War coral trouble

[Nate G]

I am having some trouble with my war coral. It appears to be bleaching, but I am not sure. When I got it, it was vivid green and orange, but after a few months it looks like it does now.
This is it currently. I just moved it to this spot on the rock until I can determine what to do with it.

This is where it was, and how it looked.

I don't want to give up just yet.

 

[veselym]

what is your lighting? also parameters and is everything stable

If it was bleaching I wouldn't move it higher

 

[Shep]

Yea, if it is bleaching it is getting too much light

 

[Nate G]

Oh I am not moving it higher. I wasn't sure what was causing the bleaching, so that is a temp spot until I can find a good home for it. I have a current LED ramp timer pro. Do I need to place it in the shade?

 

[Shep]

I would try less light and see how it goes

 

[kireek]

To be honest your war coral looks pretty sad.I would highly recommend checking your water parameters.How are the other corals in the aquarium doing?

 

[bfam4t6]

To be honest your war coral looks pretty sad.I would highly recommend checking your water parameters.How are the other corals in the aquarium doing?

I was going to say that it pretty much looks dead, unfortunately. And honestly, I'd doesn't look like bleaching to me. It looks like it just got stung to death. Did you have between that torch and that favia when it turned for the worse? If so, I'd say it was chemical warfare.

 

[Tanked_Life]

I was going to say that it pretty much looks dead, unfortunately. And honestly, I'd doesn't look like bleaching to me. It looks like it just got stung to death. Did you have between that torch and that favia when it turned for the worse? If so, I'd say it was chemical warfare.

This is not the reason, at that distance a torch and a hammer will not be able to sting the war coral (although some species of torch and hammer could not these particular ones)

Your war coral is dead to be blatantly honest. The same thing happened to me with my first war coral and trust me lessons are learned the hard way in this hobby. The cause here is too much light. LED lights penetrate deep in the tank and finding the sweet spot for favia/favites and most brains is brain wracking and tough ( I would know IM a high end favia/favites collector under LED). If in this case you still see flesh on the war coral that is alive, take that puppy and move it into a shady spot preferably on the outskirts of the LED lighting range.

Hope this helps and keep us posted

Goodluck,

Elio

 

[Nate G]

I think bfam brings up a great point. The torch was able to reach the war. When I first put them in they weren't even close, but that torch took off. Unfortunately, I was gone on a business trip when I learned what had happened. There is still a little color on it and I have moved it where I think it won't get as much light. I am going to monitor it for a bit longer and if it doesn't get any better I will have to call it.

 

[Nate G]

To be honest your war coral looks pretty sad.I would highly recommend checking your water parameters.How are the other corals in the aquarium doing?

Everyone else is thriving! I have been having a little trouble with the nitrates. I am sitting at 60ppm. I know that is high, but I can't seem to get it to stay down. I do a 5g water change every week. Clean up poop in the coral daily. So far I have not had a algae breakout, but I am trying to get the levels down. Everything else is great. SG 1.025, Cal 460, nitrite 0, ammonia 0, Kh 8-9.

Water changes are being done in the substrate and was pulling a lot of junk out, but now the substrate looks great and isn't producing a lot of waste when I change.

 

[WetWhistle]

What are you using for top up water? RODI? Your tank doesn't look dirty so I would look at all possible sources for the high nitrates.

 

[Nate G]

I buy water right now from LFS. I don't have the means to hook up all the filters required to make my own.

 

[bfam4t6]

I think bfam brings up a great point. The torch was able to reach the war. When I first put them in they weren't even close, but that torch took off. Unfortunately, I was gone on a business trip when I learned what had happened. There is still a little color on it and I have moved it where I think it won't get as much light. I am going to monitor it for a bit longer and if it doesn't get any better I will have to call it.

I hope it pulls through for you!

Don't forget, favias can have sweepers too

 

[Wh00pS32]

I hope it pulls through for you!

Don't forget, favias can have sweepers too

Too right!, this was one of mine last night.

 

[yarddoctor123]

Mine is by far the biggest coral in my tank.. I almost lost it a couple of months ago in a near tank disaster. My refractometer was broken. I could see the white skeleton in detail through sunken flesh before I corrected my super low salinity. It recovered fully. I'll try to take a pic when lights come on.

 

[yarddoctor123]

Too right!, this was one of mine last night.

Just curious, do you carbon dose?

 

[Bryce Peterson]

It's not over 'til it's over. My war coral looked worse than yours for months. It finally took off. It definitely didn't like intense led lighting. It has colored up nicely since moving it up and under the center brace. Now I just need to find a better spot for my green one. I'll try and add before and recent photos.