Digitata care tips is something wrong?

[Alex's Nano Reef]

About a week and a half ago I bought this frag and put it into my tank upon cuttin off the drag plug the drag plot into two peices the first day there was really good poly extrension on the bottom half of the frag and ok polyp extension on on the top half of the frag. I placed both peices in a high flow high light area of my tank. Next time I saw the coral the top half of the frag had polyps that weren’t extrended but a few were on the tip of thebfrag shown in the picture. Does anyone have any idea to why this might be. Possible not enugh or too much flow maybe just trauma. Any suggestions.

 

[P-Dub]

Let it ride and stop fretting. the bottom half looks good so the flow and lighting must be ok. SPS's do the darndest things.

 

[Cüneyt]

Possible you have high nutrients specially PO4
I can are it from algae on your rocks

Checking parameters and flow would be good idea to start

Good luck

 

[Alex's Nano Reef]

Possible you have high nutrients specially PO4
I can are it from algae on your rocks

Checking parameters and flow would be good idea to start

Good luck

Both peices are in very high flow areas possible nutrients

 

[Alex's Nano Reef]

Possible you have high nutrients specially PO4
I can are it from algae on your rocks

Checking parameters and flow would be good idea to start

Good luck

i just re introduced my skimmer to my tank maybe it will help export some of the nutrients.

 

[kapnkush608]

They are pretty resilient if your tank is where it needs to be. I left my forest fire in a 50/50 hydrogen peroxide dip for an hour on accident( nature called, loudly). I thought it was done for but it bounced back from about 10 bleached out polyps to about a 3" by 2" patch with branches start to push up. Just make sure your parameters are solid and give it some time.

 

[Alex's Nano Reef]

Hey i got a update what does everyone think getting worse i re introduced my protein skimmer which is a big one for a 20g tank and am gonna run PhosGuard from seachem for 2

weeks.

 

[kapnkush608]

What are your parameters? What part is it at? Did you acclimate it to the light? What kind of light do you have vs the seller? It kinda looks like it's either bleaching from light or too much/ too little nutrients from the pictures.

 

[JohnMzreef]

I don't think a 20g tank really needs all that. Just do a 5 gallon water change. In the future you might want to place new frags lower in the tank for a week.

 

[Cüneyt]

Water changes are your best friend my in 20g tank

I doubt efficiency of small skimmers in nano tanks

Make big water changes add some bacteria and you are good to go

I suspect you do not have enough bacteria if that’s the case skimmer will not help also

You will get there...don’t add so much commercial nutrient export products when there is easy way like water changes and use advantage of small size that’s allows you to do big water changes to balance nutrients