bubble not lookingto good

[Freckles]

My bubble hasnot been fully inflated for the last few weeks now and I dont know what is causing it. All my tests are all reading good. Do I need to move it?

[UnseenTric]

Freckles-
I have a green bubble...The coral is easily the most tempormental coral I have. Every coral in my tank looks great, and then there's the bubble.
I have metal halide lighting (which he didn't like) and when I put him in almost total shade he started to look a lot better. He's been in my tank now 7 weeks, and only in the last two has he started looking aright... At least 2x a week he looks absolutely horrible.
My seems to fair better in low-flow areas.... FWIW.
Good luck.

[R1Bill]

Freckles,

I have a 6" diameter bubble that does that once in a while. My bubble is the most sensitive coral I have to water quality. Especially, if my pH or salinity or temperature changes too fast it shrivels up for a day or so. Adding Kalkwasser too fast or water changes make it shrink. Mine is on the edge of 400 W of MH about 10" down. So the light is bright and it likes it. Water flow is mild. I would re-check my water parameters. Are your tests good? Don't know what else.

Good luck!

Bill

[fishinchick]

I have a green bubble and reg. colored bubbe.

My green came to me from under 250 watt MH but adjusted to the PC's really well. However it does appear to prefer to be up high under the most light. The regular bubbles dont seem to be as picky about where they are but I keep them at the same level.

Are you feeding them? I notice mine get irritated if I dont feed them 'on schedule'.

[Freckles]

Ummm........ no, I have not been feeding him lately I think I will throw a piece of krill on top of it. Usually flake food or mysis shrimp floats by it, though. I thought of it today while feeding the sun coral.

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Hey Frecks! I feed my bubble coral after lights out as the bubbles deflate and it is ready to accept food. I feed mine silversides every couple of days or so! Johnny

[Geoff]

I have had the same reg. bubble coral for the past 5-6 years and during that time I have learned, I can not figure out what causes it to wig out. It started out as a double branch and grew like crazy for about 4 years that way. Then one day one of the branches just went south. I have no idea why. The other remained full and kept growing. The one that went south had a 3 inch base. I thought it died completely, but low and behold about a month after apparantly a very small spot lived, now it is only 1/2 in diameter, but showing good inflation.

The moral is, they are just special coral. I could not see any reason why the one half had a hard time. I even rotated the coral 180 to see if that helped, nothing. When the smaller one started growing again was when I rotated it back again, go figure.

I would look at it at night. If it extends tentacles than I would not be to worried about it, but feed it.

FWIW,

G~