help with colt coral

[laurahauck]

I recived to 1" colt corals and put them in my tank on a rock... the next day they started leaving sticky stringy stuff all around them. I was informed that this is what they do when stressed... but today I found them as a pile of goo.
Can anyone tell me why they would do that?

My water tests have been perfect since I've put the tank together (4/6/05).

 

[Anonymous]

You tank seems young for corals but Colts are usually pretty hardy.

How is your water flow? What else is in the tank? What lighting do you have?

Can you post your water parameters? Especially your Temperature, Salinity, Calcium and Alkalinity levels.

"Perfect" is subject to debate believe it or not

 

[laurahauck]

You tank seems young for corals but Colts are usually pretty hardy.

How is your water flow? What else is in the tank? What lighting do you have?

Can you post your water parameters? Especially your Temperature, Salinity, Calcium and Alkalinity levels.

"Perfect" is subject to debate believe it or not

Would high temps be a problem... the tank did get to 82F this week... but it normally is at 75F. Where I live when it gets hot out there is now way to cool the place down

Right now I have Two yellow chromis, hermit crabs, snails a bunch of polyps, mushrooms and some toadstool leathers. They were on the rock with mushrooms but not near anything.
I have a 130 watt PC on my 20g L with a remora on it.

I'm going to do a water change today and ill post my test results...

 

[laurahauck]

The only reason I had the corals are because my bf works at a saltwater store and he gets things free from work and customers... so all the polyps, mushrooms and toadstools were free...
He brought them home in a bucket and im not sure how long they were in there, probably 2-3hours... could that have something to do with it?

 

[Anonymous]

I keep my tank at 82F - 83F so I'm positive that Colt can do well at 82F.

I'm not so sure it can do well at 75F though, I've never tried it. It seems a bit too cold to me.

They should do find in a bucket for at least a day or two so I don't think that's it.