Received brain coral

[sepulvd]

I received a brain coral am pretty sure it's bleached but I got it for free so my goal is to rehab it. Any help would be appreciated

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[GimpyFin]

Looks pretty brown, it may not have been getting adequate light.

 

[Sk8r]

Start it on the bottom, and raise it a little every few days until it stops looking happy, then lower it back down a notch.
YOur water chemistry should be 1.024 salinity, 79 temperature, 1350 magnesium, 8.3 dkh alkalinity, 420 calcium. Salifert makes the tests I use. Kent supplements (Tech M for mag, dkh buffer for alk; Turbo calcium for calcium). Your fish will like those readings too. So will most every coral.

 

[sepulvd]

I put it on the bottom yesterday my Sg is at 1.025 and temp is 78 calcium is at 400 and ph is at 8.4

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[Sk8r]

calcium is 20 points low---significant. Ph is fairly irrelevant. Your magnesium is possibly low, letting calcium and alk fall. It's fairly critical to get this up within the next couple of days. If you are having to raise magnesium, raise it first, then raise alkalinity to 8.3 if lower than that, and lastly raise calcium to 420 or a bit better. You need the corresponding supplements, dose, wait 8 hours and test, and do not proceed to the next element until the first element is up to snuff. It's an interrelated set of elements and if mg isn't up where it belongs you can add the others for days on end and get nowhere good. first the mg, then the buffer, then the calcium.
What I use: Salifert tests for magnesium, dkh alkalinity, calcium; and Kent supplements for doses---Tech-M for magnesium (mg is proper abbreviation); DKH Buffer for alkalinity; and Turbo Calcium for calcium. Once the corals really start eating, there are ways to automate this, but it would be overkill with just one coral.
Good luck!

 

[Animagus]

Just out of curiosity, is that what's left of a brain coral or is that the whole thing? Is it attached to the rock? It kind of reminds me of one of those Caribbean Rose corals. These often hitchhike their way in on pieces of live rock sometimes.

 

[sepulvd]

It's the whole thing and it's attached to a price liverock

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[sepulvd]

Skater. Thanks for the help most likely I will do a water change first before I start dosing since it's been a week since my last water change. The tank is a 60g with a 20g sump. I do 10g water changes once a week and most of the time my numbers are around what you recommended. Also the rest of my corals are doing incredible including frogspawn and pavona and the basic corals like kenya,mushroom and zoas

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[sepulvd]

Just to see where the numbers are after

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