Coral HELP!

[pearcedamon]

I have a nine-month old Biocube 14. In it I have a clown and two damsels, a cleaner shrimp and a coral banded shrimp, as well as a few hermits and turbos. I added a button polyp four months ago and it has done well. I added a Kenya Tree three months ago and it has done well off and on. About a month ago I added a toadstool polyp. It did well for a few days and then the tentacles disappeared and it began to shrivel. After two weeks of this I took a water sample to my LFS to be checked. My water parameters were great except for calcium, which was a little low. I got bottles of SeaChem Reef Fusion 1 and 2 and added a half-dose of each to my tank to boost the calcium. The next day the toadstool was laying completely over and both my button polyps and kenya tree looked terrible. Two days later they're not any better. I have read that the toadstool will release toxins when it's sick or dying. It is turning a little green at the base. Should I go ahead a take it out of the tank before it kills my other corals? Any advice would be helpful.

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

Very few soft corals need any real amount of calcium. Many leather corals like toadstools and capnella do however close up for extended periods. Its totally normal but usually caused by some sort of irritant. Possibly too much calcium. Who knows. My guess would still be a water parameter issue of some sort. I wouldn't touch any of the corals. Start by getting a better idea what you parameters are first. Then run some sort of activated carbon and or a poly filter along with regular water changes to remove any toxins or contaminants in your tank water. Best of luck.

 

[Stryk9]

Are you sure your Kenya tree isn't actually a colt coral? Colt corals should not be housed with sinularia or sarcophyton which include your toadstool.. Are you running carbon? If it isn't a colt then I don't know