Corals not doing good please help

[Maggie321]

Anything I should be running in my hob skimmer ?

If you want to raise nitrates and phosphates, stop running your skimmer for a few days and test your parameters.

 

[Town-916]

If you want to raise nitrates and phosphates, stop running your skimmer for a few days and test your parameters.

Good idea thank that will probaly raise it up slowly versus me adding chemicals.

 

[Town-916]

Update on bubble and torch . Bubble seem to be doing slightly better bubble are tryouts msg to form again as for the torch 2 heads are coming back out but other 2 have this weird milky web stuff coming out of it I marked it in one of the pics

 

[chowwil]

Update on bubble and torch . Bubble seem to be doing slightly better bubble are tryouts msg to form again as for the torch 2 heads are coming back out but other 2 have this weird milky web stuff coming out of it I marked it in one of the pics

Looks much better, they are starting to bounce back. The stuff coming from the mouth of the torch looks like waste. They will do that from time to time, no worries.

 

[Town-916]

Looks much better, they are starting to bounce back. The stuff coming from the mouth of the torch looks like waste. They will do that from time to time, no worries.

Ok I was a lil worried because only two head were doing it only

 

[nemlover91]

I’m

using Chinese black box I have 2 of them 165w have blue set to 50 and whites to 10 also try checking for bug day and night and none that I can’t see

How long is your tank? How high do you have them above the water line? I am running three of these lights on a 6ft 125 reef. Settings are whites on lowest setting and blues on 50? I am willing to bet big money they are to close or settings are high.
I had AI Vegas that melted corals and they looked exactly like yours do.

 

[nemlover91]

The bubble coral will take some time to come back. I have found that the healing time with these corals is very slow. When the lights go off try feeding it if possible.

 

[Town-916]

The bubble coral will take some time to come back. I have found that the healing time with these corals is very slow. When the lights go off try feeding it if possible.

Thanks I will definitely try turn down the lighting down I have a 55 gallon tank I believe it is 4 foot long

 

[Town-916]

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The bubble coral will take some time to come back. I have found that the healing time with these corals is very slow. When the lights go off try feeding it if possible.

s it at 50 blue and white at 10

 

[Town-916]

Is an updated picture as of today

 

[nemlover91]

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s it at 50 blue and white at 10

how high from the water line is it?

 

[Town-916]

And I did not get a chance to take those dang color pebbles out I turned off skimmer for the night and is currently off to see if I seen improvement

 

[nemlover91]

It looks a lot better! what did you do to it?

 

[Town-916]

how high from the water line is it?

I want to say it’s about Maybe 5 inches

 

[Town-916]

I want to say it’s about Maybe 5 inches

I haven’t really done nothing other than turn off the skimmer for the night it was starting to do better yesterday and apparently is doing way better today

 

[nemlover91]

Another big thing to look for is algae growing on the exposed skeleton as it heals. If this happens you can lightly brush it off with a toothbrush. Just make sure not to tear the tissue that is close to the algae. Low flow will help it not tear more as well as previously mentioned.

 

[nemlover91]

I want to say it’s about Maybe 5 inches

I would raise at least double that if possible.... someone else may want to chime in. I have mine set at 14 inches above the waterline if not higher....

 

[Town-916]

Another big thing to look for is algae growing on the exposed skeleton as it heals. If this happens you can lightly brush it off with a toothbrush. Just make sure not to tear the tissue that is close to the algae. Low flow will help it not tear more as well as previously mentioned.

will look out for that but have not seen any yet

 

[Town-916]

I would raise at least double that if possible.... someone else may want to chime in. I have mine set at 14 inches above the waterline if not higher....

Sorry I was confusedI have my light about 12 to 16 inches from the waterline

 

[nemlover91]

I would raise at least double that if possible.... someone else may want to chime in. I have mine set at 14 inches above the waterline if not higher....

Here is my tank with the same settings and lights. Just have them higher above the water line. More than enough light for multiple species.