Green slimer not opening

[John08007]

I picked up many frags a few weeks ago. Everything seems to be opening except the slimer. I think I saw Its polyps sticking out one time in the last 2 weeks. It's still the same color as when I received it, so I assume it's doing fine.. This is my first venture into sps corals after having lps and monti's. Do these feed ar night and extend their polyps when the lights are out? Few times I did look when the lights were out it looked the same

 

[Flux Capacitor]

Do you have a picture? Acros feed at night, and in past tanks they would take a few days to settle in and show their polyps. My current tank however, everything seems to be fuzzy as can be all day long. At night the polyps do extend further showing a feeding response, but they are always showing them.

 

[John08007]

Do you have a picture? Acros feed at night, and in past tanks they would take a few days to settle in and show their polyps. My current tank however, everything seems to be fuzzy as can be all day long. At night the polyps do extend further showing a feeding response, but they are always showing them.

It's always hard to get good pics. For some reason I can't take pics and upload them, it says they're too large so I take a pic, then screenahot it, then upload the screenshot.

I haven't looked much through the night. Would squinting some reef roids on it with the lights off bring out the feeding response? I was thinking maybe it's getting enough through the light that it doesn't need the polyps out to feed.

 

[Garf]

If you get a low powered light at night to backlight it you may see something like this;

 

[Flux Capacitor]

If it hasn’t lost color, or it hasn’t started receding at the base I’d just let it be see what happens. Does it have any encrusting one the plug? It’s really hard to tell from the photos.

 

[John08007]

If it hasn’t lost color, or it hasn’t started receding at the base I’d just let it be see what happens. Does it have any encrusting one the plug? It’s really hard to tell from the photos.

It does look like the green tissue is starting to cover the glue used to attach it to the plug. That may be a good spot to watch to see if its growing, I didn't think about looking there.

 

[ocboat]

It's hard to tell but that doesn't look like a slimer to me. It looks more like a smooth skinned acro which doesn't polyp out like a slimer in my experience.

 

[IanK]

I agree, not a slimer

 

[John08007]

Well thank you, I was worried that there was something wrong with it. I am 99% sure I did see polyps out one time. Any idea what it is then so I can Google pics of it.