Sunken coral?

[ReefReadyYouTube]

My dragon soul is looking very different today. It’s sunken in and loosing some color. I got it like a month ago. I don’t know if it’s a light issue or what. LFS had it under T5s at the bottom. It’s under my LEDs (Steve’s LEDs) at 61%blues 10%whites. Irk what’s going on with it.
Phosphate .1-.2ppm
Alk-9.3
Cal-480ppm
PH-8.2
Nitrate- basically 0
Nitrite-0
Ammonia -0
Salinity -1.025
What could be going on??

 

[NanoDJS]

you should have a 1:16 ratio of phosphates to nitrates aka redfield ratio , your starving your coral. Also favias are not super light intensive , I re gened some dead stung ones with a 17w fluval aquasky light 12" tank @ full 14k white

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

you should have a 1:16 ratio of phosphates to nitrates , your starving your coral. Also favias are not super light intensive , I re gened some dead stung ones with a 17w fluval aquasky light 12" tank @ full 14k white

Can you go into more detail about the 1:16 ratio. Also my lights aren’t that high. They recommend 60-70% for lps and 65-80% sps

 

[NanoDJS]

When you have high light and flow , with that high a dkh , you need to feed those badbois, grab some redsea A/B reef energy and some reef roids and a syringe start feeding like once a week the corals , and everyday the AB

 

[NanoDJS]

Can you go into more detail about the 1:16 ratio. Also my lights aren’t that high. They recommend 60-70% for lps and 65-80% sps

Not sure what you have or not but they seem DIY ( so I asume 3w cree or osrams , bridgelux ect. with reg reflector caps . Whats the depth of tank and height of water ?

 

[NanoDJS]

I also see a baby in that pic. If it is budding it will shrink up and do weird ish just for no reason. where the new bud will be.

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

Not sure what you have or not but they seem DIY ( so I asume 3w cree or osrams , bridgelux ect. with reg reflector caps . Whats the depth of tank and height of water ?

It’s a 32 gallon Biocube and I can get you a link the the light.

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

Not sure what you have or not but they seem DIY ( so I asume 3w cree or osrams , bridgelux ect. with reg reflector caps . Whats the depth of tank and height of water ?

Biocube 32 LED Turbo Upgrade!

www.stevesleds.com

 

[NanoDJS]

yeah it says puts out way more par than you need and will and can kill corals. so I would go slow . like 15k 50% intensity and raise it slowly .Dont fall into this blue light only thing , try 15k -20k for your main growing photoperiod at least 4- 8 hours then the rest go really blue like that.

 

[ReefReadyYouTube]

yeah it says puts out way more par than you need and will and can kill corals. so I would go slow . like 15k 50% intensity and raise it slowly .Dont fall into this blue light only thing , try 15k -20k for your main growing photoperiod at least 4- 8 hours then the rest go really blue like that.

I dropped it to 53% and am going to see what happens. And the whites are at like 13%

 

[ScottB]

If I had those numbers, I would be dosing nitrates for sure. Neonitrate is a decent premix. Loudwolf Sodium nitrate solution is cheaper way to go.

Just FYI, unless you experience fish death, you can put away the Nitrite and ammonia test kits. (There, I just gave you back 10 minutes a week of your life.)