Is My Elegance Coral on the Way Out?

[LiquidSpace]

Hey guys, my Elegance coral has been shut for a couple of days and now has a a fun little string of something that doesn’t look very good.

Salinity: 1.26
Temp 79
Alk: 7.2
pH:
Calcium: 415
Magnesium: 1290
Nitrate: 3.2
Phosphate: 0.03

Any idea what I should expect? Dying? ticked? My alkalinity looks a little low.

Now of note my cleaner shrimp has been dancing all over this guy for the past couple of weeks. When I check after the lights go out he’s almost always perched on it. I’m hoping it’s just stressed.

 

[Lavey29]

Doesn't look happy. Do you direct feed it? LPS corals need nitrates at 10 and phosphate at .05 to .1. Perhaps it is slowly starving

 

[LiquidSpace]

Doesn't look happy. Do you direct feed it? LPS corals need nitrates at 10 and phosphate at .05 to .1. Perhaps it is slowly starving

I do direct feed, usually Mysis Shrimp. I’ll see if I can “dirty” the water up a bit to raise the levels. Thanks.

 

[Tcook]

How long has it been in your tank? What other corals do you have and how are they doing? How old is this tank?

 

[Lavey29]

I do direct feed, usually Mysis Shrimp. I’ll see if I can “dirty” the water up a bit to raise the levels. Thanks.

I had to move mine to a more low light area. It gets like half shade now and low light and flow now but opens big everyday. My nitrates are 16 and phosphate. 07 currently.

 

[LiquidSpace]

Thanks guys. This is the only coral. I started up in January and we’re moving to a new house in a few weeks so I haven’t added anything.

I also have not been doing daily spot feeding so I hope that is part of the issue. For what it’s worth the thing hanging off of it is gone this morning and it was open, just with retracted tentacles.

 

[LiquidSpace]

So here’s what we’re looking at now. Open but retracted tentacles and what looks like slime



The second photo is a couple weeks ago

 

[Tcook]

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[sfin52]

They do close up at night.

I had to move mine to a more low light area. It gets like half shade now and low light and flow now but opens big everyday. My nitrates are 16 and phosphate. 07 currently.

 

[sfin52]

Double post

 

[Lavey29]

They do close up at night.

Yes they do tightly.

 

[sfin52]

So here’s what we’re looking at now. Open but retracted tentacles and what looks like slime



The second photo is a couple weeks ago

Mine eats a lot. It sits in a flow where it gets feed every other day.

 

[Lavey29]

So here’s what we’re looking at now. Open but retracted tentacles and what looks like slime



The second photo is a couple weeks ago

I would put it in a more shaded area. Mine was doing similar till I put it in the shade now it's the size of a football.