Getting worried about my Candy Cane, it is receding and starting to turn a brown color in the spots where the skeleton is exposed. I would just like to know if there is anything I can do to make it have a better chance of recovery. Parameters have been fairly stable for the past 2 months and lighting/placement havent changed since it was first introduced.
How I got to this point is I had GHA on the stalk of it, I used watered down peroxide and a q-tip to put on the stalk avoiding the corals flesh as much as possible. The GHA disappeared but it started to show exposed skeleton where the two heads were splitting. Now about a month later the polyps havent extended at all like they initially did and now the opposite side of the polyp is receding and changing color. I can see small forms of algae on the initial exposed skeleton.
Current actions I have been doing are dosing vodka to lower my Nitrates and using Phosban to remove Phosphates from the tank. Those two parameters were way too high (Nitrate 40 ppm and PO4 .25 ppm).
Parameters:
Ca: 460 ppm
Alk: 8.6
Mg: 1280 ppm
Nitrate: 15 ppm
Phosphate: .03 ppm
Thanks in advance!
How I got to this point is I had GHA on the stalk of it, I used watered down peroxide and a q-tip to put on the stalk avoiding the corals flesh as much as possible. The GHA disappeared but it started to show exposed skeleton where the two heads were splitting. Now about a month later the polyps havent extended at all like they initially did and now the opposite side of the polyp is receding and changing color. I can see small forms of algae on the initial exposed skeleton.
Current actions I have been doing are dosing vodka to lower my Nitrates and using Phosban to remove Phosphates from the tank. Those two parameters were way too high (Nitrate 40 ppm and PO4 .25 ppm).
Parameters:
Ca: 460 ppm
Alk: 8.6
Mg: 1280 ppm
Nitrate: 15 ppm
Phosphate: .03 ppm
Thanks in advance!