Millie losing color and less PE

[Matt Bravo]

What’s the lighting? Par?

Radion xr15 and 220-40 ish

 

[Dburr1014]

You just never know...
I never takem out until they give up the ghost.

 

[Matt Bravo]

Here’s the update I was talking about

Also I just got a diffuser, if you have one can you tell me your experience with it so far? What you like and what you don’t like?

 

[Hurricane Aquatics]

Your nutrients are low and your Acros are slowly starving. I would increase your Magnesium as well to around 1500. I would focus on adding some actual coral food to your water column and by feeding your fish some frozen which will also feed the Acros if it's something like Rods foods.

 

[Matt Bravo]

Your nutrients are low and your Acros are slowly starving. I would increase your Magnesium as well to around 1500. I would focus on adding some actual coral food to your water column and by feeding your fish some frozen which will also feed the Acros if it's something like Rods foods.

I appreciate the advice, I think the original issue was not doing water changes. Once I got back on track everything started to improve.

The Millie almost died on me but I am slowly bringing it back on a daily basis

 

[Hurricane Aquatics]

I appreciate the advice, I think the original issue was not doing water changes. Once I got back on track everything started to improve.

The Millie almost died on me but I am slowly bringing it back on a daily basis

Ah, I didn't know that and always good to ask, but I usually think it's a given when you keep SPS. I can tell you if you'll do a weekly water change with a good salt, you won't need to dose Alk or Cal and rarely Mag.

People get in trouble by dosing and controlling parameters too closely right off. With water changes, in a smaller tank, none of its needed for a long time.

Best of luck

 

[Matt Bravo]

Good evening to all, this is an appreciation post for everyone who took the time to help and give support. As you can see the Millie has fully encrusted over the frag plug (and looks to start branching soon too) and has really nice coloration too.

I hope someone who needs some motivation can see this, coral loses are rough and sometimes we have no clue as to why stuff happens. But it’s the small victories we have to cherish and always have some hope that they will bounce back

Never give up on these little guys

 

[Hurricane Aquatics]

Good evening to all, this is an appreciation post for everyone who took the time to help and give support. As you can see the Millie has fully encrusted over the frag plug (and looks to start branching soon too) and has really nice coloration too.

I hope someone who needs some motivation can see this, coral loses are rough and sometimes we have no clue as to why stuff happens. But it’s the small victories we have to cherish and always have some hope that they will bounce back

Never give up on these little guys

What actions did you take to correct it?

 

[Dburr1014]

Good evening to all, this is an appreciation post for everyone who took the time to help and give support. As you can see the Millie has fully encrusted over the frag plug (and looks to start branching soon too) and has really nice coloration too.

I hope someone who needs some motivation can see this, coral loses are rough and sometimes we have no clue as to why stuff happens. But it’s the small victories we have to cherish and always have some hope that they will bounce back

Never give up on these little guys

Like I said, sometimes you never know.
Congrats OP!

 

[Matt Bravo]

What actions did you take to correct it?

I was testing a lot more than I used to, focused mainly on alk and realized it was dropping on the daily (consumed about .1 daily) so I began dosing small amounts.

I also picked up acropower and noticed an extreme improvement on coloration in all my acros. Everything has really nice colors on them

Overall became more cautious and tried to keep everything stable and scheduled, weekly water changes, test and studied the tanks behavior overall

 

[tedfisher496]

Good evening to all, this is an appreciation post for everyone who took the time to help and give support. As you can see the Millie has fully encrusted over the frag plug (and looks to start branching soon too) and has really nice coloration too.

I hope someone who needs some motivation can see this, coral loses are rough and sometimes we have no clue as to why stuff happens. But it’s the small victories we have to cherish and always have some hope that they will bounce back

Never give up on these little guys

We have to take ever small victory we can get, especially when keeping Acro. Ive kept acro that i can not get PE at all, but the owner had PE at the max with 80 PPM No3.

 

[Hurricane Aquatics]

I was testing a lot more than I used to, focused mainly on alk and realized it was dropping on the daily (consumed about .1 daily) so I began dosing small amounts.

I also picked up acropower and noticed an extreme improvement on coloration in all my acros. Everything has really nice colors on them

Overall became more cautious and tried to keep everything stable and scheduled, weekly water changes, test and studied the tanks behavior overall

Late reply, but glad to hear it. Go easy on the Alk until you have quite a few corals and colonies. Yes, Acropower works really well in moderation. I dose 25ml of Acropower a week to my tank.

Nice job!