Anchor coral shrivelled up, about to leave on vacation...

[ericbosco]

Just got back from a 4 day business trip and noticed my anchor coral is not opening up at much at all. I quickly checked water parameters and they are fine (amonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 2.5, Ph 8.2, temp 76, salinit 1.027, phosphate 0). All fish look good, my blue mushrooms are open and my trumpet coral looks OK (but not great).

Last 15% water change was 1 week ago.

Any ideas?

-Eric

 

[ericbosco]

ack.. forgot to mention I need to leave tomorrow for a week. I have someone I trust feeding the tank and have auto-topoff.

 

[Carpentersreef]

Your salinity's a bit high, should be 1.026 or a bit lower, and your temp's a bit low, should be closer to 80, IMO. I wouldn't worry about it. Those corals do that from time to time. Maybe have the person looking after things to feed on the lighter side, just to be safe.

Mitch