Trachy receding please help

[VintageReefer]

I’m surprised no one commented on the phosphate, unless I missed it. Listen, I am NOT one of those people that will look at .5 phosphate and scream it is the root of all your issues, not at all. I only make this comment since I saw it with my own showpiece Wellso.

I would work to bring it down. When my tank was at the tail end of its first year, my PO4 started drifting up. When it reached .8, I noticed recession on my Wellso. Not where you see it on edges, but rather at mouths. It was also shriveled for 3 weeks straight. I decided to use small amounts of passive GFO (Easy as a fine mesh bag in a high flow area). Monitored closely and it came down to 0.5 over 3 weeks. Wellso started looking much better. Purely anecdotal, but thought I would mention it.

I don’t dispute your experience but as you said it’s anecdotal.

Corals can take time to show stress. You can put them in ideal conditions and they can take weeks to recover.

While you were batting phosphates it could have been recovering from something completely unrelated

I don’t jump the gun to blame phosphates as I have had my tank hit .9 and 1.03 in the past and had zero impact on corals. I think phosphate is a misunderstood parameter and the only real danger is it bottoming out.

 

[Gone Reefin’]

I don’t dispute your experience but as you said it’s anecdotal.

Corals can take time to show stress. You can put them in ideal conditions and they can take weeks to recover.

While you were batting phosphates it could have been recovering from something completely unrelated

I don’t jump the gun to blame phosphates as I have had my tank hit .9 and 1.03 in the past and had zero impact on corals. I think phosphate is a misunderstood parameter and the only real danger is it bottoming out.

100% agree that it may have been unrelated. Also, agree with misunderstood PO4 as nothing else blinked at 0.8. IF I were to bring it to 0.8 again and I noticed similar recession, I would be suspicious. That is not an issue of late though, as I am trying to avoid it bottoming out (measuring 0.03 lately).