Blue Sympodium frag-dying?

kkgaskin90 · Apr 17, 2015

Came in Tuesday night with a few other frags. Properly acclimated and everything else looks great. 1/2 of it disintegrated and I'm worried about the other half. It's on the sand bed in alternating med/low flow. Any tips? Its got a guarantee but of course I want to give it the best chance possible.

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KJ · Apr 17, 2015

What you water parameters MG NO3 PO4 and your flow .

Tahoe61 · Apr 17, 2015

Yeah I would check both, hard to tell if you're blasting it with flow or not enough from the image.

kkgaskin90 · Apr 17, 2015

It's getting enough flow that it's picking up the left side of the mat when it blows. I don't have a way to test MG but NO3 was 5 PO4 was 0 when I got them in Wednesday. I'll test again here in a bit. I only have API test kit which I've heard is not great. But all the other coral is looking good except the Blastomussa frag that also came with that shipment.
Forgot to mention, they were in styrofoam with a heat pack for well over 24 hours and I live in the Deep South so they were HOT when they got here.

Tahoe61 · Apr 17, 2015

Well Wednesday, ok two days. Check your chemistry as you're already gonna do. I have a Ducan I got on Wed. it's still mad, sometimes things take longer to acclimate, but check your chemistry.

chaderduke · May 4, 2015

any update?

kkgaskin90 · May 4, 2015

The other 1/2 came back! I'm out of town but when I left all were open and happy. I had a bit of a nitrate spike... I think because I massively increased flow and stirred up a lot of sediment within the rock work. Got that taken care of and everything is hunky dory. Not sure if it was the nitrates (reached 20) or just still acclimating.