Kenya tree deflated?

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So my large beautiful Kenya tree has been deflated for the past few days, and I was wondering if that's a sign that it's going to die? It reproduced prolifically about a month ago, and everything else is doing great. Parameters are dkh 10, CA 420, MG 1450, no3 6, po4 .04.

Here's a before and after shot. I saw a hermit touching it the other day, but no visible damage, and nobody has ever bothered it before. The tank has been up a little over a year and a half. You can see some other babies fully inflated doing fine, so I don't think it's anything in the water, just wondering if they have a life cycle that they reproduce and then die?

Thanks!

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Sometimes they just get upset and deflate for no apparent reason. I have 11 different pieces of Green Nephthea Leather in my aquarium at this very moment and 2 of them are deflated while the others are all bushy. In the next hour or so those two could puff out again a different one will be deflated. I know my biggest colony absolutely hates it when my emerald crab crawls on it and it will deflate for a few hours.

Your zoas are all open and looking good, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
 
As much as my wife loves it, I'd like to take it out and replace it with a hammer coral. It's just been like that for three days now, and nothing has really changed.
 

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