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Retracted Coral

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casey & will

My frogspawn has been like this for several months over the months it’s shrunk it was busy when i got it and everything was fine my tests are fine everything is good but it’s gotten smaller and stayed shut for a while now. It’s stopped shrinking but im not sure what to do to fix this. It fully retracts on a night and sometimes in the day nothing is irritating it. It’s been like this since before i moved it into a new tank iv had it for 5 months

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Thanks to Senna's corals, I added 6 new pieces since yesterday:

[ ] 2 Duncan heads (there are already 2 extra heads growing, but they're still small and don't have any color yet)

[ ] 3 Torch heads

[ ] Pocillopora

[ ] Porites

[ ] Turbinaria

[ ] devils hand leather

I only have one question: how long can it take for my finger leather coral to stand upright again and fully open? When I received it yesterday, it was standing upright, but now it has gone limp and fallen over. (You can see it on the last picture)

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ID please. I am new to marine aquariums hobby. I got this piece, of what I thought was a coral, free with my last order. Now it has those polyps popping out. On the 1st photo you can see the purple top of what I through was free coral and they are growing from the bottom, they all retracted when I handled the piece (photo 2). Is this aiptasia?

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Mark2jz
Anthony hernandez

Either i have bad luck with hammer coral or something is wrong with my tank cause I cant keep them from staying closed up. This is my first hammer that has died and the one that is on the rock seems to loose heads. Also would there be a reason for my star polyp to not open?

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Just got the first coral for my tank it’s a hammer coral (it just got in the tank about 2 hours ago so it’s still pretty retracted)

Is this too much flow for it?

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Can’t seem to figure out why my anemone isn’t opening up more as well as why my hammer on the right has some heads pissed off too. Any ideas.

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