I have a tongue coral that has been receeding for a month now. Every other coral is fine including the baby next to it. I see hermit crabs and snails on it pretty often. I feed him a few times a week, have dipped him in both seachem reef dip and coral rx. He lives in the middle of my sandbed in 90 gallon with 2 150w mh. Anybody have any ideas of how to get him back to health? Today I fed him in a small container and made sure he closed the food in before returning him to the tank. Could it be the crabs or snails?
tongue coral help
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removing me from my home everyday/sporadically to feed me at night in a little cup would most likely tick me off. so would dipping me, moving me, and hands constantly in my home would also tick me off or put me in a mood where i dont feel like growing. an unhappy coral is a dying coral in my opinion.
Is it bleaching or tissue loss? Do you have a fish that may be nipping on it? Big Hermits? or Crabs?
spot feeding should help, but not via removing him from the tank to do so. That just stresses the animal out. just use a plastic coke bottle with a tiny hole poked in the bottom to allow air to escape and set it down over the coral, so that your fish cant get in to grab the food. or use a turkey baster to blast it. and cover it.
theres a million things that could be the cause of coral loss. Its just part of the game.
have you kept it successfully up till now? is it a recent addition to the tank and gone downhill from there?
Is it bleaching or tissue loss? Do you have a fish that may be nipping on it? Big Hermits? or Crabs?
spot feeding should help, but not via removing him from the tank to do so. That just stresses the animal out. just use a plastic coke bottle with a tiny hole poked in the bottom to allow air to escape and set it down over the coral, so that your fish cant get in to grab the food. or use a turkey baster to blast it. and cover it.
theres a million things that could be the cause of coral loss. Its just part of the game.
have you kept it successfully up till now? is it a recent addition to the tank and gone downhill from there?
Nitrates are 15 phosphate .08, just added some gfo to get out phos, nitrates have risen from zero as the algae dyes. I have hermits, nassariis and turbo snails, domino damsel, tomato clown, and a blue dmasel. I haven't been able to put any other fish in due to the domino being agrssive. I feed a mix of foods including mysid, brine, ova roe, silversides, reef roids, coral frenzy, and others all soaked in amino acids. I alternate between foods to give them diversity.
