Coral help
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Mikedawg
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Under bluish light, I see very little tissue; is it primarily a skeleton? Sometimes one like this will come back, but this looks in pretty bad shape.
Lower light, lower flow is about all you can do, ime.
Lower light, lower flow is about all you can do, ime.
courtstig
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All I have are these ****** api tests but according to them everything is pretty much zero also the skimmer doesn’t pull hardly anything maybe I should try some zoo plankton tonight idk
Rmckoy
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Best thing you could do is move it to lower flow , lower light .
Make sure you have some nutrients but stable parameters .
and 2) keep your hands out of the tank , stop touching
Shirak
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What else is in your tank? zero is not good. Your rock looks really clean so I am guessing there is very little nutrients available for the corals.
Shirak
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Any photos of the other LPS? How long have you had the other corals? Corals can look fine for months while slowly starving to death.
Too much light is a hard question to answer. Generally better off starting new corals in lower light and see how they respond and then moving them to brighter locations over time. Helps though to know what coral you have and what they prefer as a general preference. But that only helps if you know what your par levels are in your tank at various locations Or if you have other corals that like the same general light range that you have had for several months at least and have grown and look healthy over that time frame.
I am still leaning towards low nutrients based on the limited information on what you say the API tests report "everything is pretty much zero" and what I see in the tank with the look of the rock.. very white and not much growing on it. Corals need food in the form of nitrate and phosphate from the water and to some degree actual food particles they can ingest. If there is little nutrients in the water then food particles become more important.
Too much light is a hard question to answer. Generally better off starting new corals in lower light and see how they respond and then moving them to brighter locations over time. Helps though to know what coral you have and what they prefer as a general preference. But that only helps if you know what your par levels are in your tank at various locations Or if you have other corals that like the same general light range that you have had for several months at least and have grown and look healthy over that time frame.
I am still leaning towards low nutrients based on the limited information on what you say the API tests report "everything is pretty much zero" and what I see in the tank with the look of the rock.. very white and not much growing on it. Corals need food in the form of nitrate and phosphate from the water and to some degree actual food particles they can ingest. If there is little nutrients in the water then food particles become more important.
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Lower its location and provide moderate light and water flow and assure your point of sale-nitrate-ph and alk is not elevated
Shirak
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I like the Salifert tests for basic Alk, Ca, Mg
Hanna ULR phosphate tester. Not really fond of any of the other kits on the market when dealing with very low levels of phosphate
Many use the salifert Nitrate although I prefer the NYOS.
Get some decent kits for those 5 things. Alk, NO3, and PO4. Ca and Mg can come later if you don't have a lot of stony corals and do regular water changes with reef type salt they should be fine for now.
Hanna Alk tester is nice but the Salifert is fine and cheaper if $ are an issue.
Hanna ULR phosphate tester. Not really fond of any of the other kits on the market when dealing with very low levels of phosphate
Many use the salifert Nitrate although I prefer the NYOS.
Get some decent kits for those 5 things. Alk, NO3, and PO4. Ca and Mg can come later if you don't have a lot of stony corals and do regular water changes with reef type salt they should be fine for now.
Hanna Alk tester is nice but the Salifert is fine and cheaper if $ are an issue.
