Problem with my wellsophyllia

[Bob Escher]

I have had this coral for a little more than two weeks. And I've been feeding it with Artic pods twice a week
My water parameters are via Red Sea test kits
SALINITY: 1.026
Temp: 77.7
PH: 8.2
KDH:10.8
AKALINITY: 12
AMMONIA:0
NITRITE: 0.00
NITRATE: 2
CALCIUM: 400
MAGNESIUM: 1280
PHOSPHATE: 1.0

It sits twenty inches below my light with a medium water flow

I looked at the tank last night and saw some slime on the side of it and I thought it had been too close to my other bowerback so I moved it and blew the slime off with water.

This morning it looks like this
So what's is wrong? I don't think it has too much light
Thanks everyone

 

[cloak]

What color was the slime? You might want to look into Brown Jelly Disease/Syndrome just in case. Once a coral is damaged this can set in pretty quick and cause a coral to decline like pictured above.

 

[Bob Escher]

White, it was covering where it's white now and I don't think I noticed it last night

 

[Bob Escher]

So should I still be looking at brown jelly? And redip it

 

[ahiggins]

IME your alk is way too high.....
Ive only seen success with high alk with LNS and even that was touchy.
You dont have to lower it to 8, you can take it down to 9-9.5. I saw massive improvements to all my coral when I lowered from 11 to 9.5 (and my nitrates stay around 5)
The phosphates are high, do you know why?

 

[Bob Escher]

Overfeeding I was feeding huge once a day, have cut way down now
How can I lower alk
I use Red Sea Coral pro and it comes at 11.3 to 12

 

[ahiggins]

Overfeeding I was feeding huge once a day, have cut way down now
How can I lower alk
I use Red Sea Coral pro and it comes at 11.3 to 12

use red sea regular salt (thats what I did as well except I failed to realize how high it was until it bleached a new set of corals then I switched)
if your coral use more alk/cal than what you can replenish from water changes (unlikely unless you have a lot of sps/lps colonies) then you can dose. but seeing as its super high right now, I doubt you will.
get a bucket of the red sea regular and do 5% water changes every other day until its down to like 10.5 then you can resume regular interval WC. I love the regular red sea. mixes fast and no residue.

 

[Bob Escher]

I'll do that I generally do ten gallons a week on my 65 gallons of water sometimes 15
But I'll change to the regular Red Sea and try that thanks
By the way it looks like it's recovering I had it next to a bowerback and I wonder if they touched as well
Yes I did move him

 

[ahiggins]

I'll do that I generally do ten gallons a week on my 65 gallons of water sometimes 15
But I'll change to the regular Red Sea and try that thanks
By the way it looks like it's recovering I had it next to a bowerback and I wonder if they touched as well
Yes I did move him

it totally could have been that as well, if youre not seeing any adverse reaction in your corals then youre ahead of the game with alk. I didnt notice a difference in the ones that had been in there a while, only the new batches I would put in.

 

[Bob Escher]

Thanks

 

[ahiggins]

no problem

 

[ahiggins]

make sure to keep us updated with how it progresses
Ive never tried on a wellso but I know for acans and scolys that have been so far gone they wouldnt eat...Ive put a thick paste of reef roids on them (with no flow) they will usually eat it. its brought a few back from bleached/sad status

 

[Bob Escher]

Will do thanks