Cyphastrea advice

[Austin Weinerman]

5 days ago I brought home 2 frags of cyphastrea (meteor shower and ppe). The meteor shower had some damage from other corals stinging it at the store. I got a new rock to put these 2 frags on so they wouldn’t invade any other corals (I know, over time one will eventually take over the other). So I put the rock with the cyphastrea in the middle of the sandbed in an area that has pretty low flow. The lights that I have running are Kessil a80 and Finnex Marine 2. The tank is a 20 gallon cube. Since adding them to my tank, they seem to not be doing so well. I noticed some red/brown on the sides of the meteor shower right after I added it to my tank, and today I noticed some red/brown on the ppe as well. Any advice on what to do?

 

[Cnidoblast]

worth dipping them and moving them to rather low light - they burn easy

 

[Austin Weinerman]

worth dipping them and moving them to rather low light - they burn easy

I was hoping being on the sandbed would be low enough, I guess not. I do have some shaded areas I could try. The weird thing is on the ppe, the part turning brown is being shaded while the part exposed to the most light is staying bright green.