Aussie Pocillopora

[Jeremy1988]

Anyone had issues with there Aussie Pocillopora growing great with great colors but tissue recession and turning white at the base and then eventually die off completley? Had mine for about 8 months now and it seems to continue to grow slowly but it does as mentioned above.

 

[Hentz]

While you describe your problem, it leaves us clueless on finding the reason.

You need to list us you parameters, such as:

Salinity
Calcium
Alkalinity
Magnesium
Potassium
Nitrates
Phosphates
Temperature

Has any of these fluctuated? What lighting are you running? Where in the tank is this Poci placed?

 

[reefwiser]

Yes what is your lighting ?


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[Jeremy1988]

I'll get back with you all tomorrow...I need to edit this post I believe, thanks.

 

[malate]

Experiencing the same with my purple Poci frag. Slight bleaching color at the base in one spot. But good poly extension. I think it's starting to grow a new branch but hard to tell w it's slow growth. All of my parameters are nominal. Anxious to hear of any pointers people can offer too.

 

[Jeremy1988]

Experiencing the same with my purple Poci frag. Slight bleaching color at the base in one spot. But good poly extension. I think it's starting to grow a new branch but hard to tell w it's slow growth. All of my parameters are nominal. Anxious to hear of any pointers people can offer too.

Thanks Malate...I should have been more clear...I know that everyone wants to sometimes really dig into the questions and help others, but I should have just said please give me a yes or no answer. You know as a reefer you have sometimes multiple combination of things that make things the way they are.

In short...I just got dosing pumps...however I found out I had a bad Salifert ALK set. I think at some point it went "Bad"...I use to always use Red Sea Coral Pro, the ALK starts off at 12.2 DKH according to the salt bucket instructions. Soooo...I used that for a while. Anyways, about 4 months ago I purchased this particular coral. I also have a meteor shower coral, birds nest, tri-color acro, alien eye and other LPS coral that do GREAT! Well I realized that my ALK...so I think had been EXTREMELY low...I'm not sure how low it got because the test kit kept saying it was around 10-11 DKH all the time...which to me made sense because of the high DKH in the salt...and I do water changes every 2 weeks almost on the day. Well on Black Friday I got a steal on a Red Sea Test kit that includes CAL, ALK, and MAG...so recently I tested my parameters with this test kit. To my amazement the ALK was way DOWN! I was pretty upset. I had a API test kit I bought earlier in the year and it matched the red sea as well, so I knew it was the Salferit bad test kit. Anyways...I kept wondering tho...my ALK couldn't have been that low because my corals looks great....all my corals grow VERY slow...but look "FAT" with lots of color...which I'v come to accept. I'v only had my tank up about 8 months now and keep my nitrates below 10 at all times. I have a Tunze ATO so my salienty stays constant. Water changes are always matched in salinity, and temp...obviously not ALK but now are. Well...thru all of this I failed to realize something so simple and I think the problem....I remember that about 2 months ago I put some THICK tonga branch rock in that corals area...and actually a piece of it extends over the coral. So I noticed that its actually right over a part of the "bleached" coral. Pretend a human is underneath something and trying to raise its arms to get from underneath to grab something...thats what this reminds me of. The coral has great color other wise and nice polyp extension....and like I said my other corals do great. I have a 90 gallon TALL tank. Its 36" when looking at it from the front. 2 feet tall and wide. I run 2 Kessil 360 Tuna Blues. I called Kessil before I put the lights on and asked them there recommendations for lighting while keeping in mind I wanted a MIXED coral tank. So thats the setting I run. I recently got the BRS Drews dosers and will run them in the next few days ....I personally feel like the coral is not suffering from RTN or STN...rather lack of light in a particular area. I actually for some reason never realized the TONGA branch rock was covering that part of the coral...just never noticed.