Micro are not looking too good!

TCK Corals · Nov 2, 2007

I have a 20 gallon long LPS ONLY tank only with a pair of onyx clownfish. I just started to collect micros and i have three different type and they sit near each other. to make story short one of my micro has not been opening up fully and it starting to recede a little bit near the egde. the only thing different that i did is that i just use loctite gel glue to glue it to a piece of live rock. i fed it last nite it still eat but did not expand to puffy polyp like it did when i first got it. thank you in advance.

salt newbie01 · Nov 2, 2007

It may just be the stress of you mounting it (moving the coral aroung taking it out of the water etc.) Several of my micros will be flat when I get home and stay that way for hours. Sometimes when I have moved mine around or remounted them they will deflate and stay deflated for a day or few days. You probably know this but after glueing the frag put it back into the water coral first (upsidedown) - that way if the glue puts off a little film it will get on the frag not the coral. I lost a zoa frag because I put the frag disc back in the water first and this film from the glue got all over the frag and it killed it. I'm sure yours will be ok. Sometimes they are just a little sensitive!

ReefDoctor · Nov 2, 2007

Ya what he said

cee · Nov 2, 2007

I've had many for going on 3 years and they recently started doing what you described. I stopped feeding them sometime ago, but now I'm convinced they do need periodic feeding, as they've started looking better since getting food.

Also, some of the wild colonies will also do what you describe, IME. Not sure why, though, but I've got one that's been receding for months now and I've seen others do the same.

Enraged · Nov 3, 2007

They are tough as nails so if it is taking food just keep on feeding them.
I had one that lost a battle with Doc's cupids breath chalice and it has come back completely it did take several months tho.