New coral need help: unknown species unwell

[midnightmarou]

 

[midnightmarou]

Also PH is 8, all parameters good we have just tested water. Mag & Cal good, salinity a bit low at 21 so we are building that up
Any guidance welcome!
the fish aquarium sold us the coral but didn’t tell us the species ?!

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

All paramaters good, then why is your coral dying?

Need to know all the parameters to offer advice, tank age, flow in tank, lighting.... A full tank pic will help a lot too....

 

[homer1475]

Thats a dead coral, it's just the remaining tissue has not died out yet. There is no mougth for it to feed so it cannot recover.

 

[Dburr1014]

That is knocking on death's door now.

I agree, if everything is "fine", then why does it look like this.
You just had your parameters tested so post them up.
Also, salinity at 21? I assume 1.021, this alone could kill it if left to long.

I'm also going to assume this is a new tank.
Generally, new tanks are not ready for easy coral until a few months. This does not fall into the easy coral category.

 

[midnightmarou]

Thats a dead coral, it's just the remaining tissue has not died out yet. There is no mougth for it to feed so it cannot recover.

Thank you, it was sold to us pretty much like this, so thats a shame to hear! We have had the tank for 18 months and everything else going well hence the confusion. I think it was clearly on the way out when we purchased

 

[midnightmarou]

That is knocking on death's door now.

I agree, if everything is "fine", then why does it look like this.
You just had your parameters tested so post them up.
Also, salinity at 21? I assume 1.021, this alone could kill it if left to long.

I'm also going to assume this is a new tank.
Generally, new tanks are not ready for easy coral until a few months. This does not fall into the easy coral category.

Thanks so much for your response, we did get the coral only a few weeks ago. We have had the tank 18 months, its a 120 litre tank with 3 fish and some coral (around 60 ranging from Hammers, soft, leather etc) Also 2 sand sifting star fish. Could something have eaten it's mouth?

 

[Dburr1014]

Thanks so much for your response, we did get the coral only a few weeks ago. We have had the tank 18 months, its a 120 litre tank with 3 fish and some coral (around 60 ranging from Hammers, soft, leather etc) Also 2 sand sifting star fish. Could something have eaten it's mouth?

A local fish store sold you this!? I would try to bring it back and not step for in there again.
When buying corral like this, look for puffy, fleshy tissue. It should look like it has color and not all bleached out. If it's a branching type(hammer, frogspawn, torch, ect.) look for flesh traveling down of the head. Such as this pic. If the flesh stops right after the head, move on.