Plate coral!

I don't know if I should panic yet....I picked up a plate coral about 3 weeks or a month ago. I loved his green color... his tentacles were out every day like clock work...ate well. He actually ate like every other day because I feed the sun Polyp every other day. His color is green and slight brown on the edges. I thought he was sick cause you could see his skeleton a bit but when i turn the moon lights on he glows a gorgeous neon green. Anyway for the past day and a half he's compeletely closed up... his mouth is shut his tentacles are in and he just seems un responsive. A dip in revive help? is this normal should i give him another day or two? Params are normal. I did increase the salinity in the past week and a half it dropped to 1022 after a water change now back up to 1025. I also moved him so the flow was more moderate then high. Advice please!!!!!!!

 

Last night I had a thread EXACTLY like yours. Bought it a few weeks ago, and I now see his skeleton a little, and it has a few brown spots on the small part of skeloten. IMHO I think mine is done. I have not seen any recovery. Fed it once a week, and my water quality is near perfection. Take a look at my thread. Maybe that could help. Good luck
JJL

 

will do thanks....sucks he was one of my favs....its almost as if the day i moved him he was never happy again lol .. I wish they could talk!

 

Did you move the plate before or after it closed up?

No do not dip it.

I imaging the low SG did stress it.

Image please.

 

With a salt drop that much, he is probably just stressed a bit..But as long as the salinity is around 1.020-1.026 he should be fine..things will do better at 1.023-5 but 22 is not awfull..I would give him time to adjust, if he does not seem to be coming around in a couple days then test water and see if something is bothering him.

 

a week after i moved it he closed up. I hope he's just stressed out he does not look any different from the day i bought him just deflated and it looked like something sifted through teh gravel and it was sitting on him this morning thats when i moved him close to where I had him before and the powerhead has removed all the white dusting that was on him. Let me take a pic give me like 5 min

 

They do not like to have any sand on the top, if it did it may have caused stress. Is that you in the avatar?

 

yeah sadly on bottom lol....first jump requires another "dude" on to strap on with you.... insane experience!!!

 

It looks fine to me..Just give a bit to adjust.