Umbrella’ing zoas or drooping

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Hey all recently got some nirvana zoas along with a couple other zoas all of them are doing absolutely great lots of new growth already but this one frag (the nirvanas) they’ve been droopy for some days now but oddly enough I see new polyps starting on them? Color is great just doesn’t look great lol. I’ve attached some pics of anyone can help. I wanna say they started to umbrella after I started reef roids though I’m not 100% sure.

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Hey all recently got some nirvana zoas along with a couple other zoas all of them are doing absolutely great lots of new growth already but this one frag (the nirvanas) they’ve been droopy for some days now but oddly enough I see new polyps starting on them? Color is great just doesn’t look great lol. I’ve attached some pics of anyone can help. I wanna say they started to umbrella after I started reef roids though I’m not 100% sure.

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Did you make any changes to your tank besides the reef roids?
 
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Hey all recently got some nirvana zoas along with a couple other zoas all of them are doing absolutely great lots of new growth already but this one frag (the nirvanas) they’ve been droopy for some days now but oddly enough I see new polyps starting on them? Color is great just doesn’t look great lol. I’ve attached some pics of anyone can help. I wanna say they started to umbrella after I started reef roids though I’m not 100% sure.

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It's the vermetid snails at the base irritating it. I had one droopy like that and there was a small aiptasia. I think it's stalk was irritated and it was trying to cover the stock instead of fold in.
 
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It's the vermetid snails at the base irritating it. I had one droopy like that and there was a small aiptasia. I think it's stalk was irritated and it was trying to cover the stock instead of fold in.
Oddly enough I believe what you see are feather dusters. I can see them when they are extended.
 
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It's the vermetid snails at the base irritating it. I had one droopy like that and there was a small aiptasia. I think it's stalk was irritated and it was trying to cover the stock instead of fold in.
The bubble algae you see I just took off in a separate container when I moved the frag. (I moved the frag a day after posting this)
 
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The droopy umbrella thing is a weird one, IDK if anyone knows why it happens. It could be anything really.

I've had some bounce back after moving into more or less light, and others have bounced back when I do nothing at all.
 
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I see some that look like feather dusters, but one "coiled" tube on the left I think is a vermetide
I think your talking about the bottom left correct? I can see that looking that way on the photo but I think its camera quality from my phone lol I apologize for that in advance. That appears to be a new polyp that has form when I look at it.
 
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