This guy has been the same for six months or more

[Gordon Cashmore]

This guy has been the same for six months or more He has not grown one bit. I have left him in the same place for a month at a time and moved him up and down in different lights and nothing seems to help it grow any suggestions. It does not take any food only light. Any food I tried to give and it just slides right off

 

[sternicus]

Flow?

 

[Gordon Cashmore]

I’ve moved it around. It’s in a low to medium now. I have things on wave setting. Should it be in low to none? It has n very liked higher flow it retreats so I have tried to move to lower light and lower flow

 

[Flippers4pups]

LPS, frogspawn. What's your water pramameters?

 

[Gordon Cashmore]

Ph 8.0
Kh/alk 8.9/3.19
Trate/trite 0
Mag 1560
Cal 440

 

[Flippers4pups]

With LPS (large polyp stony) corals, then need some N03 , around 5-10ppm and a trace of P04 around .02 for them to be healthy. Med to high flow and around 200 par.

Having only photosynthesis and available nutrients in the water collum to fuel it's growth, which is what they mostly need, you need to increase your nutrients.

 

[Gordon Cashmore]

No3 is a problem whereas I’m also battling algae. If I increase there I increase hair algae that I’m finally seeming to get under control. Can I spot feed him anything?

 

[Fudsey]

Mine likes reefroids. I make a paste out of it and kinda squirt it over the top of it.

 

[Gordon Cashmore]

I never see it eating everything always seems to slough right off of it I thought it had a mouth that it should pull things into

 

[TonyNguyen]

This work for me with these LPS, if you can mount on a stable rock and have decent flow. They well start having baby heads in no time. From the look of your picture it looks like its stuck on the sand bed?

 

[Stigigemla]

You have very high values. I would sink Ca and Mg to 420 and 1350 and maybe kH to 8.0.
And check salinity carefully. Low salinity makes them more senstive against high values. From the color it looks as if it has enough of nitrate and phosphate. By me they loose color when nitrate goes under 1 ppm.