Plate coral dying!!!!

[HydroJ]

This orange plate coral is dying. I don’t know how to save it. Is it still possible to bring it back? Everything else in the tank looks great, I think.

I know that when plates die, they can reproduce, but does this still apply when the mother colony is still quite small?

 

[KrisReef]

The plate doesn’t look too bad but it needs to be kept out of reach of the other corals that put out sweeper tentacles to kill their neighbors.

 

[HydroJ]

The plate doesn’t look too bad but it needs to be kept out of reach of the other corals that put out sweeper tentacles to kill their neighbors.

Yeah, I did put them away from other coral

 

[JoJosReef]

Need to get rid of the algae on its skeleton. What are you feeding it and how often? What kind of flow is it under? Lights? I see it is next to a trachy, so presumably not blasting it with light and flow. How long have you had the plate? How old is the tank? What are nitrates and phosphates (and Alk) like?

 

[braaap]

Blast the algae off. Honestly most plate corals will do fine with lots of flow and lots of light. Mine are in over 300 PAR and very heavy flow and they love it.

 

[HydroJ]

We need to get rid of the algae on its skeleton. What are you feeding it, and how often? What kind of flow is it under? Lights? I see it is next to a trachy, so presumably not blasting it with light and flow. How long have you had the plate? How old is the tank? What are nitrates and phosphates (and Alk) like?

Feeding is a mixture of reef roids, reef blizzard-L, and trope Marin phyton once per week. Medium flow, medium light (Ai Prime 16 max at 60 percent blue, 30 percent whites.) The orange plate, which I only had for 6 months, does not look too happy initially. The purple plate 3 years old and doing super well. The tank is a 22-gallon AIO and is 2 years old. I do not test n and p often. Meanly judge it by the look of the coral.

Kh 8.2
Mg 1300
Ca 390
Dosing AFR and KH booster.

 

[HydroJ]

Blast the algae off. Honestly most plate corals will do fine with lots of flow and lots of light. Mine are in over 300 PAR and very heavy flow and they love it.

It was at a place with a high flow; I was trying to move it to see if it could do better.

 

[JoJosReef]

If it were me, I would move that plate to the sand bed, off the frag plug, blast off the algae or, if it is stubborn, carefully scrape/pick it off, and feed the plate something like a medium TDO pellet per day in addition to the broadcast food.

 

[HydroJ]

If it were me, I would move that plate to the sand bed, off the frag plug, blast off the algae or, if it is stubborn, carefully scrape/pick it off, and feed the plate something like a medium TDO pellet per day in addition to the broadcast food.

I will try it!

 

[NCsalt]

My orange plate moves when its not happy. When mine shrinks up for a bit i feed it more. And look to see what could be irritating it.