Are my corals sick?

[Todd White]

My aquarium guy says their fine but i think my coral are sick. Comments please. Bought them 5 months ago, in a 180 gallon tank, a little over 10p lbs live rock, all quality tests are normal. I dont know how to post a pic if someone can help.

 

[Dragonreef202]

How many lbs of live rock do you have? You should have at least over 100 lbs for a 180 gallon tank

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

What type of coral and what symptoms? Any metal possibly gotten into water? What are your parameters? What type of water do you top off with? Gonna need a little more info to help out.
Pics are worth a million words in this hobby. To add a pic, when posting a reply, there is an "upload file" button you may click as well. From there choose the pic to add. Then when it's in the sub box below the post, click on "full image" and that will add it to your post.

 

[Coastie Reefer]

I'm guessing the p is a typo... I'm sure he meant 100 lbs. Todd, are you using a phone or computer to post?

 

[Todd White]

How many lbs of live rock do you have? You should have at least over 100 lbs for a 180 gallon tank

Between 100 and 120 lbs live rock

 

[Todd White]

What type of coral and what symptoms? Any metal possibly gotten into water? What are your parameters? What type of water do you top off with? Gonna need a little more info to help out.
Pics are worth a million words in this hobby. To add a pic, when posting a reply, there is an "upload file" button you may click as well. From there choose the pic to add. Then when it's in the sub box below the post, click on "full image" and that will add it to your post.

The corals are, hammer coral, flower pot goniopora, and another i forgot the name of. Water top off is fresh water, monthly changes, both bought at my supplier. Parameters at last change, calcium 360, kh 214.8, phosphate 0.25, nitrate 0, high range ph 8.4, amonia 0, nitrite 0.

 

[Elementalj]

Between 100 and 120 lbs live rock

We still can't help you if we don't have enough information. Corals being "sick" can mean just about anything.

Please tell us what the corals are, and what they're specifically doing to indicate illness. Please also list your current parameters and setup if possible.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

My hammer will occasionally pull in like that when conserving energy to expand. Second pic I believe is anthelia. Be careful, it will grow out of hand and is a beast to remove. Flower pot I agree doesn't look too happy, I agree. Any type of GFO running? I do know gonni likes a little bit of dirtier water, though I have only had alveopora and it slowly diminished in my tank due to lack of nutrience. (I'm finally getting some NO3 back in as I ran it too clean for a while there and things looking way better now. Puffy acans and whatnot)
I'd worry if start to see skeleton of the hammers, but they look ok to me at moment, like I said, mine go through phases like that.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

What type of lighting? And rodi top off correct?

 

[Todd White]

I'm guessing the p is a typo... I'm sure he meant 100 lbs. Todd, are you using a phone or computer to post?

Phone and i gave nubby fingers. Lol

 

[Elementalj]

The corals are, hammer coral, flower pot goniopora, and another i forgot the name of. Water top off is fresh water, monthly changes, both bought at my supplier. Parameters at last change, calcium 360, kh 214.8, phosphate 0.25, nitrate 0, high range ph 8.4, amonia 0, nitrite 0.

Looks like the alkalinity may be on the high side of I'm reading that right.

 

[Todd White]

What type of lighting? And rodi top off correct?

Lighting us led full spectrum. Rodi is correct

 

[Elementalj]

Lighting us led full spectrum. Rodi is correct

What do you have the intensity set at? How high is it about the water surface?

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Looks like the alkalinity may be on the high side of I'm reading that right.

I didn't have the conversion off hand to dkh, nor educated myself in the measuring via that method so didn't touch that number. I personally run about 7-7.5dkh when undetectable nutrience.

 

[Elementalj]

Multiply it by .056 and it's like a 12.5

 

[Elementalj]

Correction 12.028

 

[Elementalj]

I'd also like to know the brand of the fixture.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

But now that I look, I agree. Alk a little high. Po4 a little high. Ca a little low.
What is current SG?
We will get to the bottom of it after only 300 more questions. Lol

 

[Elementalj]

But now that I look, I agree. Alk a little high. Po4 a little high. Ca a little low.
What is current SG?
We will get to the bottom of it after only 300 more questions. Lol

Dude, we need t-shirts with a logo!

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Haha!