octopi not doing well.. any clues?

[desideria]

HI all!!

My husband and I just bought this octopi ( at least that's what we were told it is) from AM about a week or so ago and it looked pretty alright in the shop. WE were told it doesn't like too much current but must sway "Gently". too much no good, too little also no good. So ok we found a spot near our bubble to place it. HOwever after merely a week a part of it has begun to "die off". I somehow hope it will come back but as we have never had this coral before, it looks like the dead part is slowly spreading.. I have no idea what's wrong as the bubble and our anamonea is thriving in the tank.

I just tested the water parameters and Nitrite, Phosphate and Ammonia are all ZERO, nitrate is close to zero, PH is 8.2, temp about 26 to 28 (depending on time of day), calcium is a bit on the high side of 520 but the one that our tank failed in was the GH and KH which is a bit low so now I"m trying to correct that. Could that be the reason why the octopi is slowly dying off from 1 side and spreading to the rest? We have a small 2 feet by 1 feet tank and it has about 5 fishes in it besides 1 shrimp so the bio load isn't exactly that heavy.... I hope!

anyway, I"ve uploaded 2 pics, one is the octopi and the other is the bubble which to me is thriving.. so any clues what could be wrong besides the GH and KH? Any advice of what I can do to recover it? REally grateful for any help whatsoever.

[[V]tEc]

HI all!!

My husband and I just bought this octopi ( at least that's what we were told it is) from AM about a week or so ago and it looked pretty alright in the shop. WE were told it doesn't like too much current but must sway "Gently". too much no good, too little also no good. So ok we found a spot near our bubble to place it. HOwever after merely a week a part of it has begun to "die off". I somehow hope it will come back but as we have never had this coral before, it looks like the dead part is slowly spreading.. I have no idea what's wrong as the bubble and our anamonea is thriving in the tank.

I just tested the water parameters and Nitrite, Phosphate and Ammonia are all ZERO, nitrate is close to zero, PH is 8.2, temp about 26 to 28 (depending on time of day), calcium is a bit on the high side of 520 but the one that our tank failed in was the GH and KH which is a bit low so now I"m trying to correct that. Could that be the reason why the octopi is slowly dying off from 1 side and spreading to the rest? We have a small 2 feet by 1 feet tank and it has about 5 fishes in it besides 1 shrimp so the bio load isn't exactly that heavy.... I hope!

anyway, I"ve uploaded 2 pics, one is the octopi and the other is the bubble which to me is thriving.. so any clues what could be wrong besides the GH and KH? Any advice of what I can do to recover it? REally grateful for any help whatsoever.

this is a true octo coral n how near did u place it with the bubble coral?since u say it was okie at the shop n u said u placed it near to ur bubble, i suspect ur bubble may have sting the true octo n cause the part to die off...did u notice any brown stuff on the true octo? if yes, then it will spread to the whole coral n i dun think u can save it... for now maybe move it further from the bubble n monitor from there

[[V]tEc]

btw this should be under LPS thread.

[peacemaker]

Is this true octo...? Looks like frog spawn to me, but I might be wrong.

Do you have a powerhead providing flow directly to the coral? This may cause it to retract. I've experienced this with hammers.

[desideria]

Hi.. oops sorry for putting this in the wrong thread.. anyway, to answer the previous query, yeah here is some brown thing on it

Guess it ain't gonna last. Sigh, a lesson for me to always remember. i didn't expect the bubble to be so "powerful".

It's not directly being hit by the wave maker, the powerhead is behind some rock which is sheltering the octopi and the wave is hitting against the glass and not directly at the coral. Oh well.... thanks for enlightenment.

Desi

[peacemaker]

Don't give up... try shifting it somewhere else in your tank. It might recover.

[fishtalk1517]

I.M.O, putting the True Octo near to the bubble is a bad idea. Well, might be tat u have not really know their characters as yet. Bubbles and Octo tends to stretch their tentacles and this way, they are bound to cross path. Bubbles to be are more deadly sting than Octo and from the Pics of the receeding Octo, very likely hood tat the octo had been sting by the bubble.

Move ur True Octo to another area whereby mid to low flow and with lights for it. To me, there's still some hope for it thou its been sting. I too got an injured True octo but still opens big. Jus tat the injured part won't be covered by its flesh even when heeled Reef on and dun be dishearten, corals die for many reasons. Their conditions? Our mistakes ? Water conditions ? Etc.....

If u r not sure of the corals name and characters, u can try post the pics and questions here and some helpful reefers here will try to help answer