Coral Issue

[Mike_1]

Hello,

I was hoping someone could help me figure out what is wrong with my coral. It’s been fine for a couple months now and this past week it’s started to do this. Everything else has seemed fine up to this point.

Alk 9.6
Calcium 450
Salinity 1.027
Mag 1380
Phosphate currently .22. It varies between .1-.3 currently use Phosban for it.

No real swings. I dose 2ml a day of all for reef to keep things “stable” otherwise everything drops more.

In the tank is a clown, clown goby, and two peppermint shrimp. Also have a handful of blue hermits and snails as a cleanup crew.

 

[Spare time]

Nitrate level?

 

[Brandon3000]

Torch seems to be on it's way out. How's the flesh look on the heads? When mine start to display that behavior, I try and isolate the heads in hopes that whatever is going on doesn't take all the heads down with it.

 

[noahwz]

Polyp Bailout, in my experience, this is hard to stop once its begun. You can try and frag the head that is struggling and hope that the other head survives. If water is stable, I'd try a coral dip to control any pests or bacteria.

 

[Mike_1]

nitrate is 5. I will try a dip. Nothing has changed in my tank so maybe it’ll stop the loss. If not I’ll just wait awhile before I get another I suppose

 

[Wayofthereef]

You probably want to consider raising your nitrate to compensate for the elevated phosphate. Have you had the coral long? And what the other person said about cutting it to save the one head is a good idea.. 99% dont come back from the point where yours is at.

 

[Mike_1]

I’ve had it probably 4-5 months now? So not a crazy long time but not yesterday either.

TBH I wouldn’t know how to raise nitrates

 

[noahwz]

Neonitro is a great product for managing low levels of nitrate.