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I’ve killed about 3-4 stylophora frags over the last few months and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. The first one I just placed in its location and it started to lose polyps and turn white in spots and was dead in a few days. I thought I bleached it so I placed the second one in a frag rack low and it did ok for a few days and gradually raised it. Same thing happened in the rack eventually. I went even slower with the third one and same thing. Two of them were same morph. The third was a blue one from a different store.
I decided to try one last time as WWC had them on sale and it was a different morph. This time it’s turning white along the side facing the tank after a week in the tank. It’s been low at about 170 par. The side facing my glass in the rack is ok.
My tank is stable and I have other SPS including acros and birds nest growing fine. My ICP last week was all normal. My alk is 8.4, ca 470, mag 1440, ph 8.1 and salt is 35. Phos is stable at 0.05-0.08 and my nitrates hang out around 5 (on Hanna checkers). I have a par meter and was getting 150 par with the rack low and 200 par with the rack high. My par ranges from 200-350 on the rocks. I have high flow in the tank so I’m not sure if the flow might have damaged the frag. It’s strange that the tissue loss is facing the inside of the tank where the flow comes from.
Any insights into what I’m doing wrong?
I decided to try one last time as WWC had them on sale and it was a different morph. This time it’s turning white along the side facing the tank after a week in the tank. It’s been low at about 170 par. The side facing my glass in the rack is ok.
My tank is stable and I have other SPS including acros and birds nest growing fine. My ICP last week was all normal. My alk is 8.4, ca 470, mag 1440, ph 8.1 and salt is 35. Phos is stable at 0.05-0.08 and my nitrates hang out around 5 (on Hanna checkers). I have a par meter and was getting 150 par with the rack low and 200 par with the rack high. My par ranges from 200-350 on the rocks. I have high flow in the tank so I’m not sure if the flow might have damaged the frag. It’s strange that the tissue loss is facing the inside of the tank where the flow comes from.
Any insights into what I’m doing wrong?