Greetings everyone, I am having trouble with my purple stylo which I have had in the tank for 2 months. It was given to me as a free tester SPS coral by the cool guys at Timeless Corals. My tank is 9 months old this month and I was not sure if it was ready for SPS yet so they gave me one to test out. It was doing great the first 2 months, seemed fat and happy with some new growth to then the past few weeks it shows STN on the shady side. I have it placed 2/3 up getting good par light from XR5 and good flow from my MP40. My water parameters have been fairly stabil with alk 8.1 to 8.4. I do dose 2.5ml of alk daily to keep the number consistent. The other numbers are listed below:
Temp 77.3
Cal 470
Nitrate 10.4
Phos .15
Salinity 1.026
Mag 1430
The only thing that has been in flux was phospahate. It spiked a little while cleaning the sandbed but has been coming down slowly. I recently added chaeto to my fuge to help keep my nitrate and phosphate numbers consistent. All the other corals are LPS and some softs that seem to be doing ok. I run 2 XR15 lights for 10 hours on the AB plus setting at 50% schedule so about 40% intensity. I was hoping to have success with this and maybe try a green bali slimer next. I am in the process of setting up a dosing system also but my calcium stays good with water changes. Only alk needs dosing presently. I feed Red Sea AB plus 3x per week and oyster feast 1-2x per week. I have 9 fish in my tank which get fed pellets and frozen 3x per day. I have also started dosing chaeto gro to supplement trace elements the fuge might be using. Tank is pretty clean with only a low to moderate amount of GHA presently.
Any thoughts on what I might try to save my stylo?
Temp 77.3
Cal 470
Nitrate 10.4
Phos .15
Salinity 1.026
Mag 1430
The only thing that has been in flux was phospahate. It spiked a little while cleaning the sandbed but has been coming down slowly. I recently added chaeto to my fuge to help keep my nitrate and phosphate numbers consistent. All the other corals are LPS and some softs that seem to be doing ok. I run 2 XR15 lights for 10 hours on the AB plus setting at 50% schedule so about 40% intensity. I was hoping to have success with this and maybe try a green bali slimer next. I am in the process of setting up a dosing system also but my calcium stays good with water changes. Only alk needs dosing presently. I feed Red Sea AB plus 3x per week and oyster feast 1-2x per week. I have 9 fish in my tank which get fed pellets and frozen 3x per day. I have also started dosing chaeto gro to supplement trace elements the fuge might be using. Tank is pretty clean with only a low to moderate amount of GHA presently.
Any thoughts on what I might try to save my stylo?