drawman
2500 Club Member
Looking for a second or reinforced opinion on my frogspawn frag. I haven't kept a ton of euphyllias especially not under LEDs so I'm swallowing my pride on this one. I received this frag Dec 2nd for the WWC live sale. It arrived in okay shape but was slow and reluctant to open. I also got a hammer coral that has been doing great. This frogspawn is about 6 inches to the left of the hammer, pretty much directly under my Radion G3. Flow is moderate with nothing direct on it. It never really seemed to accept food when I got it and has slowly gone downhill since.
My first thought is that I was blasting it too hard with light. Radion schedule had a slow ramp up and ramp down with peak around 65% (reduced on Green/Red). Coral is about 10-12 inches below the water line and the single Radion is on an RMS mount. 3 days ago I set the acclimate timer to 50% for 6 weeks to see if it will rebound on me.
Nitrates are pretty high at 50ppm right now in this tank so I know that's not helping and could be the true source of my issues. I will be doing some large water changes to try to get this down. I also have some other things I've been doing that I've documented in another thread so it probably doesn't make much sense to rehash them here.
Other than that tank params are pretty good and are as follows:
SG 1.025
Ca 420ppm
Alk 7.42 dKh
PO4 .03ppm
I know it's in bad shape so opinions are welcome.
My first thought is that I was blasting it too hard with light. Radion schedule had a slow ramp up and ramp down with peak around 65% (reduced on Green/Red). Coral is about 10-12 inches below the water line and the single Radion is on an RMS mount. 3 days ago I set the acclimate timer to 50% for 6 weeks to see if it will rebound on me.
Nitrates are pretty high at 50ppm right now in this tank so I know that's not helping and could be the true source of my issues. I will be doing some large water changes to try to get this down. I also have some other things I've been doing that I've documented in another thread so it probably doesn't make much sense to rehash them here.
Other than that tank params are pretty good and are as follows:
SG 1.025
Ca 420ppm
Alk 7.42 dKh
PO4 .03ppm
I know it's in bad shape so opinions are welcome.
