Stylocoeniella is dying!

[Marc2952]

I bought a burning man stylocoeniella from legendary corals a week ago and have been having in on acclimation mode ( have a kessil a360x ) but isnt looking to good. My parameters are
Alk: 9.3
Cal:460
Mag: 1380
Ph 8.0
Ni: >1
Po:0 (maybe this is why but i cant keep it above 0)

 

[Mical]

Put it low in your tank and give it more light. Kessils' acclimation mode is an assumption. Give it some light and time in the lower level of your tank.

 

[Marc2952]

Put it low in your tank and give it more light. Kessils' acclimation mode is an assumption. Give it some light and time in the lower level of your tank.

So put it in the sand somewhere with shadow?

 

[Daddy-o]

Mine like shady/low light areas.
Cheers! Mark

 

[Mical]

So put it in the sand somewhere with shadow?

Not necessarily shadowed but lower in tank with natural light & let it get naturally acclimated to your lights, not the Kessil blue acclimation. Don't get me wrong I'm a big Kessil fan, but their acclimation mode is a generalization or an average for consumers not designed for SPS and fine tuning.

 

[Marc2952]

Not necessarily shadowed but lower in tank with natural light & let it get naturally acclimated to your lights, not the Kessil blue acclimation. Don't get me wrong I'm a big Kessil fan, but their acclimation mode is a generalization or an average for consumers not designed for SPS and fine tuning.

Awesome thanks for the imput also i just got a refractometer calibration liquid from BRS and found out that my ATO dropped my salinity to 1.022!l which is very low for corals like SPS.

 

[Mical]

Yea 1.022 would make them very unhappy... Luckily you caught that and can bring your Stylocoeniella back to life

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I gave mine too much light and it receded badly. Found a better spot and it fully recovered