Leather help!
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R0L0
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What are your water parameters and how long have you had this coral?My leather coral has been closed up for a couple of days and is now falling over… it was thriving just a week ago and not much has changed.
sfin52
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Do you see a film over it?My leather coral has been closed up for a couple of days and is now falling over… it was thriving just a week ago and not much has changed.
R0L0
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could have been. By the looks of it with no film either im thinking more of a water perimeter problem.
sfin52
So many pedestrians so little time
Very well could why did you pull skimmer off line?
Kan123
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Wasn’t doing anything besides aeration, never got it tuned in and my nutrients were undetectable so wanted to shift towards only biological and refugium based filtration.
My guess is it might be shedding. They are impossible to kill. Mine has been with me like 10 years through every problem imaginable. Can’t kill it.
Kan123
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Im hoping it’s just shedding from your responses. Just did a water test and they seem great to me:
Kh - 9.2 (unchanged since 11/28)
Ca - 400 (dropped 30ppm since 11/28, unlikely cause)
Po4 - undetected (<0.03) (unchanged since 11/28)
No3 <1ppm (unchanged since 11/28)
Kh - 9.2 (unchanged since 11/28)
Ca - 400 (dropped 30ppm since 11/28, unlikely cause)
Po4 - undetected (<0.03) (unchanged since 11/28)
No3 <1ppm (unchanged since 11/28)
sfin52
So many pedestrians so little time
Those last two are of concern. Leather like more nutrients in the water. No3 10-20 and a little higher on p04.
Running zero or just above zero is a great recipe for dinos.
muzikalmatt
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The problem with reading zero nutrients on your test kits is that you don't know if your tank is starved of nutrients or getting juuuust enough to survive. In addition, people have speculated that undetectable nutrients can lead to dinos which are awful to deal with. I would recommend trying to increase your nitrates to at least 3ppm and your phosphates to 0.03-0.05ppm.
I have a very similar green sinularia leather coral and I'm running my tank around 10ppm nitrates and 0.10ppm phosphates and it absolutely loves it.
Kan123
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True, I’ve been trying to feed more and getting more livestock to increase nutrients. Here’s a photo of mine just 3 weeks ago.The problem with reading zero nutrients on your test kits is that you don't know if your tank is starved of nutrients or getting juuuust enough to survive. In addition, people have speculated that undetectable nutrients can lead to dinos which are awful to deal with. I would recommend trying to increase your nitrates to at least 3ppm and your phosphates to 0.03-0.05ppm.
I have a very similar green sinularia leather coral and I'm running my tank around 10ppm nitrates and 0.10ppm phosphates and it absolutely loves it.
muzikalmatt
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Beautiful specimen! I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing mine get that size and larger!True, I’ve been trying to feed more and getting more livestock to increase nutrients. Here’s a photo of mine just 3 weeks ago.
