Looking for others thoughts on what is going on with my frogspawn.

Marcus130571 · Nov 7, 2023

History of the tank is it's been up and running for 4 yrs now. Past 4 days my frogspawn and one of my other hammers has not been inflating or really opening. It's not going through polyp bail out. My hammer in the middle of them is still doing great. My numbers are
Salinity 1.025
Cal 400
Alkalinity 9.3
Mag 1410
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5.4
Phos. 03
Ammonia 0
Ph in the morning is 7.6 and maxes to 8.3 during the day
Temp between 76-79 depending on the day.

From what I see not being harrassed by any fish or inverts.
Sailfin
Blue hippo
Yellow tang
Naso tang
Pj cardinal
Banghi cardinal
Clowns
Yellow Pryamid
Zebra gobies
Trochus snails
Mexican
Nerite
Fighting conchs

Other than that nothing has been added or changed and flow has been the same for yrs

Spare time · Nov 8, 2023

Do you feed the corals?

Pistondog · Nov 8, 2023

Filtration and dosing regime, water changes.
Gac or carbon dosing?

ryanjohn1 · Nov 8, 2023

Pic under white light would help

Marcus130571 · Nov 8, 2023

No I don't feed any of my corals nor do I dose or carbon anything. Water change is done every two weeks.

Marcus130571 · Nov 8, 2023

No I don't feed any of my corals nor do I dose or carbon anything. Water change is done every two weeks

Pistondog · Nov 8, 2023

Icp test?
Sorry, not much help.

ryanjohn1 · Nov 8, 2023

Looks like it got stung. Are those 2 close together that they may have went to battle

Spare time · Nov 8, 2023

Marcus130571 said:
No I don't feed any of my corals nor do I dose or carbon anything. Water change is done every two weeks.

What nitrate and phosphate test kit do you use?

Beefyreefy · Nov 8, 2023

I would dip the one that’s not dead yet. I recently had a weird euphyllia eating flatworm problem. I lost several before I figured it out. They are pretty big but are easily hidden. When you dip it see if any weird bugs or flatworms come off of it. If it is a pest you can dip them once a week until you kill everything and it’s eggs offZ

Marcus130571 · Nov 9, 2023

I only use hanna checkers for all my numbers and red sea for my calcium test. I've never had to icp test before but I'm getting ready to. I did dip and saw nothing but I'm going to try the Bayer dip today when I get some from the local store. What's weird is I notice those two corals will come out a bit more at might. Though when the lights come on they seem to retract back in.

Spare time · Nov 9, 2023

Marcus130571 said:
I only use hanna checkers for all my numbers and red sea for my calcium test. I've never had to icp test before but I'm getting ready to. I did dip and saw nothing but I'm going to try the Bayer dip today when I get some from the local store. What's weird is I notice those two corals will come out a bit more at might. Though when the lights come on they seem to retract back in.

Which phosphate checker ?