digitata Care.

[Murminator]

My green digi turned stone white under pc's I wrote it off and left it for a few months in the bottom. For giggles I threw under my MH and it slowly turned brown then polyps started to appear and now it's a bright green thriving colony.

[OCDP]

yup, that's happened with me as well! I got myself a nice sized frag when I had PC's , it browned out and died... left it in the sand, then when I had my MH up I noticed this long brownish green stick in my sand... and now I have a nice piece of green digitata

[deep6er]

ok here are my paramaters

ammomia - nothing
nitrite's - nothing
nitrates - 0.2 - 0.3
calcium - ??? I dont know. Dont have a tester.
ph - 8.1

light - coralife 36" t5 42 watt

Tank size - 33 gal

Feeding
DT's phytoplankton
kent phytoplex
liquid life marine plankton

Water flow

3 power heads all facing diferent directions. Digitata is in a strong flow area but I could move it to a place were it gets more flow

[deep6er]

here is a pic of it

[OCDP]

Well your first problem is you don't know your calcium or alk. You need to know these paramaters in order to successfully keep SPS. Your lighting may not be completely up to par for it either.

My suggestions... get a calcium test kit ASAP and test your calcium, and adjust it by dosing. Same goes for alkalinity, both are equally important.

Move your digitata up to the highest point in the tank (recieving the most light possible) recieving good overall flow.

I also think you feed quite a bit of liquid foods.. I am sure that must in some way build up in your system. How often do you feed all 3?

[deep6er]

Calcium test I will get today
alk I forgot to post is at 4

Lighting I know I have to upgrade

feeding I mainlt feed with DT's but i may sometime use one of the other 2 insted
I do feed every 2 days

[OCDP]

Alright well I guess you should work on , A) Getting your calcium test kit and figuring out where your at there, then adjusting if necessary. B) Move the digitata to the highest point in your tank recieving the most light and C) make sure the entire coral is recieving a strong intermittent flow. I think this will ultimately lead to a healthy and happy coral, providing all other tank paramaters are indeed in check. SPS are fairly fussy and not as easy to keep as we'd like. But monti's are of the easier to keep SPS

Good luck!

[deep6er]

well thank you so much for all your help OCDP and merminator. Off to the pet store.

[rickjames]

Honestly the digitata looks not that bad. Did you just add it? It just looks like the polyps are deflated. Maybe there is a bit of tissue recession there, but not sure.
Mine looked like that when I first added it, and when a piece breaks off and falls into the shade it looks like that too. So I would say give it some more light, or if you just added it, don't worry about it. Digi's seem almost bulletproof most of the time.