Coral help!!

[Erick Quintanilla]

Hi there hope you guys can help me out for some reason any skeleton corals dont do good in my tank I believe I have the right parameters. Today I came home and some of my hammers were off the skeleton is there any reason for this to be happening?

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

Hi there hope you guys can help me out for some reason any skeleton corals dont do good in my tank I believe I have the right parameters. Today I came home and some of my hammers were off the skeleton is there any reason for this to be happening?

Post photos and your parameters.

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Lets start with some parameter numbers, "good" doesn't explain much.

Salinity
Nitrates
Phosphates
Alk
Calcium
Magnesium

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

 

[NeonRabbit221B]

Parameters are moving a bit, do you dose? Can you take a picture? Is it possible anything is pestering it? Has it completely detached?

Typically this would be a last ditch effort for survival.. Not my expertise honestly. #reefsquad might be able to help

 

[GoVols]

Today I came home and some of my hammers were off the skeleton is there any reason for this to be happening?

Can you posts some shots, to rule out brown jelly disease?

Need to get your alkalinity like at 8.0 to 8.5 dHK and... hold it.

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

What brand test kit are you using?

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

Both of the hammer heads were gone. I use the red sea foundation test kit I also use Tropic Marin sea salt. How would I lower my Alkalinity?

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

The only thing I'm dosing right now is amino acids that's all.

 

[DarthSimon]

I would say your phosphates are too high. If I go over .15 I have issues with Euphyllia, and have had Polyp Bailouts with high phiophates.

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

Both of the hammer heads were gone. I use the red sea foundation test kit I also use Tropic Marin sea salt. How would I lower my Alkalinity?

Maybe try Salifert Test kit for Alk and see what you get. You might be getting a bad test but yeah 12.6 is high and I would say that is the issue.

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

I would say your phosphates are too high. If I go over .15 I have issues with Euphyllia, and have had Polyp Bailouts.

I agree Phos is also a bit high. You can use GFO to help with that.

 

[DarthSimon]

I control mine with GFO.

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

I control mine with GFO.

I control mine with a fuge full of super healthy Chaeto!

 

[Reeferdude1888]

Phosphate on the up side not by mutch though do you have any small Angel in the tank or juvenile emperor they scan be problematic with lps corals.

 

[Erick Quintanilla]

I have gfo now but dont have a reactor yet. I do not have Angel's in the tank. So what would you guys recommend me doing?

 

[bblumberg]

It is hard to understand how your alkalinity, Mg and Ca can be that high with Tropic Marin salt unless you are dosing which you say you are not.

I suspect that your salinity is much higher than what you think it is (how are measuring?) which would explain the elevated alkalinity, Mg and Ca. Do you have a way to calibrate your refractometer with a verified salinity standard? For example, I use "Two Little Fishies AccuraSea Seawater Reference and Calibration Solution" which you can get from Amazon and many other places. Or take a water sample to a LFS or friend and measure compared with theirs?

And yes, your phosphate is on the high side, but not nearly high enough to cause the loss of your hammers. I struggle to keep phosphate below 0.4 PPM in my tanks even with GFO and all corals, including hammers and torches are doing fine.