Are my corals happy?

[rueric]

Hello!

I picked up two corals 4 days ago.. How can I tell if my frog spawn and splatter hammer (can someone confirm if it is?) is happy?

This is a newly cycled tank (used microbacter 7)
Salinity is 1.025
Temp is 79
I'll be checking for my alk/calc/po4 later tonight.

Just not sure if this is expected size as these are still new to the tank.
I have them in the bottom corner of my tank which is still a decent flow.

 

[T-J]

When you say "newly cycled tank" is this the one your "re-started" on May 23rd?

Outside of that, they look fine.....for the moment.

 

[KrisReef]

Lots of lps keepers will tell you that these like “dirty” water, that is water in an established tank that has measurable No3 and P.

They don’t look horrible or in bad shape at the moment the picture was taken.

Do you have any fish, or are you feeding the corals anything? They like drift food that fish make or don’t eat.

 

[rueric]

When you say "newly cycled tank" is this the one your "re-started" on May 23rd?

Outside of that, they look fine.....for the moment.

Yes. This is the one

 

[rueric]

Lots of lps keepers will tell you that these like “dirty” water, that is water in an established tank that has measurable No3 and P.

They don’t look horrible or in bad shape at the moment the picture was taken.

Do you have any fish, or are you feeding the corals anything? They like drift food that fish make or don’t eat.

No fish in the tank at the moment. Since adding corals to the tank four days ago, I’ve since doses it twice with Red Sea AB+

 

[rueric]

I don’t plan to add my fish in here yet as I’m getting ready to treat them for ich for about a month. I plan to bring in my cleaner shrimp, tuxedo urchin, and the snails I managed to salvage from my tank restart.
Do I need to get some other foods like coral frenzy or reef roids while I treat my fish?

 

[Miguel Negron]

I would say yes there adjusting, remember patience is very important in this hobby. Good luck!

 

[T-J]

I don’t plan to add my fish in here yet as I’m getting ready to treat them for ich for about a month. I plan to bring in my cleaner shrimp, tuxedo urchin, and the snails I managed to salvage from my tank restart.
Do I need to get some other foods like coral frenzy or reef roids while I treat my fish?

I assume you’re quarantining anything you’re bringing over? If not, you’ll just transfer the ich into the new tank.

 

[rueric]

I assume you’re quarantining anything you’re bringing over? If not, you’ll just transfer the ich into the new tank.

The idea is that I am intentionally going to bring the ich with all inverts over to the display. Run it fishless for the period while I treat the fish in a separate tank. (80.6 degrees for ~30 days according to humblefish posts ive
This way, I can have copper in my hospital tank while keeping this tank running

I think based on this timing, everything should ideally take a bit over a month to become an ich free house hold

 

[rueric]

Should I move my move these up to the middle for more flow and lighting?

 

[rueric]

Just finished my test kits. All Hannah test kits
alk: 6.485 (116 ppm)
Calc: 462
Phosphate: 0.00
Ph: 8.07

looks like my alk is low.
should I do a water change? (Thinking 50%)
Or do I just dose some soda ash to bring up my alk and ph?

my calc looks a tad bit high but within acceptable margins?

 

[SchrutesReefs]

What were your phosphates? And I would keep them low, like where you have them currently. They don’t usually like to be moved too often. If they are happy it’ll be a day or so for them to plump up. If the flow or lighting is too high they will stay shriveled up.

 

[rueric]

Phosphates were 0.00.

 

[Tcook]

I would be concerned about 30 days doing anything. Wasn't it 45 days at 80+ versus 75 days at lower temp? I haven't done these short treatments so I'm no expert. Seems like there is a lot of potential swings ahead for these corals in such a new tank. I hope everything does well.

 

[rueric]

Thanks, yes I haven’t started the copper treatment yet as I’m waiting for my parameters to stabilize a bit first.
My temporary tank I setup went through a similar phase of low alk.. I’m guessing it may be due to using only dry rock to cycle the tank.

Im definitely making this harder on myself and possibly corals with my time lines but I think with some effort I should be able to minimize the swings.

I think I’ll hold off on the water change for now and slowly bring my alk up towards 8 over the next few days. My last water change (40%, using Red Sea blue bucket) was only on Monday.

I’m expecting around 2 week time line for my tank to stabilize as that was when my ph in my temporary tank started to have the predictable ph swings throughout the day

 

[Shirak]

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