Colt Coral - Sick? Looking a bit limp and unhealthy

[andsoitgoes]

Hi all,

Just picked up a 44g reef tank from the boards a week ago and it's been set up, doing well with some added live rock (at least at 50 lbs in total right now) but I've noticed a small problem with my colt coral - it's massive, and for the first few days took a bit to zing back up to snuff, but just the other day it was doing much better, was out and standing better, not perfect - but today it's been limp and it's lost the brownish coloration it had, and is more of a purpleish/green tint.

I know as far as corals go, these are about as hardy as they get - and everything else in the tank, the mushrooms, zoos, etc, are doing fine. Params are as follows:

SG - 3
Salinity - 1.023
Temp - 79 to 80
Phosphates - 0
Nitrates - < 5



Here's a shot of the colt as of Christmas Eve - now it's wilted and hanging down - now, I *HAVE* done some reorganization of the tank and it's been moved around more than I wanted to have to - and it's also been torn from the original piece of rock during the move, so I know there are a few sore spots on it which might be contributing to the problem.

I'm just trying to figure out if the best solution might be to put it direct in the middle of the tank so it can heal on the rock - it doesn't have a great deal of flow hitting it right now, I've kept that away a bit.

Again - any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick