Candy Cane Polyp Dislodging

[Cool Fish]

It appears one of the polyps on my neon Candy Cane Coral is about to cut loose from the base. Has anyone ever seen this? What can I deduce from this? Is there anything I should do about it?

 

[Lemons]

Any pictures? And kinda sounds like polyp bailout to me

 

[Cool Fish]

Any pictures? And kinda sounds like polyp bailout to me

Take a look…

 

[Lemons]

Yup polyp bail, it is NOT liking something in the water. I'd test water ASAP and possibly be getting a water change going.

What are your parameters?

 

[Cool Fish]

Nitrates are high: 40
Alk: 9.3
Calc: 440
ph: 8.2
phos. 25
I'm also dealing with a dinos issue.

 

[Lemons]

Not wicked high for nitrates but that phos is rasing my eyebrow, how long have your nutrients been elevated?? Are you running carbon? (Just to maybe rule out any contaminants)

*edit* also try to get that Phos down that probably is what is causing the bail as its like 8x the normal lol

 

[Eoka]

Nitrates are high: 40
Alk: 9.3
Calc: 440
ph: 8.2
phos. 25
I'm also dealing with a dinos issue.

I run my nitrates at 5 and phos at 0.05 you should proubably look into way to atleast lower in to 10 nitrates and 0.1 phos. Idk if that the issue though I would just look up causes for it I guess.

 

[Cool Fish]

Not wicked high for nitrates but that phos is rasing my eyebrow, how long have your nutrients been elevated?? Are you running carbon? (Just to maybe rule out any contaminants)

I was having a low nutrient issue....low nitrates and phosphate. So discontinued the skimmer and phos reactor to bring things up. Well, now they are up. So, last week began using the skimmer again. Still have not set up the phos reactor, tho. These numbers have been holding for about 3 months.

 

[Lemons]

And ill answer whats probably on your mind. Will the polyp survive? Hard to say. Ive seen cases where once quickly relocated to proper water and left alone they can build a skeleton again...

But 90% of the time it is a fatal- last ditch effort

 

[Lemons]

I was having a low nutrient issue....low nitrates and phosphate. So discontinued the skimmer and phos reactor to bring things up. Well, now they are up. So, last week began using the skimmer again. Still have not set up the phos reactor, tho. These numbers have been holding for about 3 months.

0.25 phos for three months?

 

[Cool Fish]

And ill answer whats probably on your mind. Will the polyp survive? Hard to say. Ive seen cases where once quickly relocated to proper water and left alone they can build a skeleton again...

But 90% of the time it is a fatal- last ditch effort

Yeah, I've never seen that before. I am not sure what the actual cause might be. But, I have been trying to get rid of the dinos and may have taken my eye off the ball, so to speak, causing other issues.

 

[Cool Fish]

0.25 phos for three months?

yep.

 

[Lemons]

yep.

Weird... have you noticed any reduction in alk/ca consumption???

Sometimes it takes months for things to kill corals.

You mentioned fighting dinos. Anything besides trying to manage nutrients? Change of light? Temp? Anything?

 

[Cool Fish]

Weird... have you noticed any reduction in alk/ca consumption???

Sometimes it takes months for things to kill corals.

You mentioned fighting dinos. Anything besides trying to manage nutrients? Change of light? Temp? Anything?

I have noticed an increase in Alk. So, I cut back my dosing to bring it down a bit. I am trying not to mess around with too many things at the same time. By the way, I did a water change yesterday for the first time in 2 months, longest I've ever gone before doing a change.