Empti
Community Member
My Duncans been the moodiest coral (~15ish corals mostly euphylia) in my whole tank (2 months old since swapping from old tank -params below) since I first got him, took ages to open. Lately once again he hasn't been opening but it was mostly one one side that had a bit of hair algae so I thought my new coral beauty angelfish may of been nibbling there. Past two days other side has opened less and I noticed on the side where I had previously used epoxy to secure him to rock there was skeletal bleaching. Today looking again the bleached section of skeleton had seemingly fallen off leaving a brown spot - with a brown hole of skeleton behind it where there was no epoxy. Thought on what may be the cause of this as I'm aware of tissue recession but to see skeleton fall away is confusing to me?
As a potential solution + wanted to anyways I was looking at fragging him into three frags (two branches + the base with the browning skeleton separate) would this accelerate decline of potentially the whole colony or save the branches from the skeleton recession.
Params
Alk 7.8
ph 8.2
Mg 1175 (increasing it now)
Ca 463
Salinity 1.024 (increasing to 1.026)
Ammonia/Nitrite/Phos 0
Nitrate 10
As a potential solution + wanted to anyways I was looking at fragging him into three frags (two branches + the base with the browning skeleton separate) would this accelerate decline of potentially the whole colony or save the branches from the skeleton recession.
Params
Alk 7.8
ph 8.2
Mg 1175 (increasing it now)
Ca 463
Salinity 1.024 (increasing to 1.026)
Ammonia/Nitrite/Phos 0
Nitrate 10
