Need advices on saving the Chalice coral please

[chan3600]

I got a Chalice coral from my local fish store two weeks ago. The staff said Chalice coral is easy, so I got it home. Initially, I placed it in my new tank at 40 to 60 PAR location. During the first week, it started to brown. I assumed it wasn’t getting enough light, so I moved it to my old tank with higher light around 80 to 100 location — in the same area where another Chalice coral has been thriving for a year. After another week, its condition worsened. Could I still save it? I have no idea what the problem is. Please give me some advices. Thanks.

I included the picture I took from LFS, and how it looks like now.

New Tank Parameter
Placement 40 to 60 PAR
KH 9
Mg 1260
Ca 420
No3 20 ppm
Po4 0.064 ppm

Old Tank
Placement 80 to 100 PAR
KH10
Mg 1400
Ca 440
No3 5 ppm
Po4 0.024 ppm

 

[tbrown]

It looks rough but chalice corals are fairly resilient.

My Raja Rampage (similar if not the same) is about 100 - 125 par, medium flow.

Alk is 10.4
Magnesium 1450
Calcium 520
PO4 0.83
Nitrates 23

If it was struggling to begin with it might just need some time to recover. With the flesh peeling like the picture appears to be, I'd be concerned it got an infection or something and it might not recover without a good dip like KFC or something.

@F i s h y or @MERKEY would an iodine bath help a chalice?

 

[chan3600]

It looks rough but chalice corals are fairly resilient.

My Raja Rampage (similar if not the same) is about 100 - 125 par, medium flow.

Alk is 10.4
Magnesium 1450
Calcium 520
PO4 0.83
Nitrates 23

If it was struggling to begin with it might just need some time to recover. With the flesh peeling like the picture appears to be, I'd be concerned it got an infection or something and it might not recover without a good dip like KFC or something.

@F i s h y or @MERKEY would an iodine bath help a chalice?

Thank you. I have ReVive coral Cleaner and Coral RX on hand. Do you think dipping with those would help?

 

[MERKEY]

It looks rough but chalice corals are fairly resilient.

My Raja Rampage (similar if not the same) is about 100 - 125 par, medium flow.

Alk is 10.4
Magnesium 1450
Calcium 520
PO4 0.83
Nitrates 23

If it was struggling to begin with it might just need some time to recover. With the flesh peeling like the picture appears to be, I'd be concerned it got an infection or something and it might not recover without a good dip like KFC or something.

@F i s h y or @MERKEY would an iodine bath help a chalice?

Always worth it to try!

Looks pretty rough but if it was struggling from the start it may be on its way out :(

Keep water consistent/stable for its healing.

 

[MERKEY]

Thank you. I have ReVive coral Cleaner and Coral RX on hand. Do you think dipping with those would help?

Revive might be good to add to bath but coral rx is more for pests and might hurt more than help in this application.

 

[chan3600]

Revive might be good to add to bath but coral rx is more for pests and might hurt more than help in this application.

Thanks, I will take a short bath for it. Gonna try it out.

 

[chan3600]

The one from the image was gone. And, I got a new one recently. And, I found that I gave too much PAR (around 80 to 100 PAR) for it before. I start acclimating at 10 PAR to 30 PAR level for the new one. It works better this time.