Purple stuff growing on corals
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honestly bro from the pictures it looks like your corals are dead and corraline algae is growing over them. corraline cant grow over a living coral so if youre 100% sure they are alive i dont know what it is. it could also be red slime algae possibly? do you see any patches of it on your sand or rocks anywhere?
in your last picture i noticed you have a bag laying in your tank. if thats another coral i highly suggest you return it. from the picture it looked like a monti cap and considering it looks like you already killed some LPS you are not ready for any SPS corals IMO. you need to look over your tank and see what your parameters are. as well youre tank looks BRAND NEW; DO NOT ADD ANYTHING TO IT, as well what type of lighting are you using?
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No the other pieces of sps are doing fine, that was a Hollywood Stunner chalice which is also doing fine. It is still a newer tank, about 3.5 months. The first coral is dead, it arrived almost dead. That second one still has an eye you just can't see the inside.
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Right now it's 1 hydra fiftytwo, I will have the other 2 hydra's installed next week. There's not a single trace of cyano or anything purple for that matter on any rock or substrate. That's why I'm so puzzled by this. My parameters are listed guy who asked. The tank is 3.5 months old, I don't imagine I'd be growing coralline on JUST 2 frags and nothing else.
Corraline is essentially bacteria so it would make sense for it to grow first on something that is dying. But still I would old off adding more stuff to the tank. You might have good parameters but so does rodi water. Parameters don't mean you have good bacterial count and a healthy enough tank for SPS and such yet
