Coral issues

[Jacobyang]

Hi yall I've had this tank for about 6 month now, I've added some corals and has some issues with it. I've bought 2 pieces of euphyllia coral, some kind of torch. It seems to be doing well and I've been feeding it reef roids directly daily along with sometimes mysis and brine shrimp. It hasn't been growing, one frag is 2 heads and one frag is 1 head, the one head frag seems to have something growing from its skeleton, I've attached pictures below. Is it growing a new head? Or is there any other issues, also are there new ways of growing the coral?

Also I bought some zoas from the store as well, all other heads seems to be doing well except for 2 heads. Water chemistry is about 1ppm nitrate, 0ppm nitrite, phosphate and about 8.3 pH. The tank is 30 gallons and I've been dosing reef supplements reef plus and reef fusion 2 from seachem. How can I improve this situation?

 

[Jacobyang]

Could it be my lighting? I'm using
Xies Aquarium LED Lights 30W Saltwater Lighting w/Touch Control & 3W Cree Chips Coral Reef Nano Fish Tank Lamp
from amazon

 

[Gareth elliott]

What test kits are you using?

Sounds like they want more nutrients, for me euphylia and soft corals prefer around 5-10ppm nitrate and .01-.1 phosphate.

 

[Jacobyang]

What test kits are you using?

Sounds like they want more nutrients, for me euphylia and soft corals prefer around 5-10ppm nitrate and .01-.1 phosphate.

I'm using saltwater master test kit from api

 

[BarSnackz]

I think you may be getting some false positives on your PO4 and NO3. It looks to me like there is some green hair algae in your tank and I believe that that could be what is consuming your nutrients as you are excessively feeding your corals. Are you doing water changes regularly? I would probably cut the feeding down to reef roids once or twice a week and cut out the other supplements.
From there - keep up with water changes and manual removal of the GHA so they stop stripping nutrients for your water. Then you can make some other tweaks as far as lighting and dosing goes as you see fit.

 

[dadnjesse]

Get a better test kit. reef roids daily is too much.

 

[Jacobyang]

I'm running nutrient control, carbon and phosguard from seachem. I will remove the GHA and go from there, what is the thing growing on my torch? Should I remove it?

 

[Hemmdog]

I'm running nutrient control, carbon and phosguard from seachem. I will remove the GHA and go from there, what is the thing growing on my torch? Should I remove it?

Stop running phosguard if you have low phosphate. Get better test kits. You also need to know your alk, cal, and mag. The light is also inadequate imo.