Why has my scoly shrunk?

PegasisR · Apr 19, 2019

Why is my scoly doing this? I fed it on Wednesday and hes sitting at around 40-45 par as its acclimating to higher light brightness! He was open earlier but have since receded. He also did a gasp like thing before lights out

Dave Garrett · Apr 20, 2019

Maybe put it on your sand bed or the bottom of the tank so there is no chance of it getting bumped or bruised by rocks and or flow....

Hemmdog · Apr 20, 2019

What did you feed it?

vetteguy53081 · Apr 20, 2019

They will shrink at both feeding and at lights out. Keep an eye on him as the day goes along. Although they do well on the sand bottom, I am leery of sand getting into it. They als like moderate light and moderate water flow

PegasisR · Apr 21, 2019

Dave Garrett said:
Maybe put it on your sand bed or the bottom of the tank so there is no chance of it getting bumped or bruised by rocks and or flow....

I shall do that hes just perched not to high off the sand on a rock

Hemmdog said:
What did you feed it?

Didnt feed him anything

since lights were on

vetteguy53081 said:
They will shrink at both feeding and at lights out. Keep an eye on him as the day goes along. Although they do well on the sand bottom, I am leery of sand getting into it. They als like moderate light and moderate water flow

He plumps up at lights on but if irritated by something, he does one gasp and shrinks and so on if irritated here's how he looks at lights off and hes been feed tiny amounts of reef roid and frenzy two times this week

vetteguy53081 · Apr 21, 2019

PegasisR said:
I shall do that hes just perched not to high off the sand on a rock

Didnt feed him anything since lights were on

He plumps up at lights on but if irritated by something, he does one gasp and shrinks and so on if irritated here's how he looks at lights off and hes been feed tiny amounts of reef roid and frenzy two times this week

When open, looks normal. Find out what is irritating him and either remove or protect scoly with a top of a 2 litre bottle where you can feed through opening yet allow light and flow to the scoly until the annoyer leaves it alone

PegasisR · Apr 21, 2019

vetteguy53081 said:
When open, looks normal. Find out what is irritating him and either remove or protect scoly with a top of a 2 litre bottle where you can feed through opening yet allow light and flow to the scoly until the annoyer leaves it alone

I dont have any inverts in the tank that could irritate it at night and no fish steal from him either

here's a photo of him in the day right now

mtfish · Apr 21, 2019

LPS corals do all kinds of weird stuff. Like a teenage kid looking for pimples in the mirror, they can change their shape drastically. As long as it is not receding or loosing tissue and plumps up each day I would just keep an eye on it. These types of corals usually want a good meaty meal. I would feed mysis or something of the like.

PegasisR · Apr 21, 2019

mtfish said:
LPS corals do all kinds of weird stuff. Like a teenage kid looking for pimples in the mirror, they can change their shape drastically. As long as it is not receding or loosing tissue and plumps up each day I would just keep an eye on it. These types of corals usually want a good meaty meal. I would feed mysis or something of the like.

Oh alright! And okay will do

I feed tiny morsels of lrs frenzy once a week and it responds nicely