I have three acanthophyllia in my Red Sea Peninsula 500 (132 gal). Two of them are very happy and healthy. The third one seems to be sick. It sometimes inflates but this is getting less and less frequent. Most of the time it is pretty shriveled up and sad looking. It still east reef roids but very slowly. Same with meatier foods. I got all three at about the same time and they were all doing great at first. If you look at picture "healthy 2 and sick" those two corals actually came from the same tank in the shop at the same time.
Over the past few months a few things have happened that might be relevant. The first was a brown jelly outbreak that killed several euphyllia before I got it under control. The second was that my bubble tip nem decided to walk around a bit and definitely stung the sick coral a bit. Both of these events happened over a month ago at this point.
Based on advice from the LFS (they think it is a bacterial thing) I have done multiple ciprofloxacin treatments. The exact treatment is to crush 1/4 of a tablet into powder and mix it with tank water in a ziplock. I then place the coral in the ziplock and put it into my sump with no lights. I was told to let it sit that way for 6 hours and repeat for 3 days. I tried this and it seemed to work temporarily.
I am not sure what to do at this point. Should I resume the ciprofloxacin treatments and continue until it seems to be fully recovered? Should I really leave it in the sump 6 hrs a day many days in a row? Is there something else I should do?
I had a smaller (80g) AIO tank from March 2020 to April 2021 before I upgraded to this one. I brought over all the live rock and bio media but replaced the sand bed with crushed coral.
Parameters:
alk: 7.68
ca: 485
mg: 1332
ph: daily high 7.8, daily low 7.65
(I recently set up my trident and DOS pump so I am still dialing the dosage in. I am having trouble keeping alk and ph up so I am gradually increasing my mg)
tmp: 78.5
salinity: 1.024
I was sitting at 0/0 for a long time so I increased my feeding and pulled out a bunch of chaeto but didn't stay on top of testing. This is an LPS only tank. I am going to do a 20% water change today and just dosed some nopox to bring this down. My target is ~10-20 nitrates per LFS instructions.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrates: 80
Phosphate: 2
I didn't realize how bad my nitrates are so I am going to fix that ASAP. But I don't think it would be the cause of the deflated appearance because the other two Acanthophyllia and all the other LPS are doing so well.
Over the past few months a few things have happened that might be relevant. The first was a brown jelly outbreak that killed several euphyllia before I got it under control. The second was that my bubble tip nem decided to walk around a bit and definitely stung the sick coral a bit. Both of these events happened over a month ago at this point.
Based on advice from the LFS (they think it is a bacterial thing) I have done multiple ciprofloxacin treatments. The exact treatment is to crush 1/4 of a tablet into powder and mix it with tank water in a ziplock. I then place the coral in the ziplock and put it into my sump with no lights. I was told to let it sit that way for 6 hours and repeat for 3 days. I tried this and it seemed to work temporarily.
I am not sure what to do at this point. Should I resume the ciprofloxacin treatments and continue until it seems to be fully recovered? Should I really leave it in the sump 6 hrs a day many days in a row? Is there something else I should do?
I had a smaller (80g) AIO tank from March 2020 to April 2021 before I upgraded to this one. I brought over all the live rock and bio media but replaced the sand bed with crushed coral.
Parameters:
alk: 7.68
ca: 485
mg: 1332
ph: daily high 7.8, daily low 7.65
(I recently set up my trident and DOS pump so I am still dialing the dosage in. I am having trouble keeping alk and ph up so I am gradually increasing my mg)
tmp: 78.5
salinity: 1.024
I was sitting at 0/0 for a long time so I increased my feeding and pulled out a bunch of chaeto but didn't stay on top of testing. This is an LPS only tank. I am going to do a 20% water change today and just dosed some nopox to bring this down. My target is ~10-20 nitrates per LFS instructions.
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrates: 80
Phosphate: 2
I didn't realize how bad my nitrates are so I am going to fix that ASAP. But I don't think it would be the cause of the deflated appearance because the other two Acanthophyllia and all the other LPS are doing so well.