help please! acro bleaching tips?

[Ralph ATL]

What should I do? Will they make it? Could they make it? Should I wait? Should I get them out of the tank? What else could I do? Thanks!



The Bottlebrush was put in the tank on July 5 & the Green Stag was put in June 25. They are getting worse! I was told to "cut the tips" off of the ones that appeared to be browning from Algae, so I cut about 7 tips off the green stag.

Salt is at .36 Flow is 3700 GPH.



July 15 Cal 380/ Alk 3.31/ phosphate .03/ temp 80
17 all the same as the 15th
19 Cal 410/ Alk 4.0/ Phos .03/ temp 80
20 Cal 420/ Alk 3.66/ Phos .03/ temp 80
21 Cal 420/ Alk 3.20/ Phos .03/ temp 80
22 Cal 420/ Alk 3.31/ Phos .03/ temp 80
23 Cal 420/ Alk 3.20/ Phos .03/ temp 80
24 Cal 425/ Alk 3.43/ Phos .03/ temp 80
25 Cal 420/ Alk 3.43/ Phos <.03/ temp 80
26 Cal 420/ Alk 3.20/ Phos <.03/ temp 80
July 27 Cal 415/ Alk 3.09/ Phos <.03/ temp 80



(I raised my calcium to 420, and I am trying to keep my Alk at 3.09)

I have a Tunze 6060, Seio 820, & Seio 620 also it's a 55 gallon Reef, AGA mega-flow II sump, ASM G-2 Skimmer, 2 x 150 HQI & LED, small fuge, 65 #LR, numerous SPS, 1 Pagoda, Clowns, 7 Chomis, Gamma, Tailbot, Gobie, & ywg

Lights are on 10 hours. 2 hour drip acclimation.

 

[Michael Mota]

did you acclimate the corals to your lighting system? also i think the salinity may be a bit high if I am reading this right. try to keep it at 1.025 specific gravity. Also i would get the temp down to 79*f if possible. One more thing is try to get the phosphated lower. How are the ammo nitrites and nitrates?

 

[Ralph ATL]

trates, trites, ammonia are all 0.
I bought them at a lfs, and they had the acros under a rotating 400 MH bulb, so I figured with my much lowered par levels of my 2x150 MH bulbs, the corals didn't need any light acclimation. Am I wrong?

 

[Ralph ATL]

BUMP

 

[Michael Mota]

I for one always acclimate my new corals to my lighting to help prevent stress on them. I am not saying this is the problem. I for one have no idea besides water parameters or maybe some type of bug on the corals. I do hope you can find the issue and correct it. If I were you I would start with all the water parameters and check them twice and if anything is off get them to where they should be and then go from there. Sorry I can not be of More help.

 

[Ralph ATL]

Thanks, but as you can see, I have been checking my parameters daily! Maybe it is the lack of light acclimation, however, it doesn't make sense to me! But I am new!

 

[Michael Mota]

Man this hobby can be difficult at times. Maybe some one with a better idea of whats going on here can help you out or will chime in with some advice.
Take care

 

[Ralph ATL]

bump

 

[Philwd]

This is just a wild guess here but I noticed you are running Rowa. I have a Chips acro that started doing the same thing your acros are doing. The person who gave it to me said Chips were sort of canaries wrt using too much iron based po4 removers. Maybe its that. Maybe your acros are sensitive to rowa.

BTW in my case I did not frag the tips even though algea had started growing. Just used a turkey baster to blow the tips off and all grew back over a months period. In fact I've never lost a tip that had algae.

 

[Ralph ATL]

Thanks for the info!