AFHokie
Active Member
I’ve had this sunset monti since May and my tank is now 8 months old.
Over the months it started fading but still had good PE and bright green polyps. The fading coincided with my nutrients bottoming out and some other parameter swings. In general, it has been in the tank through various new tank troubles. Dinos, nutrients zeroed out, light changes (mostly from dino treatment), small alk and salinity spikes.
Over the past couple months, however, my parameters have been stable, other corals are doing great and overall the tank is doing really good. This guy, though, is not thriving.
About 5-6 weeks ago I moved it up toward the top of my tank based on some recommendations that it wasn’t getting enough light. Up here where it is in the pic it gets around 180-190 from an XR15 on AB+. Out of the picture to the upper left is a sicce power head.
The lower part of the coral has colored back up but as you can see the top is struggling. The tip with coralline has been that way for quite a while but the poor PE and bleaching is new.
Since parts of the coral are turning red again I feel like it’s not the light. Could the flow from the PH be causing the problems on the top? The redder parts are somewhat shielded since they are on the backside of the flow.
So, do I risk moving it again to a lower flow, lower light spot? Keep light similar but away from PH?
SG: 1.026
Alk: 10
Ca: 450
Mg: 1300
PO4: .05
NO3: 5-10
Potassium: 380
Over the months it started fading but still had good PE and bright green polyps. The fading coincided with my nutrients bottoming out and some other parameter swings. In general, it has been in the tank through various new tank troubles. Dinos, nutrients zeroed out, light changes (mostly from dino treatment), small alk and salinity spikes.
Over the past couple months, however, my parameters have been stable, other corals are doing great and overall the tank is doing really good. This guy, though, is not thriving.
About 5-6 weeks ago I moved it up toward the top of my tank based on some recommendations that it wasn’t getting enough light. Up here where it is in the pic it gets around 180-190 from an XR15 on AB+. Out of the picture to the upper left is a sicce power head.
The lower part of the coral has colored back up but as you can see the top is struggling. The tip with coralline has been that way for quite a while but the poor PE and bleaching is new.
Since parts of the coral are turning red again I feel like it’s not the light. Could the flow from the PH be causing the problems on the top? The redder parts are somewhat shielded since they are on the backside of the flow.
So, do I risk moving it again to a lower flow, lower light spot? Keep light similar but away from PH?
SG: 1.026
Alk: 10
Ca: 450
Mg: 1300
PO4: .05
NO3: 5-10
Potassium: 380
