Looking for help with troubled Goniipora
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They can be finicky about flow and light. Move it around some and find a place that it likes.
Photo also looks like you may have some Cyano or detritus on sandbed, which could be building up and irritating it also.
Photo also looks like you may have some Cyano or detritus on sandbed, which could be building up and irritating it also.
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Okay, back on 7/31 I decided to get things back on track. Corals had been doing well albeit with very little growth. I checked water parameters for the first time in over a year. Alk is low @ 5.7 calcium @ 400 and mag is 1275. Ramped up the dosers and by 8/21 im up to alk @ 7.7 calcium 415 and mag is 1380.
On 8/22 I put in 2 new goni and a new alveopora and do a 10% w/c with a brand new box of Tropic Marin Pro Reef and thats when my roughly 3 year old Goni closes up and has been that way ever since. Only other hint of problems was my blasto was not very happy either. Everyone else is doing great including the new additions. I've been feeding reef roids 3x weekly and red sea ab+ for aminos also 3 x weekly and have noticed improvements in overall coral appearance and behaviour.
In all fairness there has been a lot of changes going on in an effort to make overall system improvements so things have not been exactly stabile but shopuldnt be too much of problem either. I have tried everything I can think of to get him back to his old self with no luck. He's been this way for 2 months now and I'm growing concerned about further declining health if I cant figure this out.
On 8/22 I put in 2 new goni and a new alveopora and do a 10% w/c with a brand new box of Tropic Marin Pro Reef and thats when my roughly 3 year old Goni closes up and has been that way ever since. Only other hint of problems was my blasto was not very happy either. Everyone else is doing great including the new additions. I've been feeding reef roids 3x weekly and red sea ab+ for aminos also 3 x weekly and have noticed improvements in overall coral appearance and behaviour.
In all fairness there has been a lot of changes going on in an effort to make overall system improvements so things have not been exactly stabile but shopuldnt be too much of problem either. I have tried everything I can think of to get him back to his old self with no luck. He's been this way for 2 months now and I'm growing concerned about further declining health if I cant figure this out.
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Understood but he is in the same location for the past few years. The picture is mostly decieving. There is some diatoms on the sand I guess from vacuuming and disturbing the sand bed but not nearly as bad as the picture would indicate. I am also running new lights but this issue developed prior to the lighting change
