Any idea whats going on with my lobo coral?

[shieldsy_]

Hi All,

We bought this lobo coral 3 days ago. When we bought it, it was a really nice purple and orange colour. Ever since we put it in our tank it has looked like this. Anyone have any idea what could we wrong?

Tank params:
PH 8.4
Ammonia: 0.25 (just did a water change to try bring this down)
NItrite and nitrate: both 0
Calc: 380 (have just dosed to bring this up)
Phosphate: 0

We have an AI prime light which is on 8 hours per day.

Thank you

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[ali1]

What is your alk?

Any amount of ammonia means dead coral.

 

[SycoCell]

Hard to tell from photos, but what's wrong with it to you? Looks pretty good to me. Depending what time of the day it is - or what my lights are doing - my Lobo's do funny things. See if you can feed him? Mine react almost instantly to frozen shrimp chunks.

 

[reefling]

Hi All,

We bought this lobo coral 3 days ago. When we bought it, it was a really nice purple and orange colour. Ever since we put it in our tank it has looked like this. Anyone have any idea what could we wrong?

Tank params:
PH 8.4
Ammonia: 0.25 (just did a water change to try bring this down)
NItrite and nitrate: both 0
Calc: 380 (have just dosed to bring this up)
Phosphate: 0

We have an AI prime light which is on 8 hours per day.

Thank you

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Alkalinity matters more than calcium. Magnesium is important too. All should be at least 7 dkh and mag is ideally 1300

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[ali1]

Hard to tell from photos, but what's wrong with it to you? Looks pretty good to me. Depending what time of the day it is - or what my lights are doing - my Lobo's do funny things. See if you can feed him? Mine react almost instantly to frozen shrimp chunks.

Lobo is all skeleton, how does that look good?

 

[Tripod1404]

Any idea whats going on with my lobo coral?

Like pointed before any ammonia would be detrimental for a sensitive corals like lobos. If there is ammonia, it's quite likely that there is also nitrite. Also what test kit you used to measure nitrite, nitrate and phosphate, I doubt those can really be zero (since there is still ammonia), unless you have no fish and never feed the tank.

So I would start with checking alkalinity, magnesium. And cross check the accuracy of nitrate nitrite and phosphate test kits.


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[sirclintler]

Possible your shrimp found a new buddy?