help jedi mind trick undata encrusting monti fadding away

[maxone]

What should I do I just bought an encrusting Monti yesterday diped it in coral rx and frag recover since there were flatworms in the system I bought it from and a had to cut him in half since there was a piece of verminted snail that I didn't want to deal with it also had algae so I cut it down the middle with diamond edge bit with Dremel then dipped in Brightwell frag recover and one piece is quickly fading is it too much light I have an ai prime on acclimation mode set to 55 % reduction and have an innovative marine wave link medium-sized set to the lowest setting. My parameters are
pH 8.3
salinity 1.026
temp79
alk 9
calium415
magnesium 1200
phosphate 0.05ppm
nitrate5-10

 

[KrisReef]

I hope none of them snuck in.

 

[maxone]

I dont think any have sure would be a disaster

 

[Dcloser12]

Sounds like the coral was already stresses. The algae is a nitrate issue meaning the coral already was struggling, you carved on it and dipped it? The run off from sawing down the middle could be enough to make it retract and unable to recover. It happened to a bird nest once my buddy fragged that way.

 

[maxone]

So what can I do to take off the run off

 

[Dcloser12]

I don't know. When you cut a thinner coral long ways there is not alot of surface area left un bothered by the process. It is getting flooded with skeletol dust and milky water. This can irritate the coral and for an already stressed coral, that's not good. Maybe it went fine and the coral needs to acclimate. It went from a high nutrient tank to a low. That is a sudden shock of parameters as well. Seems to be alot of things working against you. You need time to see what the coral is going to do

 

[maxone]

ok so basically just don't do anything and monitor it

 

[Dcloser12]

ok so basically just don't do anything and monitor it

Yes. Often we forget these animals take months to grow and weeks to settle in. To much to fast is worse than doing nothing. Set the flow,the lights and just let the coral do its best to heal