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The coral is showing improvement. I've been putting hermits in this coral by hand, placing them where I need them once a week for the past three weeks. Here's a picture from today.



The entire reef looks better. And something interesting has happened to my LPS. Over the past 6 months or so, I've seen the random polyp (or head) close down for a few days and die. I couldn't find the cause and felt it must be a fish because it was randomly happening in my system. However, since some would die in the angled tank also, there was no fish moving back and forth and I think I would have seen a worm doing the damage if that was the culprit.

Since treating the tank with Chemi-Clean to nuke the cyano bacteria, all the LPS look fluffier and overall more healthy. This leads me to the theory that some cyano was present in the individual heads, irritating them to the point of them dying. There is no trace of visible cyano in the tank now, and the pink hammer looks like it is filling in again - when actually the re-opended heads are hiding some of the nearby ones that had died. It looks better, and that makes me happy.