Sounds like it may have suffered some damage from being moved around and buried by the shrimp., or it may still be messing with it when your not around. Flow may have also been a factor. Is it starting to "puff" back up and show tentacles (assuming lights are off).
Also, you don't have to feed them everyday.
Yeah, I don't plan on feeding them every day, figured every other day, or every 3 days at least however. Still, it is a smaller Scoly, and I'd like him to get to bigger size, and I do plan on feeding most of my corals.
His tentacles are starting to come out, now, though. And I just did the 'bottle top' trick, and fed him and he responded immediately, so I feel a lot better. New reefer, and a little panic attack. But, I'm attached to every coral I pick out, and want them all to be healthy, and happy.
I'll keep an eye on him tomorrow, and hope that everything is okay. Most of the posts I saw were where the mouth was gaping and wouldn't close for awhile, so I'm hoping that I was able to rectify the problem before it became an issue.
I'll keep an eye on the pistol; but between this and the episode with the plate coral where he tried to drag the mini-plate back into his cave, I may be looking to try to find a way to get him out. I'd hate to do that, because he's really fun to watch ... but, not at the sake of losing all my LPS corals to his engineering skills.
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