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So I am not having much success getting my corals to grow. So far I have a blasto (on which one head completely disintegrated but looks like a new one is growing), a hammer which looked great for a week but now is completely retracted and I only see skeleton, a frogspawn which seems to be doing ok, a duncan which looks ok as well, and a trumpet which has not really grown at all.
Parameters:
Alk: 8.7
Calcium: 450
Mag: 1400
Ph: 8-8.1
Nitrates: between 2 and 5
Have not tested phosphates
I don't feed my coral at this point, just thought I would see how they do without it, is it always this slow? I have everything on the sand bed minus the frogspawn at the moment.
Not great honestly. Not sure what I have to do to get some growth. My hammer died, I believe because I adjusted alkalinity too quickly. My Duncan looks good but no new heads, blasto doing ok, trumpet ok.
My frogspawn is now fully retracted into its skeleton thanks to some meddling from my peppermint shrimp.
On the plus side I do have coralline growing on my back wall as well as on my pumps and rocks so that should be a good sign right? Fish seem to be happy but I wish my fox face wasn’t so shy!
That’s weird. I added a birdnest, frogspawn, and a condy anemone to my 1 month old system. It’s been a month since I added them and they are all doing great. I also added a few favias, duncan, and more that I ordered from WWC. They all seem to be doing great. My alk was a little high at 11 and calcium low 340 when I tested last week. Also been adding magnesium. I’m going to check my parameters today. Also did you dip your coral?
Yes I dip all my corals in coral rx. I think I am just really lost about placement and flow. This is my first reef tank and I never know if my corals are in the right spot or not. I will need to post some pictures maybe you guys can help me out!