Trouble growing coral

[Josephimo]

Hello!
I’ve been having trouble getting my corals to grow. I’ve lost more polyps than I’ve grown. Half my polyps are half closed or not even open so I recognize something is wrong. Is there anyone with any good guesses as to why? Thanks in advance!
pH 8.0
NO3 7-10 ppm
Alkalinity 9 dKH
I dose with All For Reef and have relatively high flow

 

[TX_REEF]

what's your phosphate? tank size and age? What are you doing for flow specifically? How about lighting?

 

[Subsea]

Welcome to the addiction. I have been hooked for > 50 years.

Your tank is relatively new at 1 month. Depending on the quality of your live rock, you may have gone thru the nitrogen cycle. However, there are many more cycles beside nitrogen fixation bacteria.

What polyps are dying? Would you list the corals in your system?

Would you post a full tank shot with white light.

Also, better describe how you set tank up and what is your present on going maintenance schedule. What is your lighting schedule?

With a 10G tank, I suggest you do several 25% water changes.

Consider started a tank journal where detailed information is in one place.

 

[Josephimo]

Welcome to the addiction. I have been hooked for > 50 years.

Your tank is relatively new at 1 month. Depending on the quality of your live rock, you may have gone thru the nitrogen cycle. However, there are many more cycles beside nitrogen fixation bacteria.

What polyps are dying? Would you list the corals in your system?

Would you post a full tank shot with white light.

Also, better describe how you set tank up and what is your present on going maintenance schedule. What is your lighting schedule?

With a 10G tank, I suggest you do several 25% water changes.

Consider started a tank journal where detailed information is in one place.

I’ve had the tank for 4 months but only got cespitularia, gsp, and zoanthids 2 months ago.
The only coral that actually really was dying was gsp but it’s kinda recovered since I added a power head for my flow.
Currently I add in the recommended all for reef every day and change the tank every 2 weeks. I feed once every 2 days and clean the walls every 2-3 days depending on how dirty it is. Attached is the pic of the tank with white light.

 

[Subsea]

“Currently I add in the recommended all for reef every day and change the tank every 2 weeks“

What does change the tank every 2 weeks mean?

“Cespitularia prefer moderate to high water movement. The flow should be enough to gently sway the coral, but not so strong that it's blown around“

I have not found GSP to require high flow.

 

[Josephimo]

I do a 20-30% water change every 2 weeks.
I put the cespitualria in an area with higher flow and it slightly sways. The gsp Is in an area with less flow but still enough for it to get some movement.

 

[Subsea]

I do a 20-30% water change every 2 weeks.
I put the cespitualria in an area with higher flow and it slightly sways. The gsp Is in an area with less flow but still enough for it to get some movement.

Your system looks healthy to me. How long have you been Reefing?

 

[FUNGI]

IMO, with your WC's, you dont need to dose anything......,

 

[Josephimo]

I started this year. These are my first corals. I get it looks healthy but some of the polyps just aren’t opening and I’ve recorded a whole one new zoa polyp as total growth. No new capitularia stalks or any encrusting of rock for gsp in 2 full months

 

[TX_REEF]

IMO, with your WC's, you dont need to dose anything......,

agreed no need to dose on that size system with such a light coral load and regular water changes - none of the corals you have are very high demand for dosing.

 

[Josephimo]

agreed no need to dose on that size system with such a light coral load and regular water changes - none of the corals you have are very high demand for dosing.

Then could I be overdosing? Is that a thing?

 

[Shatodavis]

Then could I be overdosing? Is that a thing?

yes but not in the way youre thinking. it would cause your nitrates/Phosphates to rise. I would suggest feeding more often and stop dosing. Whats your lighting like? Other than that give it time to do it thing.

 

[FUNGI]

For teh GSP's, I would put a little higher flow if you want to spread....indirect flow....they'll love it

 

[Josephimo]

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yes but not in the way youre thinking. it would cause your nitrates/Phosphates to rise. I would suggest feeding more often and stop dosing. Whats your lighting like? Other than that give it time to do it thing.

I don’t know the specifics of my lighting but I put more blues in it because I found it slows down algae growth more.
I guess the move is to wait it out then from what I’ve been hearing.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

What intensity is the light on? What type of light is it?