frogspawn coral pulling skin away from buds

[nanonøkk]

ok so when i added my frogspawn to my tank i accidentally left it in high flow for the first night and now it’s pulling the tissue away from the buds are they gonna survive or should i just let them be for now

and it’s not opening up as often and as happy as it used to is it just getting used to the tank or was it just damaged by the flow

perameters are
salinity-1.025
kh-9
ph-8
nitrate-5
nitrite-0
calcium-440

 

[vetteguy53081]

These do best in Moderate light and water flow placed at lower third of tank. Placing them directly on bottom subjects them to getting sand on them which stresses them out.
Polyp bailout where the polyps leave the skeleton is stressed related. What stress you ask ? Stress response due to unfavorable tank conditions that certain stony coral can activate as a last ditch effort to save themselves. During polyp bailout, polyps are killing off their own connective tissue through apoptosis. Some causes are:

- Too much light
- Too much water flow
- High nitrates or No nitrates
- Bacterial infection leading to Brown jelly disease
- Reproduction
- Water temp too warm
- Salinity too high
- Alkalinity being too high or too low (ideally 8 – 11 dKH)
- pH being too high or too low (ideally 7.6 – 8.4)

Some things here for you too check.

Hopefully you are not relying on API Test kits ?

 

[nanonøkk]

These do best in Moderate light and water flow placed at lower third of tank. Placing them directly on bottom subjects them to getting sand on them which stresses them out.
Polyp bailout where the polyps leave the skeleton is stressed related. What stress you ask ? Stress response due to unfavorable tank conditions that certain stony coral can activate as a last ditch effort to save themselves. During polyp bailout, polyps are killing off their own connective tissue through apoptosis. Some causes are:

- Too much light
- Too much water flow
- High nitrates or No nitrates
- Bacterial infection leading to Brown jelly disease
- Reproduction
- Water temp too warm
- Salinity too high
- Alkalinity being too high or too low (ideally 8 – 11 dKH)
- pH being too high or too low (ideally 7.6 – 8.4)

Some things here for you too check.

Hopefully you are not relying on API Test kits ?

no i’m not relying on api test kits

and it’s been in the tank for 5 days and it was in high flow for a day

and the only other thing i can think of is that when i moved it over one of the heads was splitting

right now it’s in moderate flow and moderate light

 

[nanonøkk]

update on this i found an astrea star on the corals base and it blended in perfectly with the coral so could that be it

 

[tnewell]

I saw both the stars in the original pic, I 100% agree with @vetteguy53081, I also understand that euphyllia thrive when undisturbed. Maybe find a spot for it and leave it be for a week or two, keep params Perfect and see if that works!

 

[nanonøkk]

I saw both the stars in the original pic, I 100% agree with @vetteguy53081, I also understand that euphyllia thrive when undisturbed. Maybe find a spot for it and leave it be for a week or two, keep params Perfect and see if that works!

yea that’s what i’m gonna try and do