Still salvageable? Green Slimer

[Nick Steele]

So this green slimer has slowly been going downhill for the past two months. And curious if there is still a chance of it surviving. I just started dosing coral amino from Brightwell this week as well.

Issue #1
It started when I only had one AI 16 to light my nuvo20 and it was set way to low. I purchased another light and have raised them both. All sps are now in 250-350ish par.

Issue #2
Alk from the beginning of my tank was 11ish. I figured out that I wasn’t mixing my salt and it had settled causing weird numbers. I have since (month or so) starting turning over my salt before mixing and NSW is 8.1 alk and am slowly working on lowering it (currently at 9.7).

Issue #3
I never really worried about nutrients as I thought I would be good with my 2x weekly dosing of reefroids (heard it has an abundance of nitrate and phosphate). But come to find out I had 0 phos and nitrate. I started dosing reefroids daily and that raised my phos to .02 - .05 and nitrates to 1ppm.

I have a birdsnest that’s doing okay and a monti spongodes that is starting to regain its color from previous issues.


Tank parameters
Alk 9.7
Calc 480
Mag 1350
pH 8.1
Nitrate 1 (yesterday’s test)
Phos .02 (yesterday’s test)
2 AI 16hds
2 Jebao sow4

Any hope for this frag to recover?

Yes there is slight algae on sand bed and the hermits and clowns love to pick at it.

 

[fishguy242]

yes ,slow and steady watch them nutients ,but dont chase,good flow across ,should be fine

 

[Nick Steele]

yes ,slow and steady watch them nutients ,but dont chase,good flow across ,should be fine

Thanks!

Yeah nutrients are on the watch list. Nitrate every other day and phosphate once a week now. Seems to be keeping right around the numbers I posted unless I stop doing reefroids daily and then they will drop to 0 in about two days. I’m assuming they will creep up sometime once rocks etc absorb some more i’m thinking. Only filtration is rock in tank/AIO area and filter floss.

 

[willpower]

IMO probably will not recover, but other members here , and I would gladly give you a frag of stag/slimer. I literally have to chip it back from killing corals around it because it is so aggressive. I think it may be that the frag was too small and went through too much.

 

[92Miata]

Still has polyps (and they're out!) which is a great sign - but it has a hard road ahead.


The one comment I'd make is that falling in the sand is brutal on acros in my experience - so I'd want it better secured than it currently is.

 

[Nick Steele]

Still has polyps (and they're out!) which is a great sign - but it has a hard road ahead.


The one comment I'd make is that falling in the sand is brutal on acros in my experience - so I'd want it better secured than it currently is.

Thanks! Yeah polyps are out but not as much as before. I tried moving it to see if flow was part of the issue and I don’t believe it was so I have already remounted it onto my rock work. I am trying my best to lowering alk and keep nutrients up and hopefully it will recover.