Gorgeous Brain Coral Dying, HELP!

[Tclason1]

My Brain has been slowly shrinking (flesh shrinking, skeleton showing, mouths open) for the past 48 hours. I’ve had for about 6 months now and has been totally healthy.
Parameters:
PAR:140
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0
Salinity: 1.025-1.026
Feed reef roids 2x a week.
Found some weird red spots underneath that are new....

 

[ndrwater]

LPS like a bit of Nitrate and Phosphate. Running zeros could be your issue..

And for the record, "My Brain has been slowly shrinking (flesh shrinking, skeleton showing, mouths open)" sounds like me after a long weekend

 

[Tclason1]

LPS like a bit of Nitrate and Phosphate. Running zeros could be your issue..

And for the record, "My Brain has been slowly shrinking (flesh shrinking, skeleton showing, mouths open)" sounds like me after a long weekend

Excellent advice, thank you. I will up the feeding!

 

[Lunardogz]

What are your calcium and alkalinity?

 

[brandon429]

So glad we did not opt for a dip. That’s stressful as a first reaction and this coral doesn’t have a history of disease or septal ridges would show from prior tissue recession, this is a hungry coral that wants some grinded up mysis plus rods feed spot injected 3x weekly sustained for two months. plump afterwards. Heavy blue lighting too much white lightens it

 

[brandon429]

The bottom growths should be foraminifera google that see if agreed. Harmless, you could have landed with a pulsing alien barnacle claw right out the center mouth lol those bottom red growths are harmless and not related to stress.

side note: look how living coral flesh rejects all anchors. When algae grows it will not be where flesh is, it’ll be on skeleton or an exposed ridge from tissue recession. When forams attach, it has to be an allowed zone so they pick the skeletal base. It’s simply neat to see places in a reef where invaders can’t anchor in place, coral flesh is a natural bioexcluder.

 

[Tclason1]

What are your calcium and alkalinity?

As of right now: Calcium is 410, Alk is 11, and Mag is 1300. Did a 50% water change just in case (idk never can hurt, even though other corals are fine including softies).
I’m going to up blue a tad and lower white/red, and bring up reef roid feeding to 2-3 times a week. Hoping he is just cranky because he’s hungry.

 

[Tclason1]

So glad we did not opt for a dip. That’s stressful as a first reaction and this coral doesn’t have a history of disease or septal ridges would show from prior tissue recession, this is a hungry coral that wants some grinded up mysis plus rods feed spot injected 3x weekly sustained for two months. plump afterwards. Heavy blue lighting too much white lightens it

Greatly appreciate the insights, thank you!

 

[Lunardogz]

As of right now: Calcium is 410, Alk is 11, and Mag is 1300. Did a 50% water change just in case (idk never can hurt, even though other corals are fine including softies).
I’m going to up blue a tad and lower white/red, and bring up reef roid feeding to 2-3 times a week. Hoping he is just cranky because he’s hungry.

Your alk is a little high in my opinion. I personally run my alk in my tank around 8.4 - 9. I noticed my LPS are not happy when I pass 10. Do you have a doser? Stability is very important. Big fluctuation will anger the corals off.

 

[Hemmdog]

As of right now: Calcium is 410, Alk is 11, and Mag is 1300. Did a 50% water change just in case (idk never can hurt, even though other corals are fine including softies).
I’m going to up blue a tad and lower white/red, and bring up reef roid feeding to 2-3 times a week. Hoping he is just cranky because he’s hungry.

A water change while you have zero nutrients could kill all your coral, so yeah it could hurt.

You need to feed that poor trachy meaty foods, not just reef roids. Use the roids to get the feeder tentacles to come out then load it up with mysis/LRS reef frenzy/krill.

Get your nutrients to 10-25 nitrate, 0.02-0.1ppm phosphate.