Algae on coral?

[s70]

Is this just algae and is it a big deal?


just lost all my Zoas over the last 3 weeks and my wife kept telling me it looked like there was algae on them. Don’t want to lose this one.

been battling 0 nutrients.
Nitrates are up to 1.2 over the last 3 days. I am dosing tree stump remover slowly.

 

[reeftivo]

that area with algae is dead. the coral still may pull through though. bubble corals are fairly resilient in my experience.

keep them in lower flow areas and post your water parameters. if your trying to bring up nitrates then go slow. like 0.5 to 1ppm in 24hrs

need:
sg
pH
PO4
NO3
alk
temp etc..

 

[reeftivo]

that area with algae is dead. the coral still may pull through though. bubble corals are fairly resilient in my experience.

keep them in lower flow areas and post your water parameters. if your trying to bring up nitrates then go slow. like 0.5 to 1ppm in 24hrs

need:
sg
pH
PO4
NO3
alk
temp etc..

Is this just algae and is it a big deal?


just lost all my Zoas over the last 3 weeks and my wife kept telling me it looked like there was algae on them. Don’t want to lose this one.

been battling 0 nutrients.
Nitrates are up to 1.2 over the last 3 days. I am dosing tree stump remover slowly.

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for boosting nitrates i believe neonitro or the fluorish products are better.

stump remover is potassium nitrate and not it's intended use and may have impurities as well

i use the pax bellum product N+MO since i use their chaeto reactor. good stuff

 

[s70]

that area with algae is dead. the coral still may pull through though. bubble corals are fairly resilient in my experience.

keep them in lower flow areas and post your water parameters. if your trying to bring up nitrates then go slow. like 0.5 to 1ppm in 24hrs

need:
sg
pH
PO4
NO3
alk
temp etc..

This is yesterday. And ATI test from about two weeks ago.

 

[reeftivo]

how's the bubble coral doing now? is it in a lower flow area?

your water parameters look fine. a little warmer temp than i kept mine at but still not bad. i kept mine at 77 and they did very well.