Help!! Chalice

[Frederick Edwards]

What do I do?

 

[Frederick Edwards]

All other corals are fine and open

 

[Frederick Edwards]

Par is around 105 where it is.

 

[Fisherman Joe]

Sorry to see this.

Whats your Phopshates? >0.1 should be ok.

Chalice are picky I find, you could be doing nothing wrong. If it keeps dying back I would frag it from the good tissue only.

 

[Frederick Edwards]

Sorry to see this.

Whats your Phopshates? >0.1 should be ok.

Chalice are picky I find, you could be doing nothing wrong. If it keeps dying back I would frag it from the good tissue only.

Phosphates are 0

 

[Fisherman Joe]

I would try to get your phosphates to 0.02

It can inhibit calcification but only at high levels >1.0 and up until 0.1 you should be fine. You want low nutrients but not zero. I have literally just had the same problem:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/h...hates-but-not-zero.728143/page-3#post-7610379
Good luck.

 

[Frederick Edwards]

I would try to get your phosphates to 0.02

It can inhibit calcification but only at high levels >1.0 and up until 0.1 you should be fine. You want low nutrients but not zero. I have literally just had the same problem:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/h...hates-but-not-zero.728143/page-3#post-7610379
Good luck.

So I should probably stop dosing NO PO X?
My Nitrates were 20, now around 10.

 

[Fisherman Joe]

I would say say slowly stop dosing NO PO X, to go to zero would shock your system. Half it over a week and then again the next week.

I would try to set your skimmer to dry, to not take out too much nutrients too and give your fish a heavy feed.

10ppm is fine but ask on the reef chemistry page.

Also test, test, test, daily, to keep an eye on it. Do all of the above slowly and don't do too much at once. A big swing will finish your coral off. to be fair, it may be already dead. Sometimes you can't save them and it sucks!

 

[Frederick Edwards]

I would say say slowly stop dosing NO PO X, to go to zero would shock your system. Half it over a week and then again the next week.

I would try to set your skimmer to dry, to not take out too much nutrients too and give your fish a heavy feed.

10ppm is fine but ask on the reef chemistry page.

Also test, test, test, daily, to keep an eye on it. Do all of the above slowly and don't do too much at once. A big swing will finish your coral off. to be fair, it may be already dead. Sometimes you can't save them and it sucks!

Thanks for the advice. Yeah I just bought that chalice a few weeks ago,