Help diagnose my acros

[Acroporaaddict]

I have some weird stuff going on in my tank. First of all, I have dipped my Corals weekly for about a month in bayer to check for pests. Also, I turkey baste them daily. Haven't seen any Aefw or other bugs. This leads me to believe it is a chemistry problem

My parameters:
8dkh
420ppm ca
1300ppm MG
400ppm k
8ppm no3
.055ppm po4
Temp 80
Ph average 8.2
Salinity 1.025

My problem is some acros look great, some look pale, some look brown and some look like the skin is rough.

Red Dragon = pale pink
Walt disney = grey
Red planet= dark brown, looks rough, starting to RTN
SSC, Garf, Slimer, granulosa= all look great

I don't understand how my acros can all look different. If they all looked the same, it would be easy to diagnose. Anyone have suggestions?

 

[Acroporaaddict]

 

[hinovak]

I would say they are stressed from the weekly dipping and turkey basting. Give them a month to recover from that, and they should start recovering

 

[hinovak]

Anytime you dip, or heavily baste an acro, they will be somewhat stressed, and not show the colors you are trying to achieve

 

[dodgerblew]

I've never dipped my acros once a week and some acros don't do well being dipped. I wonder if that can be pretty stressful. I've had frags look great in bag after opening shipping container, temp and drip acclimate then dip and when added to tank they're bleached out and some dead within 24 hrs.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Lights? Fish picking ? Old bulbs with t5 or hot spots with led? stressed acros sometimes go downhill no matter if you have perfect parameters. Do you remember if you had any problems with the tank a while back? Like alk spike or po4 spike,

 

[Bps619]

Maybe water source? I had a membrane go bad and my acros didn't like that.

 

[A.G]

Definitly bayer
Am going thro the exact same thing after one month dip
They need 1 month to recover. Some sps can handle bayer ... other not to much

 

[Acroporaaddict]

I didn't start the bayer dipping until I ruled everything else out. I feel my parameters are decent, po4 may be a little high. I never noticed and stray voltage when I was working in the tank so I assumed it was pests. I started by turkey basting to see if any large pests would come off. When I didn't notice anything I started dipping. Lighting was a ATI 8x39w sunpower with 2 sbreeflights supplemental bars. All bulbs were 4 months old. I switched to a halide/ t5 fixture this week to see if lighting was the problem.

Fish:
2 clowns
1 mimic tang
7 chromis
1 firefish
1 sapphire damsel
1 royal gramma
1 Leopard wrasse

I don't think I have any fish that would pick on my acros

I have more than enough flow 2 gyre 130s and a 2000gph return

I'm completely lost on what's going on.

Probably going to send away for a triton test

 

[Salty1962]

You may want to hold off on dipping anymore especially if you haven't see any pests. Corals need time to recover from dipping, even though Bayer is "Less" stressful, it still stresses your corals, + anytime their moved or your lighting changes they take time to acclimate. You can also bump your Mg up to @1500 and see if that helps any.