Coral Question

[Glennrf38]

Anyone have any ideas? I just lost another head today............

[Myka]

Sorry I asked you those questions, which you answered, and then I never replied again! My bad.

I use a cheap plastic hydrometer. I just check it once every six months with a refractometer (I would do it more often, but I have yet to buy a refractometer), although it has never changed in the 8 years I've had it. Did you have yours calibrated yet? Have you started to raise your specific gravity up?

Take a quick read through the Guides in my signature; particularly the Getting Started one, and the Parameters one. See if you can pinpoint anything on your own from there. Your calcium and magnesium are both a bit "off", but I can't see either being a real cause for concern.

I'm wondering more on your placement of the corals and what water flow you're placing them into??

On a side note...I used to lose Euphyllias all the time. I couldn't keep them alive. some would live for 12-24 hours, some would live a couple weeks. I never changed anything in my tank, but one day I added a Euphyllia that survived, and never looked back. Now I have a Euphyllia forest.

[Glennrf38]

I have the refractometer now so my salinity is right on. I have put individual heads in different areas, same thing. My anemone is doing well, my clam is doing well. Fish are all fine. GSP,clove polyps all fine. I am stumped and frustrated.

[gbeef]

I would check for flow also , a single head dying is weird. Is somthing eating it perhapes? I had a bicolor blenny eat my frog spawn.

[Glennrf38]

Originally Posted by gbeef

I would check for flow also , a single head dying is weird. Is somthing eating it perhapes? I had a bicolor blenny eat my frog spawn.

It's not just a single head. 2 of the 3 heads have bought the farm now and the last one isn't doing well. I even split the heads and put them in different areas of the tank. This morning I turned off one of my powerheads to see if that will help.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Have you replaced the test kits? I found as someone else mentioned that there can be a huge difference in readings between test kits. I like the salifert kits but I haven't tried elios. I'd suspect some worm or a crab or even a fish if your water tests out. Clams like higher nitrates, anenome don't (usually) frogspawn should be in the middle, and for what it's worth my frogspawn survived some serious neglect at my hand that killed almost all the sps in my tank so again I'm suspecting some worm, crab or fish. Watch your tank at night, flashlight and some popcorn and keep an eye on the last remaining head. One final thought, do you feed your frogspawn? Try feeding it directly, some mysis shrimp for example, just one or two and see how that goes. Perhaps it's not getting enough food.

Douglas

[Glennrf38]

Test kits are new and Kevin@ Red Coral tested and confirmed my readings. The heads are not getting eaten, they look like they are just sliding off. Forgot to mention, the heads seem to shrink up tiny tiny. They never seem to inflate.