Jimbo662 Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Over the last month and a half or so my scoly has slowly been shrinking. I've had it about 4 months. It's now about 1/3 of the size it used to be. When I feed reef chili it would always open and extend it's tentacles to eat. When the shrinking began it stopped doing that. I've not added any new fish, just a few corals here and there and there's been nothing near it. I moved it to as spot where the lighting is a little lower and very little flow to see if that would have any affect but it didn't. The water parameters are very consistent. Any ideas what may be going on? Testing today: Sal - 1.024-.025 Mag - 1425 Kh - 9.3 Cal - 500 Phos - 0 Amon - 0 Nitrite - 0 Natrate -0 Ph - 8.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+etannert Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 I've killed two of these before realizing that they can get burned out really easily. I managed to rescue the third by putting it in very low light. What type of lighting are you using? I would try putting it farther up under the rockwork so it's getting very little light. Then continue to target feed, keep alk and mag steady, and keep the hermit crabs away from it. As Hunter at Aqua Dome once told me, when it gets to this point it's sort of up to the coral to live or not, but I've seen worse come back and look just fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 I've had LEDs on the tank from the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckyuv Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 If I were you I would contact migs. I doubt there is anyone else on arc that can help you more than he can, he has worked wonders with dead scolys and made them look new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 If I were you I would contact migs. I doubt there is anyone else on arc that can help you more than he can, he has worked wonders with dead scolys and made them look new! +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Have you changed your carbon lately ? Maybe it's a chemical situation ? Any new dosing since things went down hill ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo662 Posted March 17, 2013 Author Share Posted March 17, 2013 I added a new BRS carbon / GFO reactor but that was after it had started to decline. I don't do any dosing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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