What's in your scoly?
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occ_motorcycles
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Cool story and nice coral!
Oh my! Great that you found it and went to so much trouble! By the way, I think I am in the lead of being the worst photographer!!
That is a beautiful Scoly.
That is a beautiful Scoly.
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ReefPops
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Thanks everyone. So far steady. Looking for it to color up a little more. I'm thinking its going to be moved over to my newer tank where there's no shrimp. Hard to feed it when the blood shrimp steal from it (its eating, but slowly). I just get nervous to move it. On one end I don't want to stress it out more, but on the other it will have less stress in the other tank which is empty. I think the next few weeks will hopefully be the turning point (in a good way). I realized though that other than pictures, I never actually saw the scoly at its full potential.
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ReefPops
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Well, an update but not a good one, although not for sure bad either. The scoly was moved into the 45 where there are no shrimp to steal it's food. I have realized how much recession is actually has. The bad news, I don't know if it's receding more or if this is just left over from before. I have a much better view of it in its new location so it could have been that I just didn't notice. When it's puffed up, you actually can't even tell that much. So, just keep your fingers crossed that it improves and doesn't head south. It's been slow to eat, but since being in here I only tried Fauna Marin LPS food. I found some scolys that aren't happy don't like this too much. I'm going to try some bits and pieces from Rod's Reef later and hope for the best. Coloring still looks good although a totally different spectrum now being in LEDs.
occ_motorcycles
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How's it recovering?
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ReefPops
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So so. Since I moved it is has been average happy. I'm not happy with how much recession I see, but I don't know if thats new or old since in the old tank it was shaded and in a hard to see spot. I also didn't like touching it because I just wanted to leave it along. I have a much better view of it now since it's near the front of this tank so I'll be able to see if it's getting worse. It got a dip before the move so hopefully that will help it out. Fingers crossed. I was going to try feeding it, but it looked like it wanted nothing to do with that tonight
occ_motorcycles
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Maybe the next few days will make him hungry. I Iam correct if he gets enough food from the algaes in him he won't open for other food. In shade he was hungry but maybe under the better light he is good now.
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ReefPops
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He's still in the shade because of the bleaching, but he did eat one piece of mysis about an hour ago. Took him awhile but he took it. Ill just keep my fingers crossed. Trying to leave him alone and hope for the best.
occ_motorcycles
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Good luck.
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ReefPops
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Feeling good for the first time in the last few days. Scoly devoured a nice chunk of food and the colors are looking better. Also, when it ate I saw signs of feeder tentacles, which is definitely something it hasn't done in awhile. Overall it's probably got awhile to go, but improvement is enough for me for now.
occ_motorcycles
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That's good. You should load up a photo sometime soon
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ReefPops
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Ask and you shall receive. It's not fully puffy, but that's because the lights had turned off and I quickly turned them back on. You can see the recession I was talking about a few days ago, but the more puff it is, the less you see. Overall, I'm not all that concerned about that because I would think it's expected after all it's been through. Other than that, keep in mind this is a different tank, different lighting (LED, not T5) and a different angle. So unfortunately it's not the best for comparison, but I think you can see the coloration difference.
Squishie89
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I am glad he seems to be turning a corner. I would hate for him to die after all you did for him.
occ_motorcycles
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He does look good though.
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ReefPops
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Thanks so much and me too. My thought was it can only get better.
Yeah. It is a little hard to tell after moving him and such, but that fact that he's eating is really making me think positively. Still slow, but I'll take it.
Thank you!
