Emergency help for gorgonian coral

[vetteguy53081]

download the mega app. I have it and its safe. that will play the vid

Its prompting me t download a codec and my antivirus tools are preventing that

 

[LunaReefs]

Ph is 8.3
Nitrate 0-20ppm
Temp 26c
Salinity 25

I don't think it's excreting anything. They open & close up/retract at night or when bothered. Might just be reopening?

 

[Keko21]

 

[1112-425XL]

 

[zheka757]

I see you already got help you need, but Welcome to R2R

 

[MDAquatics]

Welcome! I don't know much about them but as stated many times this a great place for help. If I could give any advise it would be to not make any changes too fast. Slow and steady wins!

 

[mBoN]

Ah okay mate. So it will recover right? I thought to throw it away thinking its dying now. So i will increase salinity and just increase water flow.

I did check and the video was good.
I would recommend you get your salinity up a bit and get your temp down to what I posted earlier. Do it slowly though, like get your salinity and temp to where it needs to be over 3-4 days, Little moves to see what happens. It may take some time to see any improvements in your gorgonians. if there is no improvement within a weeks time, start looking at lighting intensity and flow. That is what I recommend

 

[mBoN]

Thanks. i have two redsea 300 g2 and a redsea nano and one custom 2x2 tank. Im self learnt and learning daily. Hopefully ill learn much as you all soon as possible.

I see you already got help you need, but Welcome to R2R

 

[mBoN]

Sure. I will upload now and send you link. Btw is there any chat group with you experts so that its easy to join and clarify my dohbts?

Cant play video
Can you post a you tube video?

 

[BanZI29]

Ah okay mate. So it will recover right? I thought to throw it away thinking its dying now. So i will increase salinity and just increase water flow.

up your salinity and lower your temp. do it slowly though or you could shock everyone.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Sure. I will upload now and send you link. Btw is there any chat group with you experts so that its easy to join and clarify my dohbts?

Youre on a chat in essence and allows others to share and learn. We have a specialized grouping(s) but you have access to us within various forums

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/

 

[mBoN]

up your salinity and lower your temp. do it slowly though or you could shock everyone.

Youre on a chat in essence and allows others to share and learn. We have a specialized grouping(s) but you have access to us within various forums

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/

 

[mBoN]

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up your salinity and lower your temp. do it slowly though or you could shock everyone.

had temp 26 and now i setupped to 24C. Salinity will increase slowly as you mentioned. Thanks mate ️

 

[BanZI29]

I'm wondering, how are all your other corals doing?

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

On the subject of salinity, if you mean 1.024 in your initial listing of parameters, you are close and should really only go up to 1.026 if you raise it
I would hate to see it misunderstood that you were posting SG to the .001 when you said 24 and not PPT which would typically be losted as ## as you did and not 1.0## as you may have meant

If you meant 24PPT then yeah that is pretty low.

 

[LilElroyJetson]

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thanks for video. Looks more like its dying and lacking flow and nutrients. It really needs good flow however seahorses cant tolerate that type of flow as they are slow swimmers. increase slow slightly.

 

[mBoN]

They are awesome. Let me send you few pictures now. I have attached pictures from two different tanks of mine. So far i have found issue with this gognorian coral only. And i have issue with one more coral. Ill post a video of that too. Its somewhat carrying some white powder stuffs on it. First 5 picture are from the tank where gognorian is and the next pictures are from other tank.

I'm wondering, how are all your other corals doing?

 

[mBoN]

Yeah it is 1.0025

On the subject of salinity, if you mean 1.024 in your initial listing of parameters, you are close and should really only go up to 1.026 if you raise it
I would hate to see it misunderstood that you were posting SG to the .001 when you said 24 and not PPT which would typically be losted as ## as you did and not 1.0## as you may have meant

If you meant 24PPT then yeah that is pretty low.

 

[Court_Appointed_Hypeman]

Yeah it is 1.0025

I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to start targeting 1.035. Def reccomend a ceiling of 1.0264 which is 35ppt. That salinity is pretty spot on already, but I personally run mine riggt between 34.8ppt and 35ppt