Duncan coral help

[sewagner86]

Hello!

I have a duncan, a trumpet and a hammer coral. All are fragile. The duncan looked fantastic until I got the hammer. Now it's drawn in and not so flowy. I currently have them down on the sand bed to acclimate. There is plenty of space between all of them. Did I mess up? I also have 3 hermit crabs, a few snails, a yellow watchman goby and a clownfish. Its a 20 gallon AIO IM tank. I also am looking for advice or somewhere to direct me on dosing the tank Thanks!

 

[Kooma]

You could run some activated charcoal to try and suck up any chemical warfare happening. Water parameters?

 

[Liquid361]

How old is the tank?

 

[FUNGI]

Looks like new tank.....sands too clean....LOL.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

What are your lights and flow?

 

[ptrusk]

More light more flow get them off the sand

 

[sewagner86]

Looks like new tank.....sands too clean....LOL.

The tank is about 2 months old at this point.

What are your lights and flow?

I have a nicrew light. The make is at 40% i am unsure of par level. The flow....its pretty high flow. I have a wave maker that runs at 10% and then have the pumps for the tank running.

 

[Northern Flicker]

The tank is about 2 months old at this point.

I have a nicrew light. The make is at 40% i am unsure of par level. The flow....its pretty high flow. I have a wave maker that runs at 10% and then have the pumps for the tank running.

I grow my Duncan’s at the same level as my SPS. They seem to love light and flow.

There is a possibility that your new hammer brought a bacterial infection known as Brown Jelly Disease. Keep and eye out for brown “goo”.

 

[sewagner86]

You could run some activated charcoal to try and suck up any chemical warfare happening. Water parameters?

I have some carbon in the reactor currently. Would that work?

Water parameters tonight per my salifert tests are
Salinity 1.024
pH 8.15-8.3
Alkalinity 10.2-10.5
Ammonia I believe it's 0, but could be <0.15
Nitrates 10
Magnesium 990-1020
Calcium 360
Phosphate 0.03

I know I need to increase the magnesium and calcium. Anything else?

 

[sewagner86]

I moved the corals around a little bit when I fed the fish. I moved the hammer away from the duncan and the duncan does seem happier at this point.