Hello everyone,
I got this candy cane coral for almost free, it wasn't looking so good to be honest. I wanna attempt to save it, Its in my 20g long QT for now. Here are the stuff I noticed:
- There is a bunch of hair algae all over it, should I attempt to remove, some of it directly on the head.
- There is a feather duster worm (I think its feather duster?) inside one of the deformed head, read about feather duster worms aren't bad for the reef tank but in this case should I remove, if so how should I even attempt that. Also the head where the feather worms lives looks very deformed, but there is still green alive tissue here. Whats happening here?
- Red spots, is that algae?
- There's some aiptasia looking thing in the picture with the green circle. Can anyone confirm its aiptasia? Kinda looks another feather worm because it doesn't have tentacles like an aiptasia does, more like "feathers" if that makes sense. Also it has a hole in the skeleton I think. I haven't dipped the coral yet.
- Also for the coral it self, what should I do help it? Color is faded and looks quite deflated not puffy, should I just leave it to settle? Its only been 1 day. All these pictures are from day 1 hour 2.
Paramters:
Alkalinity 6.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0.1
Temperature: 25.5c
Phosphate: 0.55 weird reading, was just 0.13 yesterday might be an error
Nitrate: 20ppm
Calcium: 430-440ppm
Mag: 1260
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I got this candy cane coral for almost free, it wasn't looking so good to be honest. I wanna attempt to save it, Its in my 20g long QT for now. Here are the stuff I noticed:
- There is a bunch of hair algae all over it, should I attempt to remove, some of it directly on the head.
- There is a feather duster worm (I think its feather duster?) inside one of the deformed head, read about feather duster worms aren't bad for the reef tank but in this case should I remove, if so how should I even attempt that. Also the head where the feather worms lives looks very deformed, but there is still green alive tissue here. Whats happening here?
- Red spots, is that algae?
- There's some aiptasia looking thing in the picture with the green circle. Can anyone confirm its aiptasia? Kinda looks another feather worm because it doesn't have tentacles like an aiptasia does, more like "feathers" if that makes sense. Also it has a hole in the skeleton I think. I haven't dipped the coral yet.
- Also for the coral it self, what should I do help it? Color is faded and looks quite deflated not puffy, should I just leave it to settle? Its only been 1 day. All these pictures are from day 1 hour 2.
Paramters:
Alkalinity 6.8
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0.1
Temperature: 25.5c
Phosphate: 0.55 weird reading, was just 0.13 yesterday might be an error
Nitrate: 20ppm
Calcium: 430-440ppm
Mag: 1260
0