First Corals - Is it dead or is there hope?

[singwithmylife]

I got my first four corals online one week ago and all of them are doing quite well except for one. The clove polyp seems to really be struggling and I can’t tell if I should give up hope, or just leave it alone and keep hoping…. Is there anything I can do to help it?

 

[VintageReefer]

I’ve had new clove polyps stay closed up for weeks

Tried several times. Some never opened. Then one frag did. No idea why

 

[logibear]

no experience with clove polyps but I had a Zoa fall off a rock. I thought it just melted away and at least a month later I saw some color on the sand bed. Three zoa heads were somehow still alive on the sand bed. I re-glued it and it looks happy as can be now. Lesson is sometimes corals can be way more hardy than you think. Just give it some time, might make it in the end.

 

[VintageReefer]

Tank looks very new also. Is there any sand or rock in it?

 

[ReefQuestCorals]

Tank looks very new also. Is there any sand or rock in it?

Im on the same page here. Very new tank, spotless glass, no substrate. If I was to assume seeing OP has no information on their system that the tank has a lack of nutrients which will lead to issues with corals.

I got my first four corals online one week ago and all of them are doing quite well except for one. The clove polyp seems to really be struggling and I can’t tell if I should give up hope, or just leave it alone and keep hoping…. Is there anything I can do to help it?

If you could give us information on your system it would help. Age, size, lighting, flow, parameters (salinity, alk, nitrate, phosphate would be most important here) The more information the better someone can assist

 

[singwithmylife]

Tank looks very new also. Is there any sand or rock in it?

It’s a quarantine tank.

 

[ColorMeGone]

They don't like algae on them and to me it's looks like they have some growing on the stems. I would dip them in a peroxide solution if they were mine.

 

[singwithmylife]

Im on the same page here. Very new tank, spotless glass, no substrate. If I was to assume seeing OP has no information on their system that the tank has a lack of nutrients which will lead to issues with corals.



If you could give us information on your system it would help. Age, size, lighting, flow, parameters (salinity, alk, nitrate, phosphate would be most important here) The more information the better someone can assist

Here’s my parameters. It’s a 10 gallon quarantine tank. It’s been running for about a month. The corals were added a week ago. I used live seawater to start it up. I have a fluval U2 filter flowing out of the top output for circulation and oxygenation, and a Hydor powerhead which pushes 240 GPH aimed above them, not directly at them. My light is a fluval sea nano. The setting is below. My par meter isn’t very good so I’ve just been slowly ramping up the light and seeing how they all react. If it would be helpful, I can try and get a video of the flow.

 

[singwithmylife]

They don't like algae on them and to me it's looks like they have some growing on the stems. I would dip them in a peroxide solution if they were mine.

How do I make it? How long do I Dip them? Does the regular coral dip not kill algae

 

[VintageReefer]

How do I make it? How long do I Dip them? Does the regular coral dip not kill algae

Alk is very low. I always have issues when alk drops below 7.5

Regular coral dips are for pest critters and won’t affect algae

Put them in a container of salt water. Maybe a quart. Add hydrogen peroxide 50ml at a time, baste it around and wait 1-2 minute and look for micro bubbles fizzing out of the plug or algae areas. If no fizzing after 1-2 min, add 50ml more, stir, and wait 1-2 minutes and check. Repeat until you get fizzing. It should look like soda fizz

Once the micro bubbles start forming and rising, let it it for 5 minutes then it can be removed from dip and go right back in the qt tank

 

[singwithmylife]

Alk is very low. I always have issues when alk drops below 7.5

Regular coral dips are for pest critters and won’t affect algae

Put them in a container of salt water. Maybe a quart. Add hydrogen peroxide 50ml at a time, baste it around and wait 1-2 minute and look for micro bubbles fizzing out of the plug or algae areas. If no fizzing after 1-2 min, add 50ml more, stir, and wait 1-2 minutes and check. Repeat until you get fizzing. It should look like soda fizz

Once the micro bubbles start forming and rising, let it it for 5 minutes then it can be removed from dip and go right back in the qt tank

Thank you!

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I think the tank being only one month old might have something to do with it. Nitrate and phosphate are very low. Alk is very low as mentioned. Judging from the amount of glue on some of those frags, they have have been freshly cut before selling to you.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I think your tank might be too new, as a lot of your parameters are very low. I would work on raising your parameters, and hopefully the coral will survive!

 

[singwithmylife]

I think your tank might be too new, as a lot of your parameters are very low. I would work on raising your parameters, and hopefully the coral will survive!

It’s just a quarantine tank. They’ll be moving to the display tank in a week. I’m just monitoring for pests.