Frogspawn Help

bluebill

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I have a frogspawn in my DT that is not doing so good, and does not seem to be getting only better. Before I left for vacation it was looking beautiful, but when i came back home something was wrong. Only half of the coral was looking normal and the other half (two out of 5 heads) were looking shrunk and discolored. I made a big mistake by not having a timer on my light (had a friend turn them on every other day, but for only and hour or so). I figured that was the problem because the side or the coral that was facing sunlight from the door looked good and still continues to do so. It has been 3 weeks and I still see little improvement with the other side. I am giving 8 hrs of light a day. What are your thoughts on this? I am faily new at corals and have had them in my tank for about 7 months now. I have on candy cane(4 heads) numerous mushrooms and rics. xenia, and polys. Thank you.

75 gal 3lamp t5 (2 10,000k daylight and 1 blue antinic)
Ph 8.3
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Amonia 0
dkh 7 (low but doseing as of monday to bring it back up)
Ca off the carts on the high side
mag (do not have a test)
Phosphate (no test)
 
Water temp can sometimes have a negative impact on frogspawns. They don't care for temps up in the higher ranges, 82+ for long periods of time, can cause them to stress and develop a number of problems. Post a pic.

Requested a move to the LPS forum for you. ;)
 
Thank you. I had my water at 80, but once again i was not thinking and turned the heat in the house to 60 when we left, and when i got home i immediatly notice that my water temp was now at 74. I quickly got the temp back up, but do you think that was the cause? The other half looks good and no other problems with any of the other corals?
 
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