Are Lobos this sensitive?

[LMDAVE]

When I bought this Lobo from the LFS last Sunday, I saw some of the exposed skeleton, I probably didn't think much of it assuming it will probably grow back. Thinking about it now, maybe I should have gotten a discount on this one. Either way, this has been the state of it.

1: Sunday 2 PM
2: Sunday Evening
3: Wednesday afternoon looked very fragile and shrunken. Only parameter outside of norm was Alk down to 7.8, I did a 25% water change, raised alk back to 9 and also did a coral feeding with "reef bugs" (which I'm not sure if they like that or not)
4: Thursday morning things look a little better.

The only other feeding I did was squirting a little Rod's fish food in it's direction while normal fish feeding.
Just looked like I was losing the lobo already yesterday, glad to see it recovering a little this morning.

Its placed at the bottom where my LED par is fairly low when it get down there. And flow is low to medium

in that area.

Parameters:
Amon 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate ~7
pH 8.2
Sal 1.025
Temp 79
Alk 8-9
Calc 410-425 (When Alk and Cal fal to low end I does back up after water changes if needed)
Mag 1350
Phosphate 0.08

 

[ajhudson15]

how low do you let your alk get. could the Wednesday pic be where the alk was low?

 

[Krzydmnd]

As long as it's not losing more tissue I'd suspect it's just acclimating to your tank. It does already look better in pic 4 which is a good sign. I'd avoid feeding it for a few days unless it's opening up for food. Check on it at night and see if it's opening, and give it a few more days to settle in.

 

[LMDAVE]

I've been in the habit of check Alk/Cal about once every 3 days trying to learn the consumption as I'm adding coral. I checked the Alk after the water change and it was 7.8, lower than it usually was, and considering it was after the water change, could have been a little lower before the WC. Usually it's down to about 8 when I end up dosing it back up.

Do you think this swing did that and I should check and dose more often. I'm still trying to figure out a good daily consumption number.

 

[Krzydmnd]

I've been in the habit of check Alk/Cal about once every 3 days trying to learn the consumption as I'm adding coral. I checked the Alk after the water change and it was 7.8, lower than it usually was, and considering it was after the water change, could have been a little lower before the WC. Usually it's down to about 8 when I end up dosing it back up.

Do you think this swing did that and I should check and dose more often. I'm still trying to figure out a good daily consumption number.

Mine will typically shrivel after a water change for a day or two but always comes bsck.

Auto dosing will help if you are at up for it.

 

[LMDAVE]

Mine will typically shrivel after a water change for a day or two but always comes bsck.

it was like that before the WC, that is what prompted me to do the WC.

 

[Krzydmnd]

it was like that before the WC, that is what prompted me to do the WC.

It was newly added to the tank right? I'm sure that was the original reason it tightened up.

 

[LMDAVE]

Yeah, thats why I shown the 4 pics. Sunday at 2 was when it was added, it looked happy by Sunday evening in pic 2. It was Normal the next couple of days and looked like it did in pic 3 on Wednesday when I got home from work.

 

[Krzydmnd]

Yeah, thats why I shown the 4 pics. Sunday at 2 was when it was added, it looked happy by Sunday evening in pic 2. It was Normal the next couple of days and looked like it did in pic 3 on Wednesday when I got home from work.

How is it looking tonight?

 

[LMDAVE]

It looked good all day, lights went down about an hour ago and on blues now. Lobo appears to have shrunk up again, but even my Trachy shrinks up when lights go down so maybe that’s a light thing this time