I have a 30 gallon nano tank that's well established with a clownfish pair, damsel, brittle star, reef lobster, urchin, snails, hermit crabs, pods, etc., and I have a few coral. Everything's been doing great, except for two of my four coral frags
My red monti cap had shown signs of bleaching shortly after I first got it about a month ago, and that may have been because I put it too high on the light a couple of times. Since leaving it on the bottom it more or less stopped bleaching, but it also hasn't been showing any signs of recovering despite providing it with regular feedings several times a week
And my duncan coral frag and mushroom closed up since my last water change, which I gave the tank in December, when I first got the frag.
A week or two ago I was told that I needed to get more fish in order to add some nitrate so the corals wouldn't starve. The mushroom has since fully recovered and the duncan is more open now than it was but it's still not fully open with that tentacly/anemone look that they're supposed to have. I've also had a few duncan corals in the years passed that also behaved this way. I fed the fish more and put plankton in a bit more often as well, and just today I pulled the lighting intensity back from 40% to 10%. The light is a VIPRASPECTRA LED
I currently don't have a means of providing an accurate test for water parameters but will be getting some salifert and hanna test kits in the near future, but considering everything else is showing no signs of an issue, including my candy cane coral and my mushroom, my parameters don't seem to be out of whack.
What I'd like to know is if there's anything else I could be doing or am missing that would help the red monti recover from the bleaching, and to have the dunan coral finally open up again. Like, should I add a fourth fish to the mix? Here's the coral frags:
My red monti cap had shown signs of bleaching shortly after I first got it about a month ago, and that may have been because I put it too high on the light a couple of times. Since leaving it on the bottom it more or less stopped bleaching, but it also hasn't been showing any signs of recovering despite providing it with regular feedings several times a week
And my duncan coral frag and mushroom closed up since my last water change, which I gave the tank in December, when I first got the frag.
A week or two ago I was told that I needed to get more fish in order to add some nitrate so the corals wouldn't starve. The mushroom has since fully recovered and the duncan is more open now than it was but it's still not fully open with that tentacly/anemone look that they're supposed to have. I've also had a few duncan corals in the years passed that also behaved this way. I fed the fish more and put plankton in a bit more often as well, and just today I pulled the lighting intensity back from 40% to 10%. The light is a VIPRASPECTRA LED
I currently don't have a means of providing an accurate test for water parameters but will be getting some salifert and hanna test kits in the near future, but considering everything else is showing no signs of an issue, including my candy cane coral and my mushroom, my parameters don't seem to be out of whack.
What I'd like to know is if there's anything else I could be doing or am missing that would help the red monti recover from the bleaching, and to have the dunan coral finally open up again. Like, should I add a fourth fish to the mix? Here's the coral frags: