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| I have a 29g reef and my pearl bubble is wasting away for the past few weeks. I have had him for about 8 months and until a couple weeks ago he was looking incredible healthy. I have been feeding him silversides but now he doesnt seem to want to take anything in. My water parameters are as follows Salinity 1.025 PH 8.1 Phos 0 amm 0 nitrite 0 nitrate less than 10 calcium 480 DKH 8 Any help in this matter would be great. Thanks alot! Ryan
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I would try smaller foods like Pacifica plankton and mysid shrimp.
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| In addition to what Steven mentioned (smaller foods), how is the flow around the coral? They generally don't like to much of a flow, just a gentle flow. I have had similar experiences with bubble corals (2 in the past), they do great for around 6 months and then all of a sudden stop opening (inflating) as much and then they go down hill. I just figured I was not giving it the appropriate food, supplement, light, etc... (i.e. something was missing from the tank for their long term health). I wonder what others long term success has been with bubble type corals?
________________________________________________ Keith“I'm hitting the woods just great,
but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them.” - Harry Tofcano
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It is in the lowest water flow I have in my tank(Which is next to nothing). It also eats mysis shrimp everyday because that is what I feed my fish. So really I have no idea whats going on.
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| I've had a green bubble coral for nearly a year and it definitely doesn't dig a lot of flow; as for diet, we change things up pretty frequently but generally we mix a concoction that feeds all of our fish, corals and inverts. There have been a few instances when it didn't look too well but mostly it's been stable as long as we didn't hit it with much direct flow.
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