What is wrong with this dendro?????

[Raul]

Got this piece yesterday and this morning it looks like this? Whats going on?

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

looks like it dead, what is your
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tell us more about you set up because the zoas look bad in the pic

 

[Raul]

Lights had just come on so the zoas where not happy... All levels were good on monday I can check again tonight but im sure they are fine.. Do you think its just stress from being moved to a new tank? Maybe my leds are too strong for it? My other dendros are good.. Just weird

 

[FlowerhornNYC]

I believed it from stress & give it time to adjust to the new environment. It was open up nicely before I bring it over to your place.

 

[Raul]

Yeah it looked amazing in your tank but over here it doesnt look happy at all... I guess all I can do is wait. I sure hope its not dead...

I believed it from stress & give it time to ait djust to the new environment. It was open up nicely before I bring it over to your place.

 

[reefs247]

nah it's definitely not dead if it was dead it would be brown like that big piece of favia that used to be alive behind it lol. Give it a few days it should be fine. If tentacles come out feed it and it's all good.

 

[guarda]

When my gf brought home her dendro it looked like that for almost a week. As a last ditch effort, I took it out of my tank, put it in a jar and squirted frozen brine, then put it back in my tank. After the 4th try it's tentacles started coming out. Now it's out almost all the time. Some need more time to adjust, that's all.

 

[reefs247]

yea actually even a good idea if it does not open in a few days could be to put some gel food in the mouths kind of like a force feeding tactic. This has also worked for me in the past. Definitely give it a few days though and see what happens.

 

[Raul]

I bought that favia that way lol...I got a bunch of dead corals for cheap when I first set up the tank.

The dendro is starting to look better.. Just looks weird next to my other colony...

nah it's definitely not dead if it was dead it would be brown like that big piece of favia that used to be alive behind it lol. Give it a few days it should be fine. If tentacles come out feed it and it's all good.

 

[LongIslandAndy]

If you can, try and leave it alone, it is already stressed from being moved from one tank to another. If you think it is the LED lights than shade it somehow since it doesn't really need light. I would not try and feed it, you are only going to stress it more. It is an incredibly durable coral give it some time

 

[MIKE NY]

x2..they are very hardy corals...my trigger took a bite out of one of the heads on mine shell and all..thought for sure it was dead, but it's still alive.

 

[Raul]

Looking better today

 

[FlowerhornNYC]

Looking better now. It better that you glue it on a rock away from the sand that would help

 

[Raul]

yep I got a rock ready for it...

Looking better now. It better that you glue it on a rock away from the sand that would help

 

[Raul]

All better

Fed it today and it looks a million times better... Looks real good with my other colony

 

[noobzy]

Very nice. Happy to see that it bounced back!

 

[LongIslandAndy]

Nice!!!

 

[Arati]

glad to see it came around!

also taken out of context this is a great quote "I got a bunch of dead corals for cheap" haha cracked me up..