CanI save this Lobo

[eqbal9947]

Hey guys,
I just got back from a 2 week vacation and my LPS look like garbage.
My lobo, favia and mussa all look like they’re dying. The micromussa supposed to be blue lol. It’s the colour of cyano at this point
Is there anything I can do?
My water parameters are as follows
Salinity: 1.025
DK: 9.5
Phosphate: 0.17
Nitrate : 21
Calcium: 540 ( not sure if I trust Hanna checker as this point for calcium)
Magnesium: 1480 (aquaforest)

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

What of your parameters have Changed?

Are these current numbers where the tank usually sits?

 

[Derrick0580]

As long as there is still flesh it is saveable….what are your current parameter? Need to get them in line and make sure it isn’t getting too much light.

 

[Uncle99]

Sure, but something fluxed (likely Alk) widely while your on vacation. Did your 9.5 alk stay within .5dkh of this at all times?

 

[DE FISH]

Are you target feeding it ? I let my tank go for a few weeks as my head wasn’t in the right place my Trachy looked terrible started target feeding it again and it’s came back looking as good as it was before. You’ve probably had alk fluctuating too so try and get everything stable and feed any coral that has a mouth.

 

[Dom]

Yeah... I've left my tanks longer than that and things didn't look like this when I got back.

Does your tank thrive when you are home and attentive to it? If so, I would think that getting back to your husbandry routine is all you need.

 

[eqbal9947]

What of your parameters have Changed?

Are these current numbers where the tank usually sits?

Those numbers are as of last night.
Nothing has changed except the DK going down from like 10 to 9.5 in the last 3 weeks.
I had a bit of a Dino issue but it seems to have resolved itself

 

[eqbal9947]

Yeah... I've left my tanks longer than that and things didn't look like this when I got back.

Does your tank thrive when you are home and attentive to it? If so, I would think that getting back to your husbandry routine is all you need.

Im very new, but as far as I could tell they looked okay. I did have a phosphate swings and diatoms that took over the exposed skeleton on some corals but I brushed them off.
I also had Dino so i couldn’t really change water. But my parameters seem to be pretty stable from when I left to now

 

[Dom]

Im very new, but as far as I could tell they looked okay. I did have a phosphate swings and diatoms that took over the exposed skeleton on some corals but I brushed them off.
I also had Dino so i couldn’t really change water. But my parameters seem to be pretty stable from when I left to now

1. How old is the tank?
2. What lighting do you have?
3. What is the depth of the tank?

 

[eqbal9947]

1. How old is the tank?
2. What lighting do you have?
3. What is the depth of the tank?

Tank is 3 months old
AI hydra 32HD
2ft and lights are 13 inches from the water level

 

[rhostam]

I’ve kept a few lobos. When they took a turn for the worse due to a prolonged elevate PO4 about a year into their residence in my tank and their flesh started to do this. They hung on for weeks, but algae started to take hold and I’m not even show how flesh would grow back over those spikes. Sadly, mine were not able to recover.

I wish you the best of luck. They are wonderful creatures.

 

[Uncle99]

Tank is 3 months old
AI hydra 32HD
2ft and lights are 13 inches from the water level

IMM, 3 months maturity is not enough for stable waters to allow the sufficient population of some of the good bacteria strains, ones that intake phosphate to feed our corals.

Softies do better in these early stages but stoneys I leave till about 8 months and some good coralline circles.

After that, everything you drop does great.

Just give her some time and employ those things that keep chemistry as stable as possible.

This allows those “Good Guys” to populate at a faster rate.

 

[eqbal9947]

I’ve kept a few lobos. When they took a turn for the worse due to a prolonged elevate PO4 about a year into their residence in my tank and their flesh started to do this. They hung on for weeks, but algae started to take hold and I’m not even show how flesh would grow back over those spikes. Sadly, mine were not able to recover.

I wish you the best of luck. They are wonderful creatures.

Thanks. Must be the phosphate!
appreciate it

 

[Dom]

Tank is 3 months old
AI hydra 32HD
2ft and lights are 13 inches from the water level

So that is 37 inches from light to tank bottom.

An 18 inch high tank with AI Hydra 32HD mounted 13 inches above the water line gives a par reading of 120. Your tank is a bit deeper...

Honestly, I'm not certain why this is going on. I would do a water change and get back to your regular husbandry routine.