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Looking for advice. The orange stopped opening fully, I thought maybe too much light. I moved back under a shelf and it looked worse. Then I moved forward more but still not opening. Should I stop touching it and give more time ?

Originally had it tucked back
It didn’t look happy
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Moved it forward a few inches to get out from shelf shadow
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Right next to the green one that’s happy and open but orange still not opening. Does this take a few days?
 

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Also what is normal behavior for acantho? Do they recede and close up at night? Or do they stay out and extend feeders at night like Cynarina ?
 

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Looking for advice. The orange stopped opening fully, I thought maybe too much light. I moved back under a shelf and it looked worse. Then I moved forward more but still not opening. Should I stop touching it and give more time ?

Originally had it tucked back
It didn’t look happy
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Moved it forward a few inches to get out from shelf shadow
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Right next to the green one that’s happy and open but orange still not opening. Does this take a few days?
Leave it alone for a week
 
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Definitely let it settle for a week or so before doing anything to it or feeding them. If it stays unhappy, dropping water temp & getting it off the sand may help it.
 

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Whoops. I just killed follow and target fed my tanks corals about 30 min ago. It’s Mouth was open so I gave it some food

Here is pic I just took. Does it look ok? It’s flesh is covering more skeleton than it was prior. That seems like a good thing.

I don’t know what’s on its mouth. That wasn’t there 10-15 min ago

I won’t touch it or feed it for a week. I promise :)
 

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Leave it alone for a week
Not making any promises. But. I maaaaay have moved it again this morning trying to figure out where it likes best. Pics in my last post are current.

Hand off. A week. Got it. Unless you advice otherwise.

Have flow reduced also since yesterday on my tanks MP10/40 combo both reduced to the second led on power gauge. Normally on 4 or 5th led
 
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Whoops. I just killed follow and target fed my tanks corals about 30 min ago. It’s Mouth was open so I gave it some food

Here is pic I just took. Does it look ok? It’s flesh is covering more skeleton than it was prior. That seems like a good thing.

I don’t know what’s on its mouth. That wasn’t there 10-15 min ago

I won’t touch it or feed it for a week. I promise :)
looks like poop, suck it off before it gets irritated.
 

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looks like poop, suck it off before it gets irritated.

Removed. I thought the same thing when removing. A lot of my other corals look irritated then poop. Maybe that’s what’s going on

Ok hand off. No touchies. Promise
 

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Also what is normal behavior for acantho? Do they recede and close up at night? Or do they stay out and extend feeders at night like Cynarina ?
Mine are normally less inflated at night but they also kind of seem to run on their own schedule. Sometimes they shrink up real small at night, other times they will only be marginally less inflated.
 

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I keep scolymia, Cynarina, trachy, wellso, and all these guys open / extend at night for feeding. Pretty much every night (but I don’t feed every night)

When do acantho seem to prefer to feed? Day or night? Or is it random?
 

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Mine tend to shrink an hour after lights out.
Then get puffy again before lights coming on

I honestly would bet it’s just acclimating to your system and just leave it alone to adjust. But i would still feed it a few LPS/Anemone pellets once or twice a week. Wont hurt it.
These are pretty tough corals. They usually are a “Do or Die” type of coral.
 

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On another note. Would everyone share what their usual parameters are in their acantho/cynarina/trachy systems are?

Mine is:

Phosphate : .25ppm!!
Nitrate : 25ppm!!
dKH 10
Calcium : 440ppm
Magnesium : 1350 ppm
SG 1.0265 (Tropic Marin hydrometer—amazing product)
Temp : 76 degrees
PH average 8

Corals (majority LPS love it as do the few SPS I have which are coloured nicely)

Just curious about my my parameters in relation to other Donut coral keepers to compare.
 
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On another note. Would everyone share what their usual parameters are in their acantho/cynarina/trachy systems are?

Mine is:

Phosphate : .25ppm!!
Nitrate : 25ppm!!
dKH 10
Calcium : 440ppm
Magnesium : 1350 ppm
SG 1.0265 (Tropic Marin hydrometer—amazing product)
Temp : 76 degrees
PH average 8

Corals (majority LPS love it as do the few SPS I have which are coloured nicely)

Just curious about my my parameters in relation to other Donut coral keepers to compare.
Your nutrients are in the perfect 100 to 1 ratio! That's really cool to see. It's been found that in some aquaria like Sanjay's tank and Marc Levenson's tank that everything is happy as long as NO3 is 100x higher than PO4. It's been tested in a few aquaculture systems as well with similar findings.

Next time I test I will provide results, but I have not tested in a long time . I'm mostly a by eye kind of guy, if something is unhappy I either dose or do a water change... Hasn't failed me yet haha.
 

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