Akida17th
Well-Known Member
Hi reefers,
I recently purchased a SWEET acanthophyllia at a great price. It was housed under LED's Kessils 360 at the LFS. I recently changed my lighting prior to buying the acan to T5's (ATI 24" 8 bulb). I have had a few corals die throughout the process (was running Radion pro g3 at 40% peak). Everything else is doing great including a nice gigantea anemone but this Acanthophyllia isn't doing good at all. It's starting to show it's skeleton kind of very sharp edges which is a sign it's not happy. IT hasn't started to recede but it's getting there. I was running Seachem Phosguard which I turned off and it looks like my phosphates are 0 (trying to raise them) even though I do have some algae growing on the glass. My parameters are fine no3 3ppm po4 0ppm ammonia oppm nitrite 0ppm alk 8dkh calcium 420ppm temp is 77. The fixture is raised 12" off the water surface and has been running now for about 3 weeks. I'm running 5 ati blue + 2 ati coral + and 1 ati purple +. I have acanhowensis in there doing GREAT. Any help would be appreciated. The acantho is in the middle of my tank on sandbed. I did move him slightly but it didn't change anything. I may have to bring this guy back to lfs to save him. I also did a 15 gallon water change that didn't seem to help either. I'll try to post pictures when I get home. Any help would be appreciated because I'm clueless the only thing I can think of is maybe the T5's? The pics below was at the lfs happy under leds. He looked ok in my tank the first couple days but now he is just retracted to the point where you can see the flesh over his skeleton if you know what I mean.
I recently purchased a SWEET acanthophyllia at a great price. It was housed under LED's Kessils 360 at the LFS. I recently changed my lighting prior to buying the acan to T5's (ATI 24" 8 bulb). I have had a few corals die throughout the process (was running Radion pro g3 at 40% peak). Everything else is doing great including a nice gigantea anemone but this Acanthophyllia isn't doing good at all. It's starting to show it's skeleton kind of very sharp edges which is a sign it's not happy. IT hasn't started to recede but it's getting there. I was running Seachem Phosguard which I turned off and it looks like my phosphates are 0 (trying to raise them) even though I do have some algae growing on the glass. My parameters are fine no3 3ppm po4 0ppm ammonia oppm nitrite 0ppm alk 8dkh calcium 420ppm temp is 77. The fixture is raised 12" off the water surface and has been running now for about 3 weeks. I'm running 5 ati blue + 2 ati coral + and 1 ati purple +. I have acanhowensis in there doing GREAT. Any help would be appreciated. The acantho is in the middle of my tank on sandbed. I did move him slightly but it didn't change anything. I may have to bring this guy back to lfs to save him. I also did a 15 gallon water change that didn't seem to help either. I'll try to post pictures when I get home. Any help would be appreciated because I'm clueless the only thing I can think of is maybe the T5's? The pics below was at the lfs happy under leds. He looked ok in my tank the first couple days but now he is just retracted to the point where you can see the flesh over his skeleton if you know what I mean.
