Duncan issue

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

Hey guys my 3 month old Duncan’s have been like this for 2 days usually they are fully extended and beautiful should I be worried all other corals are doing great all my parameters are right on par except my calcium took a dip down to 360 slowly raising it now

#reefsquad

 

[Justin Cook]

I've always kept a few colonies of Duncans and they really do get fussy once in a while and stay closed. However, that's usually only for a day or two. I wouldn't be worried at this point but bring your calcium up and hopefully it'll recover. If it stays like this for another day or two, I would dip in Thrive or Coral Rx. I've found that a good cleaning dip can snap them out of whatever funk they're in.

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

I've always kept a few colonies of Duncans and they really do get fussy once in a while and stay closed. However, that's usually only for a day or two. I wouldn't be worried at this point but bring your calcium up and hopefully it'll recover. If it stays like this for another day or two, I would dip in Thrive or Coral Rx. I've found that a good cleaning dip can snap them out of whatever funk they're in.

Thanks I also have a batch of reef roids coming in tomorrow would that help?

 

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Thanks I also have a batch of reef roids coming in tomorrow would that help?

I feel like once they are closed up it's hard to get them to respond to food. It might respond, I've had one that got mad and stayed closed for a week. Make sure there is no infection or sign of recession, if there is it will require some sort of dip to get it going again

 

[Justin Cook]

Thanks I also have a batch of reef roids coming in tomorrow would that help?

Honestly, I've never really seen much of a feeding response when they're like this. I don't think it would hurt but they're mad about something and sometimes it almost impossible to figure out why. I had a purple fleshed duncan shrink and turn all white recently and the only thing it could have been was a change in salt. Everything else was fine but I had to dip the duncan and put it in my hospital tank.

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

Sounds like a plan thanks guys I’ll give it a day then try a dip

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

Update it took 6 days to get the calcium up at 440 now was down as low as 320 Duncans looking better today I think I had a calcium overdose that’s why it dropped so low

 

[Justin Cook]

Update it took 6 days to get the calcium up at 440 now was down as low as 320 Duncans looking better today I think I had a calcium overdose that’s why it dropped so low

You mean you overdosed calcium and ended up losing a lot so it dipped really low? I have a friend that is having the exact same issue and I'd really like to give him something to try. So you think it was the high calcium or the low calcium that screwed them up? Or just the swings? I know his calcium is currently quite high (520+)

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

You mean you overdosed calcium and ended up losing a lot so it dipped really low? I have a friend that is having the exact same issue and I'd really like to give him something to try. So you think it was the high calcium or the low calcium that screwed them up? Or just the swings? I know his calcium is currently quite high (520+)

I’m pretty sure it was the low calcium that affected the corals when calcium gets too high it can build up from a liquid to a solid calcium form and cause you to have low calcium I cleaned out my filtration system and my levels started to level out correctly after that

 

[ChiSox Rabbitfish]

I did find the root cause I had started dosing for some more coralline growth I didn’t realize that stuff is pretty much just calcium oops lesson learned