Speckled SPS Polyps (1 Viewer)

[-AnThOnY-]

Have y'all ever seen any speckled SPS polyps? I tried to google a little bit and haven't seen anything, but my digi started showing these specks lately. Really noticeable in that upper branch.

Tank has been struggling for a little bit and am trying to work through that but it always has good color (a little pale in the picture) and extension.

 

[Cody]

I'd be curious to see this in person. Kind of hard to tell without a macro lens taking the pics.

 

[Seaworthy Aquatics]

Happen to know nutrients and alk/cal/mg levels? I've seen similar with low nutrients, high alk and very low magnesium around 1200 or less. Digis tend to lose colors under 1300 mg. This was taken around 1100 magnesium.

 

[-AnThOnY-]

Happen to know nutrients and alk/cal/mg levels? I've seen similar with low nutrients, high alk and very low magnesium around 1200 or less. Digis tend to lose colors under 1300 mg. This was taken around 1100 magnesium.

Last time I checked, 400 cal, 1360 mg and fairly low alk at 7, nitrate and phos both at zero but I have a chunk of C. mexicana in the tank so im sure that doesnt help get a good read

That pic does look pretty much the same though!

 

[decimal]

“Nitrate and phos at zero” brother.. that’s a ticking time bomb lol.. start dosing or adding those to avoid a Dino attack.

 

[-AnThOnY-]

“Nitrate and phos at zero” brother.. that’s a ticking time bomb lol.. start dosing or adding those to avoid a Dino attack.

Feeding twice a day and its a 12 gallon with a fairly heavy bio-load (pair of clowns, pair of yashas w pistol, royal gramma and CUC). I keep getting worried I'm already dumping too much in there and I was trying to take care of a small hair algae problem by feeding less.

I might get back into daily phyto and see if that helps. I slowed down a bunch after I moved my gorg

Tank is struggling either way and I am trying to figure that out. Might need to do an ICP test. Using the same water and salt in this tank as I do at the house and it turned a corner the wrong way 3 months go. Most parameters seem in check minus alk hanging out slightly low which shouldn't be a deal breaker especially with my softies struggling the most (hey low nitrate and phos? )

 

[decimal]

I don’t think I have ever heard of phyto having negative effects. But zero nitrates and phos is the baseline for Dinos..

 

[jrounding]

Based on what I’ve seen low magnesium is a pretty big issue. I have even heard of people running mag to 1400 or 1450 on softie tanks. For my tank parameters I use the Red Sea reef care recipe. You can find it on their website for free. I’m using coral pro salt and maintaining calcium at 450, magnesium at 1350 and 11.5 dKH. They also recommend phosphate levels of .1 and nitrate levels of 2. I just dose Neophos and Neonitrate as needed to maintain my levels. I don’t stress about hitting .1 phosphate, but like to keep it above .04. I do have some algae at the moment, but the idea that you’re going to starve it out with 0 nitrates and 0 phosphate is not realistic based on the latest information for reefing. Basically by doing so you may be starving the zooxanthellae that live in the coral and provide the nutrition to the coral.