Everything happy except frogspawn

[Rjmul]

I have a mixed tank with mostly zoas and acros. Everything in my tank is happy except my expensive frogspawn. It's not receded but it's shrunken. It's in high light and medium flow, but it's been in that spot since I got it and it has been happy there.

Two days ago I took the frogspawn off the rock and found two vermatid snails, I cut them off and dipped the coral in iodine and coral RX. It's still struggling.

Yesterday I lost a torch to brown jelly. It doesn't appear to have effected anything else.

Nitrate 5
Phosphate .03
Alk 9.8
Calcium 440
Magnesium 1320

Any tips would be awesome

 

[Big G]

Bump

 

[Fred2482]

By no means am I an expert with Euphyllia - end of disclaimer....
I had the same problem despite the good ICP test results. All other corals were perfect, my frogspawn started receding and eventually died, a little later lost a wall hammer to brown jelly. The rest of my euphyllia started receding and just never looked great but didn't die. I had been feeding reef roids and mysis until they wouldn't eat the mysis any longer. My LFS gave me some strange advice to dose red sea's part a/b and literally in 2 weeks my euphyllia started splitting and have never looked better. Its hard to say if there was an additional problem and time fixed it, or if these additives provided something missing for the euphyllia. Hopefully someone a lot smarter will chime in, just thought this was worth sharing.

 

[Rjmul]

By no means am I an expert with Euphyllia - end of disclaimer....
I had the same problem despite the good ICP test results. All other corals were perfect, my frogspawn started receding and eventually died, a little later lost a wall hammer to brown jelly. The rest of my euphyllia started receding and just never looked great but didn't die. I had been feeding reef roids and mysis until they wouldn't eat the mysis any longer. My LFS gave me some strange advice to dose red sea's part a/b and literally in 2 weeks my euphyllia started splitting and have never looked better. Its hard to say if there was an additional problem and time fixed it, or if these additives provided something missing for the euphyllia. Hopefully someone a lot smarter will chime in, just thought this was worth sharing.

Hmm interesting. I have acro power on a doser but I've been very conservative with it. Maybe I could increase that a bit

 

[Fred2482]

Hmm interesting. I have acro power on a doser but I've been very conservative with it. Maybe I could increase that a bit

Again, not sure if it's what helped them but it's worth a try while you continue to troubleshoot.

 

[Rjmul]

Again, not sure if it's what helped them but it's worth a try while you continue to troubleshoot.

You might be on to something, If you're really curious, my Euphyllia look good the first half of the day.

Coincidentally I dose acropower at 7am.
Lights on at 7:30
Second and last dose at noon.

Then they go down hill from there throughout the day.

 

[Fred2482]

Interesting. Seems like an easy experiment with little chance of negative impact to dose more and see what happens.

 

[Fishingandreefing]

Same problem here. Most of my sps are doing good but some euphyllias are not. Perhaps it’s difficult to keep a mixed reef

 

[Rjmul]

Same problem here. Most of my sps are doing good but some euphyllias are not. Perhaps it’s difficult to keep a mixed reef

It's definitely difficult. What are your parameters ?

 

[Cell]

Hi my name is Cell and I can't grow euphyllia either.

 

[InvaderJim]

You might be on to something, If you're really curious, my Euphyllia look good the first half of the day.

Coincidentally I dose acropower at 7am.
Lights on at 7:30
Second and last dose at noon.

Then they go down hill from there throughout the day.

Just curious but how does it look at night when the lights are out? Still closed up or does it fully open?

 

[Rjmul]

Just curious but how does it look at night when the lights are out? Still closed up or does it fully open?

Still closed(ish) I've made zero progress.

 

[Fred2482]

I'm assuming flow and lighting are ideal?

 

[Rjmul]

I'm assuming flow and lighting are ideal?

Flow is good. I have a LOT of lighting but nothing is bleached. Is bleaching the only sign of too much light ? I did move them lower and things were looking good today when I got home

 

[Fred2482]

Bleaching is a sign for sure, especially on SPS . I have noticed with Hammers that they recede if they get too much light/flow.