Can someone PLEASE HELP me save my Turbinaria!

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I see no presence of Dino which will be golden brown in color and string slimy with bubbles almost looking like snot
 
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Let’s get #reefsquad involved. My last guess is it’s either a pest or flow/lighting issue. Could we get a FTS? What lighting do you have?
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Let’s get #reefsquad involved. My last guess is it’s either a pest or flow/lighting issue. Could we get a FTS? What lighting do you have?
Lighting is an Italian fixture called GNC am466 I am also attaching a picture of what the tank used to look like in the old owners home.
 

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how long has it been hosting your clowns? also not sure if that one powerhead is enough flow for a large tank edit i see the second now in the new photo
 
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how long has it been hosting your clowns? also not sure if that one powerhead is enough flow for a large tank
It doesn’t host the clowns, the pic is incidental, the clowns actually host a torch coral. I have a gyre system in place as well as the power head. it’s not very visible in the pictures I apologize but it’s on the top right edge.
 

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Just your last readings should do. alk, nitrate, phosphate and salinity.

I know they need a fairly high flow and lighting.
They need medium light at a 50-150 PAR level and good flow across the coral itself. It doesn't need high lighting or special considerations. It just needs some water moving across it to help remove waste.
 
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They need medium light at a 50-150 PAR level and good flow across the coral itself. It doesn't need high lighting or special considerations. It just needs some water moving across it to help remove waste.
Flow is good I think, the power head sits behind it and the polyps are always gently moving with the water. Not sure if I should increase or diminish it or if it’s fine where it sits.
 

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Flow is good I think, the power head sits behind it and the polyps are always gently moving with the water. Not sure if I should increase or diminish it or if it’s fine where it sits.
you can increase a little. As mentioned, it allow the polyps to remove waste and prevent mucus
 

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so how many times have you moved the tank recently? those pic's all look different location's in the first picture i see a shallow clean sand bed in the next few I see alot of sand and it's very dirty. how stable is this tank?
 
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so how many times have you moved the tank recently? those pic's all look different location's in the first picture i see a shallow clean sand bed in the next few I see alot of sand and it's very dirty. how stable is this tank?
Tank was moved once. The one with the deep sand bed was the previous owners home, all the other pics are taken at the same location which is my house. Moving the DSB was impossible so I went with a shallow sand bed and added a chaeto reactor. Skimmer, carbon also present in the sump.
 

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well that first picture has a clown in it sooooo maybe it is hosting your clowns or they just play in it
 
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well that first picture has a clown in it sooooo maybe it is hosting your clowns or they just play in it
I observe my tank a lot (it’s in the room where I basically live) the clowns do occasionally visit the Turbinaria but they vastly prefer the torch. Never seen them nip or bite though.

The Turbinaria is losing polyps on the edges, slowly leaving holes where polyps used to be. I sincerely don’t think this is a livestock issue.
 
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Just wanted to say BIG THANK YOU to whoever is answering. I’ll try to do anything you guys agree is a good idea, costs, time, difficulty no problem I just want to save my coral.
 

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In the old setup it appears as if it was high in the aquarium, but away from the direct lighting on the fixture. Your setup it appears to be in pretty direct lighting, even though it is lower. If it were my tank I would try to move it down or over slightly to gently reduce the lighting. Just a thought!
 

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The photos and your explanation show that the tank has undergone big changes recently.
The sand was removed, lightning was changed, the tank has also been moved.
This is HUGE

Corals often will not show distress immediately after the change is made, some will adjust and some may not like the change.
In my opinion a very delicate ecosystem was disturbed and this coral is not adjusting well.

It may be something as simple as the starvation, it could betoo many nutrients or even the flow may be disturbing the polyps on that edge enough to cause them to die off.

Come back to us with the phosphate reading but I would now try to slowly mimic exactly the environment the coral was before you got the tank.
 
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