bubble coral

[cag]

My bubble corral has been deflating for about 2 weeks. It's been in the reef tank for 9 months and always been fine. The zoos look a bit off too. All the other coral, (Torch leather, mushrooms, whip. bush,frogspawn, etc) looks fine. Do they go through some kind of cycle? I am usto it deflating and changing at night, but this is much more significant, and sometimes all day. The zoos seem to be shrinking too. I check the water regularly. PH 8.1-8.3, KH up a bit, between 200 and 250. Calcuim fine, temp fine, salinity fine, phosphates none, nitrate unreadable. Feeding liquid food, frozen food, and cyclopese, and have good light. Any ideas out there. :question:

[EmilyB]

No advice actually, as I have never had any luck with them at all. :confused:

[danny zubot]

I've had torch and hammer corals which are similar to bubble corals and mine did the same thing until they were dead. I can't help you but richtg has kept his torch alive for a long time now, PM him and find out his theory.

[Delphinus]

Do you feed your bubble coral?

When I had mine, I found I did need to feed it. It's odd some LPS are easy to feed, like bubble corals and plates, others I've never been able to find a suitable food for (torch and other euphyllia's).

They are definitely sensitive creatures. I ended up losing my bubble coral when I took a large quantity of live rock out. I guess it just couldn't survive the re-cycle of the tank. Everything else in the tank did fine after the rock removal.

What kind of lighting does it have? I find that LPS tend to prefer more subdued lighting and more subdued currents unlike their SPS cousins.

I'm sorry I don't have anything better to offer.

[Delphinus]

PS. I'll move this to the main reefing forum, you might get more hits on it.

[danny zubot]

That makes sense because Richtg always feeds his torch freeze dried phytoplankton. I never did and that could be why it died.

[muck]

I feed my torch mysis once in awhile and its doing great (so far)
but I have only had it for about a month.

Danny, how long did you have your torch before it died?