dying coral

Ca 492, Alk 8.7, No3 2.5, Po4 0.05 I don’t have a Mg test Tank is over a year old and most things are thriving (a couple frags have been banged up due to my lack of coordination and fine motor skills) 90g DT, 20g main sump, 30g refugium I know the calcium is pretty high but it didn’t get...

I recently ran out of test kits and none got shipped but ive been keeping up with water changes and all my corals are doing amazing except my candy cane is it dying?? Im quite new to lps corals. My cbs ruinrd the picture sorry.

I'll preface this by apologizing for the long post, but I'm all out of ideas and my parameters don't tell the story happening in my tank right now, so a lengthy backstory is the only info I have. ICP results are below, but basicly corals started RTN/STN slowly wasting away along with red cyano...

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask you guys for some help with some orange zoas I have. I’ve had these guys for quite a few months ago and they seemed to be doing fine. They grew quite fast as when I bought them I only had 2 heads now I almost have 10. For the last few days for some reason...

Hello everybody, So like the tittle says, I have a small lps garage that has been recently dying. I have in the tank more LPS Fraga which seem to be doing all right but for some reason this frag just won’t stop shrinking. My parameters are the following: Phosphate: 0.9 Nitrate: more 75 due...

Hi, I have had these corals for a year & am now losing heads very quickly. They’re disintegrating into slime & washing away. A week back, I lost one head & the nitrates were well above 40 by my testing kit, but tap water (well) was reading a yellow that corresponds with 20. I’ve been doing water...

Hello all, I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction to save a new Goniopora frag I got about 6 days ago. On the first couple of days the polyps were extending and it seemed happy. Now it's completely withdrawn and polyps look like they are peeling off! The flesh looks super...

Hello reefing community, I’m facing an issue where I’m losing my brain corals one by one. In the beginning, I had about 25 brain corals thriving in my 100-gallon reef tank for the first three months. However, I started noticing tissue loss, followed by browning and eventually death. So far...

Posting this in the LPS thread because most of the corals are LPS, but there are a few SPS as well. Hi everyone, a while back I had dinos for the second time in my tank, and during that time There was a slow spike in alkalinity which I slowly lowered from 8.9 to 8.1, and a possible salinity...

Hi all, After spending the winter hoarding various euphyllias from flash sales and finally putting them into my display, I noticed BJD today :loudly-crying-face: :loudly-crying-face: :loudly-crying-face: :loudly-crying-face: :loudly-crying-face: Can't lose these corals. I had an...

Hey coral friends. I just got this guy exactly one week ago and had a small section melting on the left side. Fast forward several days and today looks like this. How do I fix it? Please and thank you!!

I bought this sun coral on the 31st from a local petstore. The workers said they've been eating and healthy. They also said they've have been hardy and easy to handle. When I bought the coral it was closed and in a cave with what appeared to be very low flow. I originally placed it in the...

I made a HUGE mistake yesterday when I got my first online order of corals… in the excitement of receiving the shipment, I forgot to temp acclimate and went straight to dipping before putting into the tank… I realized my mistake immediately after but i had already dumped the water the frags...

I just bought an acan frag last weekend. It was from what appeared to be a healthy colony. The LFS cut two heads off for me to buy. I have no idea why it's dying. I have a 16-gallon full of healthy and growing coral. I initially had it on the sand bed in the middle, but just moved it onto this...

Hi all, new to the hobby here. tank is about 2 months old (after cycling), I've had this mushroom for about a month. It's usually big and puffy but today it's small and angry and has this odd dark spot on it. It looks as if the flesh is receding there or something. Did a 25% water change today...

hello coral friends, A few days ago maybe 5 tops my yellow tip torch coral started closing. I thought okay maybe its splitting so left it be. Wasn't until 2 days ago when I realized I have a problem. Pics and video show the torch 10 days ago, 2 days ago, today, healthy zoas shown taken today...

If you go to this (https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/candy-cane-coral-splitting-or-dying.962664/) you can see where the problem started, then I made it worse. My candy cane started off dying the Par was way to high. I moved it to a shaded area but for some reason one night I added calcium to my...

So recently (29th of Jan 2023) I managed to get my hands on a dragon soul torch head (which was splitting). The torch coral was very healthy in the reef tank of the original owner. From the second it was placed in my reef tank the torch coral never fully extended. First call of blame was...

I come from freshwater fishkeeping. And always wanted to give coral reef tanks a try. I read guides and watch videos on how to set up a reef tank. Every coral purchased with research done before hand for best results. I started with corals that are listed as easy to keep. Mainly soft corals. For...

Hello, I recently got 4 corals (GSP, Xenia, Zoa, and Micromussa) in the mail (shipped out yesterday). They were already warm, but we put the bag in the tank to match temps. Afterwards we dipped them then glued them into the tank. The Zoa opened up after 30 mins and the Micromussa looks fine...

My shipment from a recent live sale has been MIA about 24 hrs and UPS can't or won't provide an update. Seller is working hard to resolve, no issue with them, issue is with UPS....they are presently stuck in an area experiencing a heat wave. How long can they make it before turning to soup...

Hey there i got a trumpet coral today, before i bought it i tested my water and everything checked out but an hour after it being in my tank it shrunk a lot and white slime started coming out 8hrs later it looks like they are starting to erode or something as brown parts are coming on the fleshy...

Yesterday I recieved a shipment of corals that all looked amazing. This morning I got up to see my brand new Lobo coral looks to be dying. I don't know what's wrong or how to help it. Please help!

HI reefers. Hope all well. Off late i had been losing my torch coral heads one after another. Despite fragging the frag head could not survive the slow decay and finally Brown jelly was Visible just before its last breath. I searched various Forum and also read how Antibiotics can...

Help! I’m not sure if this lobo is dying or if this is normal. It still has decent color under blues but the inside/mouth looks worse. Is this normal? It’s been like this for two days now. All other coral are fine. A hammer got placed next to it without thinking and it got moved. If it’s stung...