fraggleRocks
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I have had this war coral for almost a year. It has grown exponentially since I got it and has (had, up until recently...) about 400 eyes (had less than 50 when I got it...).
About a month ago the very top of it started bleaching, I thought something might have nicked it, as it was the outer tissue adjacent to an eye, so I shrugged it off and decided to just watch it.
Well, it has been slowly receding from the center outwards, and I thought maybe my blue hippo is was munching on the tissue (he has a proven taste for acans and trumpets...), as it was the top and would have been easiest for him to reach, but so far I have never seen him so much as pay attention to the war coral so idk.
Nothing too close to bother it. The bright pink chalice I have about a foot to the right of it is doing excellent, and the spongeodes above it are doing ok. I don't think it has anything to do with flow or lighting, since it has been in that same spot since I got it and was thriving until recently.
All prams in check except phosphates slightly high (always been that way... steady at .6) I don't want to risk adding GFO at this point and shock the system by dropping PO4 too quickly.
I had an alk issue over a month ago, it was too low. 7.1, and at the time calcium was 320.
I have been 2 part dosing more since then, and I still can't figure out how to stop the receding of the war coral and I really don't want to lose it if possible.
The alk swing last month caused an orange plate to die, 2 other plates were slightly affected but coming back with no problems. A huge purple plate colony was completely unaffected by the swing and still retained its purple color (go figure...) pink chalice and tyree blue chalices unaffected as well. Those are pretty much all my "indicator" corals if something is wrong in the tank.
Any ideas?
Lights are off atm I'll take a better pic when they come on.
About a month ago the very top of it started bleaching, I thought something might have nicked it, as it was the outer tissue adjacent to an eye, so I shrugged it off and decided to just watch it.
Well, it has been slowly receding from the center outwards, and I thought maybe my blue hippo is was munching on the tissue (he has a proven taste for acans and trumpets...), as it was the top and would have been easiest for him to reach, but so far I have never seen him so much as pay attention to the war coral so idk.
Nothing too close to bother it. The bright pink chalice I have about a foot to the right of it is doing excellent, and the spongeodes above it are doing ok. I don't think it has anything to do with flow or lighting, since it has been in that same spot since I got it and was thriving until recently.
All prams in check except phosphates slightly high (always been that way... steady at .6) I don't want to risk adding GFO at this point and shock the system by dropping PO4 too quickly.
I had an alk issue over a month ago, it was too low. 7.1, and at the time calcium was 320.
I have been 2 part dosing more since then, and I still can't figure out how to stop the receding of the war coral and I really don't want to lose it if possible.
The alk swing last month caused an orange plate to die, 2 other plates were slightly affected but coming back with no problems. A huge purple plate colony was completely unaffected by the swing and still retained its purple color (go figure...) pink chalice and tyree blue chalices unaffected as well. Those are pretty much all my "indicator" corals if something is wrong in the tank.
Any ideas?
Lights are off atm I'll take a better pic when they come on.
. ), I just doubt it has anything to do with the tissue necrosis of the war coral, as phosphates have always been this high, on a regular basis, and up until the random alk swing I had excellent growth throughout the tank. 
