Yellow polyps - tips curling - HELP!!

[Zymurgy]

Hi all, am hoping someone here can help me!

Have had my tank running for a couple of months now and added a small group of yellow polyps about 2 weeks ago. Over the last 4 - 5 days the tips of the have gone darker, curled up and seem to be wasting away.

Water levels are 8.2 ph, 0 amm, 0 nitrite and 5 ppm. Salinity is 1.022 at the moment, temp at 26c.

Pic below may help to explain a little -

please help me!

 

[Len]

The water parameters look fine except the low specific gravity, which I would raise to 1.025. But I doubt this is the problem. Yellow polyps are fickle like this. Sometimes, they grow like crazy and then will suddenly crash and wither away for unknown reasons.

A few things I'd try is moving it down so it gets less light. Consider feeding the polyps rotifers, cyclopeeze, artemia, or small mysis shrimps. If you aren't dosing anything, consider a two part supplment to provide the polyps the minor and trace elements it might be lacking.

 

[Zymurgy]

well, am slowly raising the gravity and have done a couple of water changes to make sure everything is ok but no improvement at the moment.

The polyps are towards the bottom of the tank already. I have fed some soft coral trace additives and also direct fed some shrimp as well. Am hoping these done die on me as wouldnt be good for my first coral!

 

[Zymurgy]

well, gravity has been raised to 1.024 at the moment and i have been feeding trace nutrients and direct feeding them shrimp but no improvement at all.

In fact, a couple of them look to have died.

Has anyone got any other ideas at all?

 

[Anonymous]

I do find that they do better if they are fed, and used to target feed cyclopeeze.

Oh, and by the way...

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