Coral id

[frankin09]

I bought this coral at the lfs but I have forgotten the name. It is bubbly in a way. It’s not a bubble coral .

 

[KrisReef]

Perhaps a Pearl bubble, or a Fox coral?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I bought this coral at the lfs but I have forgotten the name. It is bubbly in a way. It’s not a bubble coral .

If left- may be fox

 

[frankin09]

If left- may be fox

By chance do you know these 2

 

[vetteguy53081]

By chance do you know these 2

Purple fuzzy and one to left is dead looks like fungia plate or tongue coral. Often in this state they do come back alive.

 

[frankin09]

Purple fuzzy and one to left is dead looks like tongue coral. Often in this state they do come back alive.

How long would you estimate it take for progress to been seen it getting better. Would it be okay to add more Coral this fast. I added 5 today, but I was wondering if I could add more tomorrow? Tank has been set up for 2 years.

 

[vetteguy53081]

How long would you estimate it take for progress to been seen it getting better. Would it be okay to add more Coral this fast. I added 5 today, but I was wondering if I could add more tomorrow? Tank has been set up for 2 years.

Personally I would space it out to assure new ones doing well and to also determine consumption of alk and calcium

 

[frankin09]

Personally I would space it out to assure new ones doing well and to also determine consumption of alk and calcium

Right now all of corals that I picked up today are on the sand bed. Should I leave them there for a while?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Right now all of corals that I picked up today are on the sand bed. Should I leave them there for a while?

from your pics, those are typically placed on the sand

 

[frankin09]

from your pics, those are typically placed on the sand

I’ve been reading to leave acans close to sand bed as well.

 

[Kasrift]

How long would you estimate it take for progress to been seen it getting better. Would it be okay to add more Coral this fast. I added 5 today, but I was wondering if I could add more tomorrow? Tank has been set up for 2 years.

This is really dependent on the system. For having your tank up for 2 years, it looks like you have diatoms. Imbalances in the parameters will kill corals regardless of how long the tank has been up. Do you know your parameters and have good test kits?

 

[Kasrift]

Purple fuzzy and one to left is dead looks like fungia plate or tongue coral. Often in this state they do come back alive.

You may be right, but in the first picture it looks like a hammer coral in rough shape with one dead head to the left of the skeletal structure. The one on the right looks like a chalice or Acan echinata of some sort.

 

[frankin09]

This is really dependent on the system. For having your tank up for 2 years, it looks like you have diatoms. Imbalances in the parameters will kill corals regardless of how long the tank has been up. Do you know your parameters and have good test kits?

Ph-8.2

Nitrite-0

Nitrate-10

Ammonia-0

Mag-1400

Ca-410
Using Red Sea

 

[vetteguy53081]

You may be right, but in the first picture it looks like a hammer coral in rough shape with one dead head to the left of the skeletal structure. The one on the right looks like a chalice or Acan echinata of some sort.

Purple- Pic is fuzzy, not a purple fuzzy. . . LOL

 

[frankin09]

You may be right, but in the first picture it looks like a hammer coral in rough shape with one dead head to the left of the skeletal structure. The one on the right looks like a chalice or Acan echinata of some sort.

I don’t believe it is a hammer. It has like multiple bubbles.

 

[Kasrift]

Ph-8.2

Nitrite-0

Nitrate-10

Ammonia-0

Mag-1400

Ca-410
Using Red Sea

Phosphates and alk?

 

[frankin09]

You may be right, but in the first picture it looks like a hammer coral in rough shape with one dead head to the left of the skeletal structure. The one on the right looks like a chalice or Acan echinata of some sort.

These are my other corals

 

[frankin09]

Phosphates and alk?

Alk is at 9, don’t have a phosphates test

 

[MoshJosh]

Coral in OP does not look to be doing well whatever it is, a claerer picture might prove otherwise, but for now that is my evaluation. The purple coral might be a pink stylocoeniella, but again the picture is fuzzy. The pale circle is a "fungia" of some type but appears to be dead, though as Vetta mentioned these corals have been known to come back. I agree with others, I would wait to add corals until you know the new additions are doing well.

Also, diatoms on the sand?

 

[frankin09]

Coral in OP does not look to be doing well whatever it is, a claerer picture might prove otherwise, but for now that is my evaluation. The purple coral might be a pink stylocoeniella, but again the picture is fuzzy. The pale circle is a "fungia" of some type but appears to be dead, though as Vetta mentioned these corals have been known to come back. I agree with others, I would wait to add corals until you know the new additions are doing well.

Also, diatoms on the sand?

How would I be able to fight diatoms? Clean up crew doesn’t really anything.