Sps issue

[Proteus]

As I expected some of my coral was a little po'd after a tank transfer. Colors have been coming back nicely in all but my shades of fall acro. It's browned out and no polyp extension since move.
My params are good. No nitrate no phosphate. Temp 78 +- . haven't tested ca alk mg. but I do a 5g WC every 5 days on 45ish gallon system. Everything is happy otherwise. Dose flatworm stop, sponge power, vitalizer.

Any idea what can help.

[Aquattro]

Leave it and pray to the reef gods. If everything else is doing well, the tank is fine, that coral is just ticked off. It will come back or it won't. Playing around with stuff could annoy the rest that are fine.

[ScubaSteve]

Hate to say it but: time. I have a couple of frags that I PO'd in various ways that caused them to brown out. One frag turned green after 3 months and now, a total of 9 months after it turning brown, it's finally getting it's brilliant red back. I have an electric pink milli with blue tips that browned out. A year later it's finally getting its colour back.

What I did find that helped colour back up was feeding my fish heavily while simultaneously vodka/mb7 dosing. Once I started feeding really heavy my frags suddenly spang back to life.

[xenon]

I would still test the big 3 (cal,alk,mag) just to be sure.

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Leave it and pray to the reef gods. If everything else is doing well, the tank is fine, that coral is just ticked off. It will come back or it won't. Playing around with stuff could annoy the rest that are fine.

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Hate to say it but: time. I have a couple of frags that I PO'd in various ways that caused them to brown out. One frag turned green after 3 months and now, a total of 9 months after it turning brown, it's finally getting it's brilliant red back. I have an electric pink milli with blue tips that browned out. A year later it's finally getting its colour back.

What I did find that helped colour back up was feeding my fish heavily while simultaneously vodka/mb7 dosing. Once I started feeding really heavy my frags suddenly spang back to life.

I figured as much. I would cry a little if I wipe out the rest trying to tinker with one. It's just a really nice piece lol. I am just really hoping to see some polyps soon

Originally Posted by xenon

I would still test the big 3 (cal,alk,mag) just to be sure.

I will test tomorrow. Just lazy ATM

Thank you

[fishytime]

I agree with Brad....there is one thing that we all need to realize and doing so will save a lot of us a lot of stress and hair pulling..... we take corals from the four corners of the earth.....different oceans and seas, different conditions.....we stuff them all into one tiny little box and expect them ALL to be happy....this IMHO is impossible.....personally, I have never run a tank where EVERY coral in the tank was 100% happy 100% of the time.....if 99% of the coral is doing great, then dont mess with your params....perhaps a re-location of Mr Grumpy is all that you need(like to my tank).....you said you were adding flatworm stop, maybe thats the culprit?

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by fishytime

.you said you were adding flatworm stop, maybe thats the culprit?

Been dosing it for a year. Never had issue. I'm sure it's just from the tank move. If it does get better you may very well find a piece in your tank

I guess this is what happens when you go from live rock to Marco. Need some time to mature

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by xenon

I would still test the big 3 (cal,alk,mag) just to be sure.

So I did my test and yes a little low.
CA: 400
KH: 5
MG: 1180

I brought them up over 2 days and mg still bring up a little as I hate the test. Lol

Originally Posted by fishytime
while the dense pieces are full of holes, all these holes are, is surface area.....the holes are almost solid and smooth.....good live rock is like a sponge, porous to the core, becoming "live" all the way through....

How does porus all the way to core help unless there's flow through the rock. And would coraline not block most of these pores.

Asking for info... Not to be ignorant

[xenon]

I am glad to see you water tested.

When my alk drops to 6dkh, my SPS start to STN so that makes perfect sense. You can safely increase 1.4dkh every 24hrs.

When mag is that low, my monti's loose their color.

At least you know what the issue is now.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by xenon

I am glad to see you water tested.

When my alk drops to 6dkh, my SPS start to STN so that makes perfect sense. You can safely increase 1.4dkh every 24hrs.

When mag is that low, my monti's loose their color.

At least you know what the issue is now.

his numbers are low but, if low numbers were the culprit, wouldnt it show up in all his corals, not just one?.....I guess the same could be said for any suspected cause......this is what makes dispensing advice so difficult....everyone's system is different.....being that it is only one coral we are talking about, I would think that it has more to do with the lighting or flow requirements for that individual coral or perhaps it's proximity to another coral.....