Candy cane coral bleaching

[spiraling]

Also...how the heck do you get calcium to move? Mine never moves, always at 415 ish. My alk though, gets used up quite a bit. lol

That might depend on your coral, salt, and water change schedule. Dosing 2 part is really 3 part (Mg included) and not always 1 to 1. Its best to measure them independently and dose accordingly.

 

[Miller535]

That might depend on your coral, salt, and water change schedule. Dosing 2 part is really 3 part (Mg included) and not always 1 to 1. Its best to measure them independently and dose accordingly.

Some are 1 to 1 and some are not. The ones that are 1 to 1, need to be dosed 1 to 1. BRS is an example of this. Often times people end up dosing unequal amounts of the 1 to 1 kind, end up doing so because they are precipitating out because of how they are dosing, where they are dosing, and how fast they are dosing. Particularly with cheap dosing heads that can not dose small amounts (1ml per min or less). Or by dumping in a days amount all at one time by hand.

 

[Aqauclear]

A waterchange shouldn't make your calcium low. It should replenish it if anything....so...if that tells you anything.

I'd check ammonia. etc. When something is that mad, I usually check everything regardless of the last test.

My magnesium is very high at 1500-14700 could that cause low caclium

 

[spiraling]

My magnesium is very high at 1500-14700 could that cause low caclium

generally not. generally low magnesium causes either alk or ca to be low. either your test kit is off or you have low ca. It can be caused by precipitation or by use. I use the BRS two partand consume alk more quickly than CA. (or precipitate it, either way its not available to the corals).

 

[rob s.]

i had a blasto start getting pale in spots. It turned out to be high nitrates. It slowly regaining its color again after NOPOX dosing and frequent water changes. Good luck hope it comes back for you

 

[snowhite]

Sounds to me like you need stop dosing other stuff, and do a bunch of consistent water changes, which will get your calcium up, and help stabilize your tank.

It seems the problems with your candy cane are general saltwater tank stability/maintenance issues rather than a specific coral related issue. Parameters that far out of whack with Calc low and other high don't happen on their own with consistent water changes.
Get back to the basic, which will allow you to analyze what is actually happening, and then compensate accordingly. Until you know what's really happening with the tank, anything else you do, dose, add, subtract, will only mask what is really happening.