Reef Discussion

[Miller]

Last week or so my trachys have looked pretty sad
And ones starting to show skeleton
And getting worse day by day

Only thing I can think of is alk swings
I does each night but my alk is taking the most

Nitrates 0
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0
Phos 0
Alk 8-9
Ca 420
Mag 1400

Maybe to clean water?
My pink lobo also looks deflated and sad
Hammers are loving life and growing new heads
Morphs are great
Zoa's some are growing crazy and some haven't grown at all
Blastos doing well
Fluro green leather happy and healthy

 

[MagicJ]

Mine sulks occasionally for a day or so and then comes back better than ever.

What are you feeding them?

Do you have some photo's?

 

[Miller]

Ill get photos tonight
Tbh I was target feeding to begin with but stopped and now just use reef roids and lobster eggs frozen baby shrimp rofiters and a mix normally just feed that straight to the tank every second night
But last night I soked some prawn and squid in reef roids for half an hour and feed all 3 trachys and they puffed up and looked good so maybe they were starving and need more direct feeding
There under m/h 14000k globes for 6 hours a day and 4x t5 actinic for 10 if this helps

 

[Miller]

 

[Ian G]

These corals usually don't mind super clean water but in my experience they do need a little phosphate, as do many non sps corals. Having said that though I doubt your phosphate really is at zero, even with hannah testers it varies as while the testers are good, quality control on their regents is infamously bad.

I would definately just keep giving them a good feed and get that alk up.

Good luck mate.

 

[Agent M]

How long have you had them for? It could be something to do with where they are situated in the tank - there's not a spec of detritus that I can see so I'm wondering if the current is too strong for them? Also moving them up in the tank where they get more light won't hurt till you work out whats wrong, though I don't think thats the problem at all. Has the one on the left been dropped at all? You sometimes see that sort of tissue recession after they have gone butter side down.

 

[Agent M]

Actually after having another look I'm going to suggest its coral warfare...

 

[Agent M]

How have things turned out two weeks later @Miller?

 

[Miller]

Things aren't getting any better really
Slowly loosing hope for it to recover
The small ones doing great
Think maybe something's attacking it because I can't think of what els it could be
It's stopped taking food aswell

 

[Ian G]

It's very close to that hammer & hammers have stingers up to 200mm long that extend in the dark. I would move it.

 

[Miller]

Oh u know what I didn't even think of that
Ill move it tonight n see how it goes
Hopefully it comes back

 

[Ian G]

Keep the food up to it and good water quality. Good luck.

 

[Agent M]

I'm gonna be real technical/professional here and say I think the red one is attacking the green one :rofl

 

[Ian G]

Brendan,

I've bought sick & damaged trachy's from Mentone twice now, both worse than yours. With good light and a bit of feeding they both came really good. Admittedly I was lucky though.

Do you have any reefsafe 100% amino acid powder you can mix with coral food? It has to sit for an hour before feeding to infuse properly but I find it really helps corals, especially sick ones.

 

[aussieant32]

yer I have a trachy, it had a few bits of skeleton showing, after a month of doing what @ijg3956 said it is almost 100% better

 

[Miller]

I don't I will buy some this week tho if that's going to help
Thanks

 

[aussieant32]

just keep an eye on your skimmer :P Goes crazy!!

 

[Ian G]

I don't I will buy some this week tho if that's going to help
Thanks

If you can't get any quickly, you're welcome to call by & I'll give you some. It's great stuff and I now use it with all coral feed. Lasts a fair while too as you don't need much.

 

[aussieant32]

what food do you mix it with mate?

 

[Miller]

Trachy wouldn't harm another trachy would it?
Ill prob grab some on Thursday and give a go
I have been feeding reef roids and rofiters and lobster eggs
Also baby shrimp not sure what type they are but everything seems to enjoy them
Need to set up my new tank so everything has room to move