help wellso/trachy

[tcarter1936]

I have a 180 dt mixed reef ,with blastos,frogspawn,chalice,acans,hammer,and all is well except for my trachyphyllia/wellso brain,it shrinks all day,sometimes inflates at night,I've tried moving to shade ,out in open ,it stays on sand bed and no signs of receding ,I recently switched from t fives to led and read 100 par at sand bed,.params are: nitrates.0
Phosphate. 0.06
Nitrite .0
Ammonia. 0
Calc.480
Dkh.10
Mag.1580
I dose two part oceans blend and level have never been more stable also my rodi is checked every time I use it and reads 0.
Any advice would be appreciated I hate losing any piece and this one is my favorite, also I use ato and my salinity is always at 1.025 it tops off 2.5 gallons per day

 

[Tab28]

100 on sand bed seems low but not sure. Someone will chime in on that.

I have had issues with trachy same thing. I moved mine under a overhang with more shade. It perked and puffed up after a few days. Slowly moved it to higher light. One week at a time. Trachy is med to high light. But many LFS keep them in very low light with all blue accent. It may need to re-adjust. You did not list PH.

 

[tcarter1936]

Sorry ph is 8.0 in morning before lights

 

[suvio blue]

Do you have any bangia cardinals?? I lost 2 trachys only find my other 2 were headed down the same path til I caught my cardinal nipping at them after lights out, removed the cardinal now all is good!