warfare going on with all the soft corals in the tank. Because of this, I just changed the carbon in my carbon reactor about a half hour ago, but I thought I'd ask here as well. Please advise if you've owned this coral and have any insights.
The tank is full of soft corals, with a few lips and some sps. Everything is doing great, and I'm unaware of any parameter changes recently. The sympodium looked great for a couple of weeks and would occasionally restart for an hour or so like all soft corals. When it was open, it had great polyp extension, and even grew a bit.
Then it close up an hasn't opened in over a week. Any ideas of what might be causing this and if it is an issue or if it is a normal phase they go through. My first idea was that there may be some chemical warfare going on with all the soft corals in the tank. Because of this, I just changed the carbon in my carbon reactor about a half hour ago, but I thought I'd ask here as well. Please advise if you've owned this coral and have any insights.
