Magician paly is upset

[dimitri92]

My magician paly in one night went full umbrella mode. And its little skirts are very tiny. I woke up to my ATO adding too much to my tank. 2.5 gallons over night

Has been doing good since I got it last month.

Only changes are I added two new zoas and a few frags to my tank yesterday after dipping them in coralrx.

Tank parameters:

Alk- 8.5
Ca- 410
Mg- 1480-1500
Ph-8.2
Phosphate- .04
Nitrate - 5-10

Salinity- my ATO added an extra 2 gallons of fresh water while I was asleep last night. Dropped it from 1.025 to 1.024. I corrected this and it is now back to 1.025. I do not think that a smal salinity swing was too much to stress it out. I changed out 3 gallons of water with 1.026 water to fix this problem


All other corals were not affected by the extra fresh water addition or whatever is upsetting my paly. I did a quick 5 min dip in lugols iodine to help it. Seemed to be the least invasive thing I could do, it is now in low light and lower flow while I keep an eye on it.

 

[dimitri92]

One photo from yesterday, one from today. I really don’t think a pest could do this from the time the lights went out at 9 pm to this morning either.

 

[dimitri92]

I noticed a Asternia starfish was on a new polyp a few days after this post. I Removed it and waited. It’s been two weeks and skirts are growing back.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Magicians are Zoanthus gigantus, not Palythoa btw