Are scolys easy to keep?

[DSC reef]

Agree with above. Established tank, occasional feedings and stable/consistent parameters. Always liked scolys and trachyphyllia

 

[ReefEngr]

I consider scoly hardy and easy to keep. Like most lps corals, they like low-medium light and low-medium flow.

 

[Marie7]

For me this type of coral is hard to keep, mines dies, every time I bought one it end up dryin out, any suggestions?

 

[ReefEngr]

I consider scoly hardy and easy to keep.

For me this type of coral is hard to keep, mines dies, every time I bought one it end up dryin out, any suggestions?

By "drying out", you mean the flesh recede back into the skeleton? How are your parameters? Too much light and flow will cause lps flesh to recede too.

 

[geovento7]

I’d echo what everyone is saying, low light low flow. This bleeding apple I have was on the brink of death and grew back several mouths on the same skeleton. My favorite at the moment.

Please provide what you did to recover and how long it took

 

[Marie7]

By "drying out", you mean the flesh recede back into the skeleton? How are your parameters? Too much light and flow will cause lps flesh to recede too.

Honestly I haven't check the parameters going do it tomorrow and yes the get into a skeleton it happen with all hard corals I buy , soft corals no issues

 

[Hemmdog]

Honestly I haven't check the parameters going do it tomorrow and yes the get into a skeleton it happen with all hard corals I buy , soft corals no issues

Are you dosing alk, cal, and mag?

 

[ReefEngr]

Honestly I haven't check the parameters going do it tomorrow and yes the get into a skeleton it happen with all hard corals I buy , soft corals no issues

If it's happening to all hard corals, then it's most likely water chemistry issues. You should test the water ASAP and make corrections. Remember to make the changes slowly though. You don't want big swings in parameters in a short period of time.

 

[LV3]

Please provide what you did to recover and how long it took

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/operation-save-the-scoly.328747/

 

[Marie7]

If it's happening to all hard corals, then it's most likely water chemistry issues. You should test the water ASAP and make corrections. Remember to make the changes slowly though. You don't want big swings in parameters in a short period of time.

Thank you....

 

[Marie7]

I don't do it often

 

[Marie7]

Are you dosing alk, cal, and mag?

Not very often

 

[Hemmdog]

Not very often

What’s your alk, cal, mag, salinity, nitrate, phosphate, and what lights.

 

[Marie7]

What’s your alk, cal, mag, salinity, nitrate, phosphate, and what lights.

Honestly I haven't had time to check I will work on it when I get home tonight. I need to learn the ideal parameters on the aquarium still, it a lil confuse all I'm worry mostly is my pH , nitrate, phos, salinity

 

[Marie7]

What’s your alk, cal, mag, salinity, nitrate, phosphate, and what lights.

Ok results are in, lolll
Salinity 1.028
PH 7.8
Amonia 0
Nitrite 160
Calcium 460
Nitrates 160 (high, even with water changes)
KH 161.1
Phosphate PO4 0.50
I been trying to keep this last one as low as possible, I'm going do a partial water change tomorrow but the one that concerns me more is the Nitrates which remains in the red colors and high numbers even with the partial water changes, phosphate concerns me too, I been adding to my sump the bag of phos-zorb and some times not all times I throw a bag of charcoal but this very seldom.
Here's some pictures of my sump, I keep it pretty simple, the skimmer is picking up pretty good and doing it's job.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciate as I would love to have my hard corals grow, I bought an expensive one and here's the condition of it.

 

[Hemmdog]

Yea. Do a big big water change, and get the salinity to 1.025 for sure. I would then look into adding a bag of chemipure blue and chemipure elite to your sump somewhere with good flow. I think that would help a lot with both high nutrient issues. Really cool tank though! Your tank may be a good candidate for Nopox or something chemical as compared to a media in your filter to help with the nutrients in the short term. So maybe look into that. The scoly is salvageable still but we gotta be proactive

 

[Marie7]

Yea. Do a big big water change, and get the salinity to 1.025 for sure. I would then look into adding a bag of chemipure blue and chemipure elite to your sump somewhere with good flow. I think that would help a lot with both high nutrient issues. Really cool tank though! Your tank may be a good candidate for Nopox or something chemical as compared to a media in your filter to help with the nutrients in the short term. So maybe look into that. The scoly is salvageable still but we gotta be proactive

how can I save it?

 

[Marie7]

Yea. Do a big big water change, and get the salinity to 1.025 for sure. I would then look into adding a bag of chemipure blue and chemipure elite to your sump somewhere with good flow. I think that would help a lot with both high nutrient issues. Really cool tank though! Your tank may be a good candidate for Nopox or something chemical as compared to a media in your filter to help with the nutrients in the short term. So maybe look into that. The scoly is salvageable still but we gotta be proactive [/QUOT
Are you talking about this? I also have this...
The NO PO X is complicated to understand I'm trying to follow instructions for a 92 gallons but it's confusing

 

[Marie7]

how can I save it?

That NOPOX is confusing to use.... I have a 92 gallon tank.

 

[Marie7]

I lower the coral away from direct high light, it seems like it's doing better now or at least slowing down the process of dying, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and see how it develops, any suggestions are greatly appreciated ....