Euphyllia looking deflated

[xilez]

Curious If anyone has some suggestions in dealing with deflated euphyllia. Parameters all seem ok.

When I first put them in my tank they were nice and puffy.. Over the course of a week/week and a half they are all looking deflated... No matter the time of day. When I first put a plate coral in Monday, it had nice long tentacles but also seems shriveled. Same with the Duncan's

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Anyone have a suggestion I should try?

Thanks

 

[grouper therapy]

Do you have strong flow in the tank ?

 

[xilez]

I would say its fairly strong.. I have a voltage adapter arriving today that can hopefully help weaken it.

What I don't get is how they appear happy and inflated for 2-3 days, but now are slowly deflating 1 by 1.

 

[danh]

Are they new? Mine sometimes have bad days but my first two torches did great for about two weeks then died. If you have too much flow they can cut themselves and then they are susceptible to infection I think. If they look damaged from too much flow then you might want to dip them. I didn't do that with mine and lost them. I've had two others now for 4 or 5 months and every once in a while they are a little limp.

 

[xilez]

Ok. My voltage adapter for the Jebao pump comes in today... I'll try dipping them in some Seachem Reef Dip, coupled with lower flow, and see how they do.

All corals look greats..zoas opens and swaying, SPS showing PE...which leads me to believe its not an issue in the water.

 

[jennm]

Too much direct flow would be my first guess.

I'd be careful putting the Euphyllia too close to those SPS frags. Euphyllia will sting the devil out of them.

Jenn

 

[mkowalchuk]

Both your ca & kh are too low, what's your sg?

 

[zachxlutz]

mkowalchuk;1099923 wrote: Both your ca & kh are too low, what's your sg?

Agreed - I shoot for the calcium of the tank around 420 ppm, alkalinity between 9-10 dKH. What salt mix are you using?

 

[xilez]

Got a voltage adapter to lower the flow of my Jebao, and that seemed to do the trick. The red sea kits are painstakingly annoying to read so thats why my number seem low. I might do a water change tonight, if so, ill test numbers again.

 

[xilez]

Didn't test or do water change yet, but here you can see how the lower voltage really helped