Hi reefers,
My 50G has been doing great with just a walling hammer coral and a small mushroom frag. Hammer was doing well & I was able to replenish whatever trace elements it needed with weekly water changes. I decided to add some more coral and recently purchased a Torch and a Duncan. Since adding the new coral to the tank, my hammer has started to do progressively worse every day until it fully closed up 2 days ago. I did a water change yesterday and it is still fully closed. My initial thought was that the new coral were sucking up all of the alkalinity in the tank, but my ALK is currently sitting at 9.9dKH. It turns out that my calcium has dropped to 200 (it never dropped this low when it was just the hammer)
Here is what the Hammer looked like before and how it looks now
Also throwing in some pictures of the new Duncan and Torch
I haven't really gotten into dosing because it wasn't necessary before, but I do have Red Sea Alk/Cal/Mag on hand as well as All For Reef.
Can anyone please help me with recommendations on how to get my Hammer back to health?
Thank you in advance!
Params:
Salinity: 1.027
Phosphate 0.07 ppm
Magnesium 1600 ppm
Calcium 200 ppm
PH 8.2
Alkalinity 9.9 dKH
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Light: Kessil A160WE Tuna Blue
Wavemaker: Jebao Gyre (Low to Med Flow)
ATO: Tunze 3152 Osmolator
Filtration: SCA-301 Protein Skimmer
Filter Floss
Reactor with Rox 0.8 Carbon
Refugium with Chaetomorpha
My 50G has been doing great with just a walling hammer coral and a small mushroom frag. Hammer was doing well & I was able to replenish whatever trace elements it needed with weekly water changes. I decided to add some more coral and recently purchased a Torch and a Duncan. Since adding the new coral to the tank, my hammer has started to do progressively worse every day until it fully closed up 2 days ago. I did a water change yesterday and it is still fully closed. My initial thought was that the new coral were sucking up all of the alkalinity in the tank, but my ALK is currently sitting at 9.9dKH. It turns out that my calcium has dropped to 200 (it never dropped this low when it was just the hammer)
Here is what the Hammer looked like before and how it looks now
Also throwing in some pictures of the new Duncan and Torch
I haven't really gotten into dosing because it wasn't necessary before, but I do have Red Sea Alk/Cal/Mag on hand as well as All For Reef.
Can anyone please help me with recommendations on how to get my Hammer back to health?
Thank you in advance!
Params:
Salinity: 1.027
Phosphate 0.07 ppm
Magnesium 1600 ppm
Calcium 200 ppm
PH 8.2
Alkalinity 9.9 dKH
Ammonia 0 ppm
Nitrite 0 ppm
Nitrate 20 ppm
Light: Kessil A160WE Tuna Blue
Wavemaker: Jebao Gyre (Low to Med Flow)
ATO: Tunze 3152 Osmolator
Filtration: SCA-301 Protein Skimmer
Filter Floss
Reactor with Rox 0.8 Carbon
Refugium with Chaetomorpha