Need some help..

[zchauvin]

Alright guys, I've done as much research and as many searches as I can and I am seeing a lot of mixed answers and I have very little knowledge of what I am doing. I bought four sps frags from my lfs as I'm trying to transfer my tank over to sps instead of lps. I bought a red planet frag that had lots of green on entire colony, grown under radion led. The green tells me it was under lower par, the other three all came from a separate tank also under radions. The mother colonies were between 2 and 14 inches below the water line. The pieces are blue millepora, green slimer, and orange passion. I put the red planet towards the top of my tank, first day or so it was fine then I upped my light intensity and it completely browned out. No polyp extension and looked bad, today it is starting to STN and I'm sure I'll lose it. The other three are fine but the milli and green slimer are starting to get brown as well, the only thing still holding color and looking decent is the orange passion.

10g Nuvo Fusion
Kessil 160 set at approx 30% intensity - 12" above water.
Chemipure blue

Nitrates - <2 (red sea)
Phosphate - 0.00 (Hannah)
Calcium - 430
Alk - 8.4
Mag - N/A
Sg - 1.026

Using Fritz salt, tank is kept at 78 degrees. When I saw how low the nutrients were I began dosing Red sea Part A and B as well as feeding reef frenzy eod. I've got two banner cardinals that I feed mysis once a day.

 

[zchauvin]

After two days with reef frenzy, parts A and B along side increased feedings for fish my phosphates as of just now are still at 0.00

 

[Rickyb1982]

Sometimes you need to start them in low light and work your way up with them !! That's what I learned the hard way lol

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

how good is the flow? the po4 is low and you may be stripping it too fast from that little bit of water. are you running an ato? do you test for PH swings? Are you using an auto doser?
I don't think they are getting brown jelly, I don't think they can, if they are its a bacterial infection in the tank and you'll need to dip with an antiseptic..

 

[Rickyb1982]

My red planet started off green as well until I moved it down a little and now it's red

 

[zchauvin]

No not brown jelly, they are just losing color. Not as bad as the red planet though, flow is good. I have a jabao sw-2 pulsing towards them. Good movement from the polyps that are out. I do use an ATO that keeps salinity stable, I do not test for ph. No auto doser as my weekly water changes have been keeping everything in line.

 

[Rickyb1982]

This is a frag of my red planet from when I cut it off the rock and it's higher up in my frag tank !!

 

[Rickyb1982]

This is the mother colony about 3/4 of the way up in my 300 gallon

 

[zchauvin]

Red planet is the second brown frag. Milli is more brown than when purchased, and you can see the browning of the slimer.

 

[Rickyb1982]

I've read the same thing that for sps it is good to have some phosphates and nitrates !! Some run there phosphates at 2-4ppm and nitrates at 5-10 ppm

 

[zchauvin]

I removed the huge bag of chemipure blue that I was sold and will see if I am get po4 and no3 up

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

it strait up could be stress from being moved.
A change in flow is quite literally a change in how they breath.

 

[zchauvin]

it strait up could be stress from being moved.
A change in flow is quite literally a change in how they breath.

Would this cause the red planet to stn

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Would this cause the red planet to stn

Heck yea.
It's really tough to know imo exactly how health a coral really is by looking. Most folks say oh it's a sudden stn but after talking to them the parameters or flow or whatever has Ben not that great for a while so it's not really all that sudden.

Not sure how long they had be fragged of is maybe they got some glue on them. Its really hard to say all I can see are this pics and parameters.

The rock in the new tank doesn't look new but maybe it's just not settled in yet.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

It's also extremely difficult to keep SPS in a small nano, you have to really stay on top of every parameter including Magnesium. You probably could get away with doing nothing but water changes instead of dosing anything.
For sure, your No3 and Po4 is too low, Feed them bad boys! And stop messing with them. Leave them alone and focus on keeping stable parameters including Light Flow temp and No3