KittenBoo
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So my we brought this guy home today. Actually my husband did. I'm thinking there's too much flow for him. Thoughts? He looks stressed. Hasn't opened up since we got him in the tank & he's got stringy mucus all over.
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Parameters?
BoneXriffic
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Age of tank and lighting as well?
If you just got him today, he may still be unhappy from the change in water parameters. When I get new LPS like torches, hammers and frog spawns, they usually won't open up fully the first couple days.
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This plus they sometimes need to aclimate to new lighting .
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KittenBoo
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Ok.... I'll have to go into the book and get the exact parameters. I don't know them as he does that stuff. Our tank has been up for several years. We've had corals before but got rid of them all when he was in the RN program because he didn't have time. Just getting back to reef from a fish only. Looks like it might be shedding it's color now. Eek! Doesn't look good at all. Let me find his boom so I can get parameters.
It's dying!Ok.... I'll have to go into the book and get the exact parameters. I don't know them as he does that stuff. Our tank has been up for several years. We've had corals before but got rid of them all when he was in the RN program because he didn't have time. Just getting back to reef from a fish only. Looks like it might be shedding it's color now. Eek! Doesn't look good at all. Let me find his boom so I can get parameters.
My torch coral had that mucus thing and for 3 days he had that mucus it died.
hard to tell from the pic, but it might be brown jelly. If so, your best bet is to dip it and see what happens. More than likely it's not going to survive. I had a torch do the same thing out of no where. Did you find the parameters?
Salty1962
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They do not like a lot of flow and you have to be careful handling they to not tear the tissue. Handle from the bottom only. They also move around, so don't have any sand bed corals you don't want to lose. I lost a nice echinata colony because my plate mowed it down
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KittenBoo
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He died. [emoji17] Super bummed. Apparently the are hard to keep. Told my husband not to bring one home again that we haven't researched first. Uugghh. Thank you everyone for your help though.
Sorry to hear it. Don't beat yourself up over it. I've had the exact same thing happen to torches in a stable and mature system. Corals are finicky creatures.
