Maintaining coral health during fallow period?

[TheWackyWiz]

Hi All,

I've been treating my fish in QT for an Ich outbreak for about a month now and have noticed that my coral's seem to be unhappy. They have been staying closed more and more and my torch has noticeably shrunk.

Right now I have I couple zoas, a couple GSP, Pocillopora, Spongodes, Monti, a torch and a hammer.

I imagine it has something to do with lower nutrients so I've been adding in food every couple of days but wondering what else I should be keeping an eye on to make sure they survive the rest of the fallow period?

Thanks!

 

[brandon429]

That’ll do, nothing else required

can target feed them vs broadcast feeding and they’ll actually gain mass as you wait vs hold steady state. My reef has been fallow sixteen years, it’s all coral packed in and no fish.

 

[TheWackyWiz]

That’ll do, nothing else required

can target feed them vs broadcast feeding and they’ll actually gain mass as you wait vs hold steady state. My reef has been fallow sixteen years, it’s all coral packed in and no fish.

Yeah I think I'll ramp up my target feeding of them. Thanks for the advice! I'd love to see some pics of your reef!

 

[brandon429]

its only a fishbowl its an outcast of the reef community lol.