Weird behaviour Hammer Coral

[jcosta98]

Hi guys,

Got a Hammer Coral acting weird since 2 weeks ago, started not extending as much on one of his sides.. the other parts are good , this one looks retracted like this.. what could this be? I have a Torch in the same system, doing great !

dKH: 11.5dKH
Ca: 450ppm
Mg: 1410ppm
NO3: 0.1ppm
PO4: 0.024ppm


Thanks!

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Lps like some food in the water and your nitrates are rediculasly low....

 

[jcosta98]

It is hard on my reef to raise the nitrates, although I target/broadcast feed every coral 2 twice a week.

 

[Nick Steele]

Have you thought about dosing nitrates? Some systems need it. I’ve recently started dosing phos and nitrate in my system and corals are looking much better.

 

[MERKEY]

I hope im wrong but it looks like the skin is already gone on the skeleton. The head could bail soon if it receds further.

Agreed nutrients are low but they are not 0 so thats good.

Have parameters swung recently?

 

[jcosta98]

Yesterday it started peeling some of the skin off of that teeth area..

I had an Alk swing like 12 days ago, where it dropped by around 1/1.5 dKH , that could possibly cause this issue.

All my Acroporas and Montiporas recovered fine, even got a Torch who literally didn't even bother with that.
Started Iodine dipping yesterday, as I currently got perfect and stable water params every since I had that Alk swing. Could this be some kind of bacteria? My torch shows no signs of any of this.

 

[jcosta98]

Have you thought about dosing nitrates? Some systems need it. I’ve recently started dosing phos and nitrate in my system and corals are looking much better.

Yes I already thought of this, I want to bring my nitrates to 2ppm since I keep high Alk. I've been starting to feed my fish twice a day, Pellets and Frozen Mysis to try bring the values up, still low but I probably need to wait more time

Thanks!

 

[jcosta98]

I think my refugium is being very effective , so hard to raise the nitrates even to 1ppm.

Meanwhile, I dipped the coral 3 days in a row, waiting for the results now (Not looking worse)

 

[Beck]

I had a issue with zero NO3 and PO4. I started dosing it using Loudwolf products and "the planted tank calculator" now it's right where I want it.