New orange plate coral not happy

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Hi All!
I got my first plate coral a few days ago, and its not looking very happy. I took a video to show its environment and I'm wondering if its getting too much flow. I like its location because its not too near anything else and the current dives right there which takes the food straight down to it. But is it getting buffetted? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BSClXlhiLB8 [URL]
 
Video doesn't work, but IME they don't like a ton of flow. When I first got mine I put it in a high flow area, and the tissue started to recede in a bad way.
 
Ah, when I saved it on YouTube I didn't change private to public. Resending it to YouTube now...
 
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And a pic!
 
They like soft substrate I would clear some of that rubble out the area around it for now.What kind of lights you have.Have you tried to feed him some mysis or anything
 
Good ideas. I've got some Fiji pink live sand... Maybe I'll just replace some of the sand in that corner. I've got a 6 bulb T5 over a 90 gallon.
 

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