I got a trumpet frag from my lfs in December and placed it away from my pump and in the sand bed so that it receives less lighting. My Alk, Calc, Mag, PH and Nitrite levels are all optimum based on sea level as recommended by my lfs but it appears that the coral is shrinking and loosing flesh...
Just got this Cryptonite trumpet a couple weeks ago and there were a couple holes near the base that I assumed were from a hermit crab pulling the frag plug out of the rock hole and choke slamming it to the ground. But yesterday I noticed the holes are getting larger at increasing rates and...
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I've had all of these LPS for a few weeks. The LFS owner identified them, in order, as "Trumpet," "Fireworks Favia," and "Closed Brain."
The trumpet and the fireworks favia do not look like photos I've seen online of those corals. The "trumpet" looks like it could plausibly be a trumpet...
Recently I’ve been noticing my Candy Cane getting thinner and thinner, it now had it’s skeleton completely exposed. From what I’ve heard these are supposed to be dang near indestructible... my parameters read ok (outside of higher nitrates). Coral looked decent on 14 Feb & a week later (20 Feb)...
I received a green trumpet from a friend that was gonna throw it out because most of the flesh is gone and there is just a mouth. Do you guys think its done for?