What’s wrong with my Garf Bonsai acro

[USMA36]

I can’t figure out what my issue is with this Garf Bonsai. It’s grey in color. Very few green polyps visible. I loved it from 300par down to 150 thinking it was getting blasted. That was 2 months ago. Still won’t color up. Seems to be getting slowly worse. 9 dkh nitrates 2-5 depending on the day Po4 .07. All my other acros are nice and colored up. Just this guy is giving me problems. Any thoughts?

 

[shakacuz]

temp? salinity? nitrate might be too low for that high of po4.

 

[USMA36]

Temp 78 salinity 1.025. Icp testing done every 6 weeks. Everything is where it should be.

 

[FMF0331]

Try blowing the coral with a turkey baster, see what comes off the Bonsai.
Hopefully it's not flatworms

 

[Glenner’sreef]

I feel your pain! That’s a tough one for me as well. Have one in my frag tank just holding on. Everything else is perfect. ?????

 

[USMA36]

I feel your pain! That’s a tough one for me as well. Have one in my frag tank just holding on. Everything else is perfect. ?????

Everything else looks great.

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Everything else looks great.

I was really encouraged a good number of years ago when one of my favorite reefing YouTube stars said he couldn’t grow an Oregon Tort for the life of him!!! I had one growing quite well. It taught me that every tank is different and you just have to find out what grows and thrives for you

 

[tautog83]

Check for bugsss

 

[USMA36]

No bugs that I can see. Looked with magnifying glass at night with flow off. Flesh looks okay to me.

 

[DanConnor]

Sometimes acros get ticked off and will just sulk for a long time. If all the other sps are doing fine, just stay the course. You might try fragging a piece and move it to another spot in the tank.

 

[SPS2020]

Is it still at 150 PAR? That seems very low to me. Mine is around 325 or so in high flow.

 

[brahm]

My bonsai are top of tank, I’d still dip it anyways it tends to be a aefw magnet