Soft corals not opening as much

Galasss · Nov 1, 2020

Hi all, I just joined the forum and was hoping someone could help me understand if my corals are doing good. I set up a 6.8 gallon tank about a month ago with live rock from an established system, went through a cycle, took 17 days. At day 20 I added a pair of baby clowns and after a week I added some easy softies being GSP, Kenya tree and toadstool. (Added then 2 days ago) GSP been gradually opening up more and haven’t and seems to be doing fine. The Kenya tree opened up within an hour of adding it but today it seems to have shrank a bit, the toadstool also opened up fairly quickly but doesn’t have the polyp extension it had at the store and on one side the polyps aren’t as extended. What are your thoughts on this? Do the corals seem healthy? Should I do anything? Thanks for the help! I appreciate it.

sfin52 · Nov 1, 2020

They look good. Hows the flow in the tank. Too much flow and both the keyna tree and toadstool won't open as much.

Whats you salinity?
Nitrates
Phospahtes
Alk
Calcium

Galasss · Nov 1, 2020

The flow doesn’t seem to exaggerated, everything just kinda gently flows. Salinity 1.024, nitrates are 10-15 and I don’t have a test kit for the rest unfortunately.

sfin52 · Nov 1, 2020

Galasss said:
The flow doesn’t seem to exaggerated, everything just kinda gently flows. Salinity 1.024, nitrates are 10-15 and I don’t have a test kit for the rest unfortunately.

Everything is doing well. The leather may close up and get all shiny. They do this right before they shed.