I forgot the name it’s a hard coral with big polyps I saw is was closing slowly yesterday thought it was irritated today none of the polyps are out, did a water change yesterday, no corals are around it. I dose calcium regularly. Help
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The tank is pretty new around 3/4 a year to 9 monthsishwill need so much more info for anyone to help.
Tank age? How long is the coral there? parameters? light? flow?
Parameters: ?????
Ph
Nitrate
Nitrite
Ammonia
If you had read what else I added I clearly added the parametersParameters: ?????
Ph
Nitrate
Nitrite
Ammonia
Sorry, but I don't see any numbers. Does that mean you haven't tested them yet?If you had read what else I added I clearly added the parameters
Sorry i forgot to add themSorry, but I don't see any numbers. Does that mean you haven't tested them yet?
This is what tested yesterday I don’t know why you it didn’t upload on the messageSorry i forgot to add them
Ammonia:.25
Nitrate:10 ppm
Nitrite: 0
Ph:8.7
Don't forget phosphate test. That is just as important as nitrate. Why are you dosing calcium? You should not be dosing calcium if you are not testing it. Are you testing calcium?This is what tested yesterday I don’t know why you it didn’t upload on the message
those are not parameters....we need the values of those in order to possibly nail down an issue...The tank is pretty new around 3/4 a year to 9 monthsish
Size: 40gl tall tank
Light: it’s a nicrew aquarium saltwater lights 3 rows or 24 leds
Flow: medium, my tank is slit in three different areas the right side is for float corals as torch, forgspawn, and hammers
The middle is for sps and SOFIE corals as green sliders and finger coral and the left side is for coral who need low to no flow like zoas and mushrooms
Parameters:
Ph
Nitrate
Nitrite
Ammonia
I’m planning on getting a test kit with a wider variety of thing to test as calcium and alkilinity
Filter: Marineland penguin 350 power
had a calcium deficiency so I was dosing, this coral was dead because the lack of calcium it slowly came back. I don’t have a phosphate nor calcium tester I don’t have money to spend 200 on a newer test kit.Don't forget phosphate test. That is just as important as nitrate. Why are you dosing calcium? You should not be dosing calcium if you are not testing it. Are you testing calcium?
Sorry i forgot to add themthose are not parameters....we need the values of those in order to possibly nail down an issue...
How can you know you had a deficiency if you don’t test for it or lfs test it for you? How do you know how much to add? If you don’t have funds for it you honestly need to keep to simple soft corals then and not really a need to test much. Still need lighting and flow for more help.had a calcium deficiency so I was dosing, this coral was dead because the lack of calcium it slowly came back. I don’t have a phosphate nor calcium tester I don’t have money to spend 200 on a newer test kit.
It may be I am planning on getting the reef master kit for api as it contains calcium and phosphates along with other important parameters, I only really does every month or so I hadn’t does until over a month I only does cause had returned for a week long trip and was there to feed the fish or take care of corals.polyps not opening could be one of a couple things that i have experienced myself.
perhaps it doesnt open when lights on. i personally havent had one of these corals, so i dont know if this is a trait of this type of coral. elevated phosphate was another big one for me. with sps, fluctuations are a contributor too.
if you are dosing, it could be large fluctuations causing it to be unhappy. your ph is quite high, so that number is either wrong, or youre dosing something else that caused that to get high, which would make me think that there is large fluctuations in water parameters. hard to say, because there are no parameters listed for the other important coral paramaters. the red sea foundation pro test kit is 70$, which will allow you to test for the big 3 coral parameters (MG, CA, and ALK). phosphate will be seperate. for the sake of finding a range youre in, if you want to go cheap, you can get an api kit, but they arent in small increments, but it would give you a ballpark to see if its elevated. otherwise, red sea has a phosphate kit for 50.
as mentioned just before, lighting and flow are the last couple things that would need to be known
that will at least get you going. although calcium is important, it would be the alk and phosphate that i would focus on when it comes to your issue.It may be I am planning on getting the reef master kit for api as it contains calcium and phosphates along with other important parameters, I only really does every month or so I hadn’t does until over a month I only does cause had returned for a week long trip and was there to feed the fish or take care of corals.
it could be that the light is just not bright enough for that coral?? im not an expert on that light, so i will let someone else talk about that, butr looking at the description of that light in a long bar version, the description says to use two of them just for low light sps, which would leave me to believe that, just to get an sps that requires minimal amount of light power, that two of them are needed just for that.
thats all just a guess on my part.
I have the light on full power I lowered it to 80 percent cuase the zoas were closing at around 7pm and it caused to much algae, no others corals have closed and have actually opened up more and grown,it could be that the light is just not bright enough for that coral?? im not an expert on that light, so i will let someone else talk about that, butr looking at the description of that light in a long bar version, the description says to use two of them just for low light sps, which would leave me to believe that, just to get an sps that requires minimal amount of light power, that two of them are needed just for that.
thats all just a guess on my part.
Looks like lephastrea and some things that will cause this:I forgot the name it’s a hard coral with big polyps I saw is was closing slowly yesterday thought it was irritated today none of the polyps are out, did a water change yesterday, no corals are around it. I dose calcium regularly. Help