Hollywood stunner chalice brown/purple

[Esquire805]

Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Just do couple water changes to bring it down. When you start adding chemicals to correct imbalances it has the potential to cause more issues than it corrects. #reefsquad any other suggestions.

I been doing changes it was off the charts by me overdosing to correct ph

 

[saltyhog]

So I have an lights ramping dkh at 17 been bringing it down mag 1300 calcium 500 nitrate 10ppm phosphate 5 temp 77. The coral is by another Hollywood and a fun fun is 3 inches away. Location in bottom of tank

Your phosphate isn't really 5 is it?! If it's 0.5 that could well be the problem. How are you measuring it?

Never dose alkalinity to change pH. The affect on pH is very short lived (with soda ash anyway) and you end up with the same pH and a very high alkalinity just as you have. Just water changes every few days with regular salt mix to slowly lower alkalinity.

 

[Esquire805]

Your phosphate isn't really 5 is it?! If it's 0.5 that could well be the problem. How are you measuring it?

Never dose alkalinity to change pH. The affect on pH is very short lived (with soda ash anyway) and you end up with the same pH and a very high alkalinity just as you have. Just water changes every few days with regular salt mix to slowly lower alkalinity.

It was baking soda I mixed with Hanna checker

 

[saltyhog]

It was baking soda I mixed with Hanna checker

Which Hanna checker for the phosphate? The ULR reads in PPB and 5 there would be fine (about 0.02). If it's the low range checker it reads in PPM and 5 would translate to a phosphate of 2.5 which could well be a part of the problem.

 

[Esquire805]

Which Hanna checker for the phosphate? The ULR reads in PPB and 5 there would be fine (about 0.02). If it's the low range checker it reads in PPM and 5 would translate to a phosphate of 2.5 which could well be a part of the problem.

It's a url

 

[saltyhog]

It's a url

Great! I bet if you let your alkalinity slowly come down the Stunner will color up. It is a very fast growing hardy coral.

Here's 9 months growth in mine.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Great! I bet if you let your alkalinity slowly come down the Stunner will color up. It is a very fast growing hardy coral.

Here's 9 months growth in mine.

Yup, they’ll get outa hand quick. Lol. My old stunner.

 

[Esquire805]

Great! I bet if you let your alkalinity slowly come down the Stunner will color up. It is a very fast growing hardy coral.

Here's 9 months growth in mine.

Yeah that's nice

 

[Esquire805]

Yup, they’ll get outa hand quick. Lol. My old stunner.

High light low light

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

High light low light

Top of tank, near water line,
Dual kessil160we and 4x ati blue plus t5 at the time when had that tank.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

The white edge to the left is growth, not die off. Grew like a weeeeed.

 

[Esquire805]

Top of tank, near water line,
Dual kessil160we and 4x ati blue plus t5 at the time when had that tank.

So these thing need high light
Does the brown mean it's not getting enough light

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

I’d get the dkh down, then slowly move up to get adjusted to light. They’ll grow anywhere in my experience. The Frags I cut and set in the sand bed would do just as well as the mother near the top.

 

[Esquire805]

I’d get the dkh down, then slowly move up to get adjusted to light. They’ll grow anywhere in my experience. The Frags I cut and set in the sand bed would do just as well as the mother near the top.

Yes this dkh has killed a lot of corals

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Yes this dkh has killed a lot of corals

Best wishes on a speedy recovery though. It’ll all work out!

 

[Sarah24!]

Hello,

The Hollywood stunner is fine where you have it. I don’t suggest you move it. It will grow like a weed regardless where you place it. The lights you have will absolutely grow that coral and quickly. Your water parameters are what’s causing this. The only thing you need to do, as others have explained is slow water changes. If you do this fast you will crash your tank, and kill all your coral. Your alk should range between 8-10 low and max. The calcium should be at 440 maybe plus or minus 10 max. So 430-450 on your calcium. This will not be a fast change, it won’t happen over night as far as the Hollywood stunner correcting its color. But it will get better with very slow consistent water changes. Your ph is way to high for my liking, but that’s just me. You do not want anything at zero but the dangerous three should be around 2ppm.

I suggest you take your muriatic acid and throw it away. My tank is only 7 months and has never swung that much, or have I never needed to dose anything other than alk and calcium. When was the last time you did a water change, what size is tour tank? Like others have shared dosing this tank is a very dangerous and horrible idea.

We are all here to help you, and what your tank to thrive, but please trust us also. @Crabs Mcjones he knows what he is doing and extremely knowledgeable in this area. I have an amazing tank and would trust anything he would suggest to me. Also @ReeferMaddness843 is also very knowledgeable and they can help you get back on track.

 

[Esquire805]

Hello,

The Hollywood stunner is fine where you have it. I don’t suggest you move it. It will grow like a weed regardless where you place it. The lights you have will absolutely grow that coral and quickly. Your water parameters are what’s causing this. The only thing you need to do, as others have explained is slow water changes. If you do this fast you will crash your tank, and kill all your coral. Your alk should range between 8-10 low and max. The calcium should be at 440 maybe plus or minus 10 max. So 430-450 on your calcium. This will not be a fast change, it won’t happen over night as far as the Hollywood stunner correcting its color. But it will get better with very slow consistent water changes. Your ph is way to high for my liking, but that’s just me. You do not want anything at zero but the dangerous three should be around 2ppm.

I suggest you take your muriatic acid and throw it away. My tank is only 7 months and has never swung that much, or have I never needed to dose anything other than alk and calcium. When was the last time you did a water change, what size is tour tank? Like others have shared dosing this tank is a very dangerous and horrible idea.

We are all here to help you, and what your tank to thrive, but please trust us also. @Crabs Mcjones he knows what he is doing and extremely knowledgeable in this area. I have an amazing tank and would trust anything he would suggest to me. Also @ReeferMaddness843 is also very knowledgeable and they can help you get back on track.

Thanks for all the help it was baking soda that did it I messes up I have 60 gallons total

 

[Sarah24!]

Hello,

You have a pretty small tank, so any change will be extreme compared to my 240 or even a 125. Knowing this, leave the baking soda where it belongs the fridge. You do not have the water capacity to make a mistake. I suggest 10% water changes every week, like clock work. Larger tanks can go longer, but your size, weekly no exceptions. I dose my tank every tues, thurs, and Saturday. In respect, I don’t test my own water, my lfs does. After the test is complete then I will dose what I need. My method is yes unorthodoxed, but it works and they have better test kits and do it for free.

For your tank being three years old, it gives me concern that a mature tank needs this kind of dosing. My tank is new (I had one before it and just upgraded it), (7 months) where it’s still in that stage of it could swing and have a bloom etc. yet I have only ever dosed alk and calcium. I try to keep at 9 and within two days if I don’t dose I will be at mid 7. The same is with calcium I stay steady between 440-450. If I don’t dose I’m down to 330 in two days. Sometimes I have to skip calcium, I have been as high as 500, but I didn’t dose it until I was back in the safe zone. But I also test three times a week, and I dose the same amount every time.

You mentioned that the stunner and sps were not well. (If memory serves me right, I may have misread FYI but believe I did), if so this proves your alk swing and other parameters are out of whack.

 

[Esquire805]

Hello,

You have a pretty small tank, so any change will be extreme compared to my 240 or even a 125. Knowing this, leave the baking soda where it belongs the fridge. You do not have the water capacity to make a mistake. I suggest 10% water changes every week, like clock work. Larger tanks can go longer, but your size, weekly no exceptions. I dose my tank every tues, thurs, and Saturday. In respect, I don’t test my own water, my lfs does. After the test is complete then I will dose what I need. My method is yes unorthodoxed, but it works and they have better test kits and do it for free.

For your tank being three years old, it gives me concern that a mature tank needs this kind of dosing. My tank is new (I had one before it and just upgraded it), (7 months) where it’s still in that stage of it could swing and have a bloom etc. yet I have only ever dosed alk and calcium. I try to keep at 9 and within two days if I don’t dose I will be at mid 7. The same is with calcium I stay steady between 440-450. If I don’t dose I’m down to 330 in two days. Sometimes I have to skip calcium, I have been as high as 500, but I didn’t dose it until I was back in the safe zone. But I also test three times a week, and I dose the same amount every time.

You mentioned that the stunner and sps were not well. (If memory serves me right, I may have misread FYI but believe I did), if so this proves your alk swing and other parameters are out of whack.

Yes I'm trying to get things stable I have a ghl doser coming in the mail but I will test for some weeks before I set up to see what I need to add right now nothing

 

[Esquire805]

This is how it looks