lps coral issues

So in fairly new still. I have been having my tank for some time now but really just started with corals. So at first this coral did look more fluffy, I guess is the word. Now it just started looking like this. I did move it down out the middle of the tank to the sand bed. 2 hydra prime 16...

Hi. I have been having issues with 1 hammer that looks swollen. My tank is a fluval evo 13.5 (tank is 6 months old now) and up until recently had the stock light. (Ive recently upgraded to an ai prime 16hd 2 months ago). The coral appeared normal for the first 2 days but started to swell. Hes...

Is Pancake too far gone? She’s bleaching and lots of skeleton showing in the last week. Calcium has been low and we are bringing it up. Calcium level 318 - Alkalinity 15.7 PH 7.78 SG 1.024 Pics of other monitors and Neptune system attached- thank you!!!

I’ve been having issues with getting my Acantho coral to open up fully. I fed it a big block of frozen mysis shrimp a month ago and it’s been down hill from that moment on. The feeders no longer come out, I found orange slime which some call a sponge growing on its skeleton. It wasn’t on my...

I am in dire need of help to save the corals I currently have in my care. All my corals seem "***** and dying" lately. I've included pictures of ones that are pretty bad, but this seems to be a common issue throughout the tank. I am hoping someone can provide direction on what could be the issue...

Help!! Okay so basically since Friday I have started to notice all my corals (soft included) were not opening as much. Today all of them are closed and my hammers, bubble and frogspawn started showing there skeleton and I am very worried. I took my hammers and frogspawn to the lfs for the next...

I recently acquired it about 2 weeks ago, about 3-4 days ago started this weird extension. I’m not sure what has caused this since nothing has changed in my tank for 2 weeks. Is this polyp bailout?

I have had this acan for about 2 weeks and it has never puffed up and it is slowly showing more and more skeleton. I feed is mysis and fish pellets every other day. I am checking my parameters now so will post in a minute. I also have it in low light and flow. Not shadows though. My tank is...

Some of my LPS corals (frammer, torch, and goniopora) aren't extending properly, but my Acans are opening up just fine. I did upgrade my skimmer, and the nitrates/phosphate lowered, so I was confused if this was the reason or not. My parameters are : Phosphate : 0 Nitrate : 0 Calcium : 495...

Hello. Got a question about hammer coral as this is my first time having one. I know they prefer moderate light and flow and while I thought I was providing that it seems maybe it was still a little to much. Some of the polyps retracted back into the skeleton. Since then I’ve dialed things in...

When I first got my hammer coral it was fully open and I got deployed and had my wife feed and do my water changes. When I came back home I realized that the middle of the coral would be retracted but the outsides would be open. I also noticed that it was in the process of splitting into two...

Hey guys, so my nepthea has slowly been opening less is this a problem? Along with this mhm Toadstool hasn’t opened at all in the past week.

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...

Hey experts, I have a frogspawn that I recently got and it has not been doing well. It was fully extended when it was at my lfs, but ever since I brought it home, it has never been the same. I have some other corals in the tank (acan, favia, candy cane, and a hammer.) They are all doing fine...

Hi, I am pretty concerned right now. My 5 head Pink Hammer I got about 1.5 months had lost one head last week. I cut off the head, and dipped it, but it continued to worsen and died. Then recently I noticed my little octospawn I got at the same time is starting to show a bit of skeleton. It...

Hi y’all, I have a mixed reef mainly lps. I had an issue with 0 phosphates that I worked on and caused some issues. After things stabilized I did a water change to lower nitrates. Ever since the water change things have been taking a down trend and I’m losing pieces. Nitrates before water...

Hi everyone. This will be a bit of a long one. My tank is 7 months old and I've been having issues with keeping LPS, and by issues I mean all my lps die after 1-3 months of being added. As of yesterday: NO3: 5, PO4: 0.03, Alk= 7.85. I don't do water changes as often as I should, the last time...

Hi reefers, My 50G has been doing great with just a walling hammer coral and a small mushroom frag. Hammer was doing well & I was able to replenish whatever trace elements it needed with weekly water changes. I decided to add some more coral and recently purchased a Torch and a Duncan. Since...

I made a post yesterday about my concern over my LPS not opening. The torch had opened more but still looks irritated by something. The Acan is still shriveled. My pocillopora frag is looking irritated too. All of my softies are doing fine and my monti is doing well too. About 3 days ago I...

Hello, I have a 100 gallon Innovative Marine EXT100, and I'm losing corals. For lighting, I'm using two AI 32HDs. I run a protein skimmer, refugium (which is not at all growing my chaeto), a Carbon/GFO reactor plumbed into the manifold, and a UV sterilizer. I started this tank in November 2020...

I have some candy canes that have recently become super super mad for some reason. They deflated one day when I raised the pH of the water by 0.2 over about three days and now have slowly been reinflating during the day but looking like crap at night. Before and after pics attached. Any idea...

I've had these guys 8 months. They've gone from 2 heads to 20ish. The last 2 or 3 days they haven't wanted to inflate at all with the tissue held close to the skeleton. Tank is nearly 7 years old. Parameters are: Nitrate - 5ppm Nitrite - 0ppm Ammonia- 0 ppm Calcium - 520 ppm pH - 8.2...

Hey all! Maybe someone has an idea of what I can do. I got an amazeballs goni awhile back and it was open and happy for a few months. I had to move it because a month was overgrown and I think it stung the Goni. It kind of extended once last week but it’s now closed again. ive changed flow...

hello all! I got an Acan about 3 weeks ago, it’s been doing well, but today when I came to check on it was closed up and dark, the other corals in my tank are all doing great, but this one isn’t doing well. I attached a photo, please let me know if you see any issues

i got a small frag of toadstool mushroom Thursday. I also started running carbon. Today my LPS look bad and shriveled. Is this an effect of toxins from the mushroom or could it be the carbon leaching nutrients causing them to act bad? Just removed the carbon. salinity-1.025 pH-8.2 Nitrate-5ppm...