Corral not opening this morning

[Dfrashid]

OK so one of my best quarrels decided not to open completely today I did have a anemone get chopped up in my vortech last week and I have .25 ppm nitrites in my tank should I do a 10 gallon water change my total set up is about 45 gallons including sump please and Tips suggestions or advice would be much appreciated

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Idk about corals but feel the tang police gonna raid u.. All I see is a sps frag.

 

[reefbandit]

Where’s the coral in question? The bleached out dead one in the sand?

 

[Bucs20fan]

So you have alot going on here. First off, your birdsnest coral is bleaching. If you had a nem get destroyed, it has now destroyed alot of your micro fauna in the tank. Nems deteriorate super fast. You should do a 50% water change and run some carbon before it kills the rest of the life in the tank. Your tank is super clean, this leads me to believe its not very old yet and needs to mature a little more before you decide to go into alot of corals. I would also suggest researching everything you put in this tank heavily, not even gonna start on the powder blue in there.

Research every single thing you are going to do to this tank in the future, every fish, coral, bottled chemical, food, salt type, heater type, even your filter media.

RESEARCH EVERYTHING

 

[Dfrashid]

Where’s the coral in question? The bleached out dead one in the sand?

Yah I know it looks like a rock but it's right there in front center

 

[Dfrashid]

So you have alot going on here. First off, your birdsnest coral is bleaching. If you had a nem get destroyed, it has now destroyed alot of your micro fauna in the tank. Nems deteriorate super fast. You should do a 50% water change and run some carbon before it kills the rest of the life in the tank. Your tank is super clean, this leads me to believe its not very old yet and needs to mature a little more before you decide to go into alot of corals. I would also suggest researching everything you put in this tank heavily, not even gonna start on the powder blue in there.

Research every single thing you are going to do to this tank in the future, every fish, coral, bottled chemical, food, salt type, heater type, even your filter media.

RESEARCH EVERYTHING

It's been up and cycle for about a month now and I did a 20% water change this morning and as soon as the nem was discovered I removed him from the tank as far as the pbt he was given to me buy someone with a crashing tank (hes was Quarantine and the garage hospital)and he will be put in a bigger home soon also I just add Tigger pods and algaen pods day before and to be honest I'm not working so I tent to this tank like it's my baby

 

[Dfrashid]

It's been up and cycle for about a month now and I did a 20% water change this morning and as soon as the nem was discovered I removed him from the tank as far as the pbt he was given to me buy someone with a crashing tank (hes was Quarantine and the garage hospital)and he will be put in a bigger home soon also I just add Tigger pods and algaen pods day before and to be honest I'm not working so I tent to this tank like it's my baby

 

[Bucs20fan]

It's been up and cycle for about a month now and I did a 20% water change this morning and as soon as the nem was discovered I removed him from the tank as far as the pbt he was given to me buy someone with a crashing tank (hes was Quarantine and the garage hospital)and he will be put in a bigger home soon also I just add Tigger pods and algaen pods day before and to be honest I'm not working so I tent to this tank like it's my baby

A cycled tank and a mature tank are two entirely diffent things. A cycled tank can just sustain life, a matured tank breeds life. Corals can grow and reproduce in a mature tank, pods and algaes will grow and cover rocks. Mature is having a stable tank from the smallest organisms, bacteria, all the way up to fish.

 

[Bucs20fan]

Those are clove polyps. They are super easy to grow and tolerate alot of conditions. They dont like being blasted with light, or water that is too clean.

 

[Dfrashid]

Where’s the coral in question? The bleached out dead one in the sand?

 

[Dfrashid]

FYI didn't know I wasn't ready for the SPS coral yet I was told it be fined by the lady at the fish store but as we can tell it doesn't look to be fine

 

[Nate Chalk]

What.

 

[Bucs20fan]

FYI didn't know I wasn't ready for the SPS coral yet I was told it be fined by the lady at the fish store but as we can tell it doesn't look to be fine

Once you have stable coralline algae growth and it keeps going not dying off and growing back, this means there is stability. Stability and maturity are the basic building blocks for any sps corals.

 

[Dfrashid]

Once you have stable coralline algae growth and it keeps going not dying off and growing back, this means there is stability. Stability and maturity are the basic building blocks for any sps corals.

Should i remove the sps?

 

[Dfrashid]

Should i remove the sps?

I have algae growing around the rocks in little small round patches

 

[Bucs20fan]

I have algae growing around the rocks and little small round patches

Coralline algae is a mostly purple/pink calcareous algae that grows on rock and the glass, you dont have any of that yet.

 

[Dfrashid]

Coralline algae is a mostly purple/pink calcareous algae that grows on rock and the glass, you dont have any of that yet.

Thank you I highly appreciate all the information you are giving me and not just tearing me down also when I knowest the algae growing I tend to brush it off and do a water change am I messing up doing this?

 

[Bucs20fan]

You need to let the algae grow, and introduce some clean up crew, snails are your best bet.

 

[Dfrashid]

You need to let the algae grow, and introduce some clean up crew, snails are your best bet.

I have 5 snials and one cleaner shrimp

 

[Dfrashid]

I have 5 snials and one cleaner shrimp

Should I get more fyi I'm a clean freak