Capnella bent over

Hi All,

I bought a Capnella yesterday for my Nano reef tank. I initially placed
it half way up the rock work but it fell off so I then put it in the
substrate. As the day progressed it started to bend in the middle.

Yesterday evening I fed the corals with some phytoplankton including
this one.

All of today the Capnella has been bent almost in half and has been
clamped up. I've moved it up the tank again in case it relates to the
amount of light. The tank is a 15 gall with 3 15W flourescents.

Do you think I'm on the right track or should it be less light rather
than more? Or is it a problem with the coral itself (possibly got
damaged in the fall)? Or is it an acclimitization issue and I need to be
patient?

Tank parameters a-

Temp 26.6C
Sg 1.026
pH 8.4
Alk - higher end of normal (Red Sea kit so doesn't give specifics)
NO2 0
Ca 550 ppm (which seems a bit high to me)
NO3 High Range 25 Low Range 5
PO4 0.1

All other corals, including some others added yesterday, are doing fine.

TIA
Gill

Just regular florescent lights ???
Power compact, vho, t5 ???
You're a bit low on watts per gallon...somebody correct me
if I'm wrong but you should at least be around 5 watts per gallon ?

What are your water parameters...primarily Alk and PH ?
If I had to guess, your Alk may be low.

The thing sounds stressed, don't move it so much.

Chris



"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I bought a Capnella yesterday for my Nano reef tank. I initially placed it
half way up the rock work but it fell off so I then put it in the
substrate. As the day progressed it started to bend in the middle.

Yesterday evening I fed the corals with some phytoplankton including this
one.

All of today the Capnella has been bent almost in half and has been
clamped up. I've moved it up the tank again in case it relates to the
amount of light. The tank is a 15 gall with 3 15W flourescents.

Do you think I'm on the right track or should it be less light rather than
more? Or is it a problem with the coral itself (possibly got damaged in
the fall)? Or is it an acclimitization issue and I need to be patient?

Tank parameters a-

Temp 26.6C Sg 1.026
pH 8.4
Alk - higher end of normal (Red Sea kit so doesn't give specifics)
NO2 0
Ca 550 ppm (which seems a bit high to me)
NO3 High Range 25 Low Range 5
PO4 0.1

All other corals, including some others added yesterday, are doing fine.

TIA
Gill

3 T8s....one Power-Glo and two Marine-Glo....one Marine-Glo could easily
be swapped for another Power-Glo if it would help - no room in the hood
to add any more or I would have gone for four tubes.

Parameters are in my original post

Gill

It's probably damaged from the fall. When a coral gets
punctured, it can't build up as much pressure when
inflating, and so will not fully inflate until it finishes
healing.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



Gill Passman wrote on 10/21/2006 1:13 PM:
Hi All,

I bought a Capnella yesterday for my Nano reef tank. I initially placed
it half way up the rock work but it fell off so I then put it in the
substrate. As the day progressed it started to bend in the middle.

Yesterday evening I fed the corals with some phytoplankton including
this one.

All of today the Capnella has been bent almost in half and has been
clamped up. I've moved it up the tank again in case it relates to the
amount of light. The tank is a 15 gall with 3 15W flourescents.

Do you think I'm on the right track or should it be less light rather
than more? Or is it a problem with the coral itself (possibly got
damaged in the fall)? Or is it an acclimitization issue and I need to be
patient?

Tank parameters a-

Temp 26.6C
Sg 1.026
pH 8.4
Alk - higher end of normal (Red Sea kit so doesn't give specifics)
NO2 0
Ca 550 ppm (which seems a bit high to me)
NO3 High Range 25 Low Range 5
PO4 0.1

All other corals, including some others added yesterday, are doing fine.

TIA
Gill

Wayne Sallee wrote:
It's probably damaged from the fall. When a coral gets punctured, it
can't build up as much pressure when inflating, and so will not fully
inflate until it finishes healing.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets




Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it....It's back in the substrate as the shrimps
were pushing it around a bit last night and it was wobbling. As I didn't
want it to fall again I took the risk of moving it....the shrimps then
bashed my Xenia off of their rock....I think I might need to invest in
some superglue....

Gill