Corals closing

[allof fish]

I’m new to reef tanks and I just got home from work today and my hammer coral is completely shrunken and closed up along with a few gonioporas. The tank was also unusually cloudy. I’ve recently had a cyano outbreak which I thought was getting better but looked worse after I stopped dosing bacteria. I cannot see any flatworms on the hammer and I thought the flow was good since the is another hammer right next to it. The gonis were doing decently but don’t extend polyps as much but torches doing well well above. Parameters are magnesium 1410, alkalinity 8.9 nitrate around 2. And calcium 470. Could it just be doing its thing. Do I need to continue to dose to beat cyano. Please help!

 

[mh0ward]

Unusually cloudy sounds like a bacterial bloom. How long has the tank been running?

 

[allof fish]

With fish and coral about 2 weeks. Was running with just water rocks and sand no light for about a month

 

[allof fish]

It’s looks a little more clear now I changed filter socks and scraped the glass but cyano is worse without me dosing. I know parameters are good. It’s just this one hammer is only noticed today and a little bit of the gonis

 

[mh0ward]

Did you start with dry or live rock? I think you're probably experiencing quite a bit of instability in a tank that new. The coral you mentioned generally prefer a little more mature system, and even then, Goniopora can still be somewhat challenging. If you started with dry rock, cyano is just the start of the uglies. You're probably going to have another 3-4 months of cyano, diatoms, hair algae, etc.

 

[Shirak]

Post photos with the white lights on. Unlikely to be cyano if it's all over the glass too.

 

[allof fish]

95% was dry rock with a few pieces of live to seed it. Let it cycle for a month. Isn’t necessary on glass in that more of a maintenance issue on my end since the algae scrapper I have sucks and I haven’t done it as much. Started out with small red dots on rock and others have said it is cyano. Slowed down after dosing for a week. Got 2 torches the other day and they are doing fantastic, polyps extended and good colors. Not sure if I have gonis up too high only about 2-3 inches off sand bed, may try moving them to a new spot

 

[allof fish]

Still a little more blue light. First hammer has retracted as of today. Next hammer has look just like that since I got it. First Goni has opened up a little since I first said it hadn’t only had about 3 days. Other 2 have come out a little bit but not as much as a week ago. I have messed with my flow a decent amount since I got my torches since gyre is on opposite side. Want them and gonis to get enough flow but not blast hammers underneath. Have played around but have seemed to figured it out. Added first tang yesterday after he passed qt. Rocks have been brown/red and a lot of white spots where he specks so I assume algae. I’m no expert but just what I’m seeing

 

[Shirak]

Can't see anything except blue

 

[allof fish]

Now it is completely melting away. I don’t think it’s even savable. What’s wrong with it. It’s the only one doing that and all parameters are stable and good??

 

[Shirak]

Now it is completely melting away. I don’t think it’s even savable. What’s wrong with it. It’s the only one doing that and all parameters are stable and good??

Can't see anything with all blue photos. WHITE LIGHT please!!!!!!

First post you mentioned nitrates 2. That's very low for LPS. What are your phosphate levels? What kind of light and par? My guess it's lacking nutrients and possibly light. These are the biggest factors IMO for coral declining in health over time. LPS will often look good for a while even as they are slowly losing tissue.

 

[I never finish anythi]

Tank is probably to new . I highly doubt it's stable after just 2 weeks .

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

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[allof fish]

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to save him. He was melting away and I concluded he had some type or bacterial infection or BJD. My tank may be new and maybe not the most stable tank but I have been slow with fish, a little faster with corals but slowing down for a bit now. I have a total of 10 lps frags and they are are doing perfectly fine. Polyps extended, all look healthy and in right amount of light/flow. I even talked with a few coral experts and they couldn’t figure it out either. Just got unlucky I guess but will be watching all the other corals in the meantime. Nitrates are a bit low so trying to get those up while also doing bacteria everyday.

 

[I never finish anythi]

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to save him. He was melting away and I concluded he had some type or bacterial infection or BJD. My tank may be new and maybe not the most stable tank but I have been slow with fish, a little faster with corals but slowing down for a bit now. I have a total of 10 lps frags and they are are doing perfectly fine. Polyps extended, all look healthy and in right amount of light/flow. I even talked with a few coral experts and they couldn’t figure it out either. Just got unlucky I guess but will be watching all the other corals in the meantime. Nitrates are a bit low so trying to get those up while also doing bacteria everyday.

I hope everything works out for you bro . Keep us updated.