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05-12-2008, 12:26 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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 |  galaxia
My galaxia corals isnt extending its polyps as it did before. Just fed it over the weekend, small piece of shrimp. Any ideas? | 
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05-12-2008, 12:33 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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my lighting and water are all fine BTW | |
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05-12-2008, 03:51 PM
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| | Pajama Cardinal
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Not quite sure what you mean when you say you fed it piece of shrimp. Maybe this will help you a little bit. COTM-April '08 Galaxea | |
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05-15-2008, 05:58 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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The small piece of shrimp wasnt intended for the coral but kind of landed next to it.....looked like it was feeding on it a bit. I usually feed it Phyto-Food as well all my other corals. Anyway it looks terrible, i moved it to a bit more current but it was getting plenty before. I dont think its gonna make it, I have had it for about 3 months, was small maybe the size of a golfball. I dont think the piece of shrimp would cause it harm nor are there any other things that could have bothered it. Although, now that i think about it there were some amiphipods feeding around its polyps....im baffled, im sure they wouldnt have harmed it either. There are maybe 2-3 polyps left on the skeleton that may have a chance. | |
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05-16-2008, 12:15 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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well i think its on its way out......bummer. After the lights went out I went to looking at it, there were probably 20-25 amphipods all over it, feeding frenzy! | |
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05-16-2008, 01:26 PM
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| | Giant Squid
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Originally Posted by paulg  my lighting and water are all fine BTW | When you say your water parameters are fine, what parameters did you check?
Did you perform a water change recently?
May have had a spike or lull causing your Galaxea coral to stress out!
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05-16-2008, 10:03 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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I just checked the basics as I have run out of the rest of my tests. Ammonia/PH/Nitrates and Nitrites are all fine as well as SG. I just did a 20 gallon water change last week, my tank is a 90 gallon, running for many years. It was first placed in the middle of the tank with decent flow.
This is another coral I recieved from someone tearing their tank down and the other two didnt make it as well. All my other corals and fish are fine....just dont make sense to me.
I placed it on the bottom of the tank thinking it was possibly my lights as the person I got it from just had poor lighting. I`m still target feeding at night, crossing my fingers it may recover but sure dont look good,I`ll post some pics tomorrow.
Thanks again.......im clueless to what happened. | |
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05-17-2008, 06:04 AM
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| | Flying Squid
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My galaxia started doing much better when I got it in a high flow area. If it is able to accumulate stuff in the coral then it will slowly die. If you don't have it in a high flow area then you need to take a turkey baster and blow it out every few days. It needs to be kept clean in order to be happy. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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05-17-2008, 10:49 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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well its looking a bit better....i have very high flow at the bottom in one area and thats where its at. There are only maybe 5 polyps some what alive but its still hanging in there.
Think I should spot feed every night or every other?
My calcium was a bit low, like 380, i dosed it tonight, have to get my booty to the fish store for my other kits!....all else is good though.
Oh ya, have a new fish as of yesterday, beauty of a foxface!.......sweet fish! | |
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05-17-2008, 10:49 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
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pics comeing tomorrow | |
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