Corals look terrible.

This past Saturday I upgraded from my 40b to a 90g reef ready. Everything went smooth as far as fish go. All fish accounted for. Problem is my some of my corals look real bad. My candy canes aren't as fluffy as they were. My hammer is a lot smaller. One hammer or frogspawn looks like death. One of my gsp rocks haven't opened in a couple days. Most zoas are fine and my clam is on the sand bed looking good. I used old rinsed sand and about 50lbs of live rock and about 50lbs of dry rock. All water from my 40 and new mixed water. I figured to get a small cycle and I'm getting diatoms so guess that's happening. My parameters are ok. 0 on am, nitrite and nitrate. Alk is 11.7 and calcium is about 500. Always runs high with the worthless Red Sea test kits. Any ideas why some of my corals are bad ?

 

Just stressed from the transfer. Only father time can do anything, ime.

 

I'm hoping that's all it is. My wife keeps saying relax they are all freaked out. Lol

 

Double check your specific gravity value.

 

I did. It's 1.025

 

I guess acclimation then. Seems like you should see little stress because of the way you set up the tank.

 

Just curious, what're your phosphate levels?

 

Also at zero. I'm hoping its a combination of the move to another tank , a small cycle happening and new lights.

 

What kind of new lights? You might need to acclimate the corals to the light. That plus other numerous changes will tend to stress the corals.

 

Had AI Vegas and switched to ocean revive t247s.