Frogspawn dying

[DirkDigler]

Hello reef2reef community. I'm stressing out over my frogspawn dying and idk why. Ive had it for about 4-5 weeks and was doing great color and polyps fully extended and it seemed to like them lighting (positioned low to mid tank) and flow (55%). My parameters are.
Phos:0.1ppt
Salinity: 1.026
Mg:1260
Kh:8.6
Ph:8.0
Ca:420
Nitrate:<2.0
Nitrite:0
Any suggestions greatly appreciated, I don't want this guy to die.

 

[goosemans]

Definitely not dying. Something probably just irritated it for the time being. Let it do its thing and be on the lookout if there’s any creatures bothering it first before making any changes.

 

[DirkDigler]

Definitely not dying. Something probably just irritated it for the time being. Let it do its thing and be on the lookout if there’s any creatures bothering it first before making any changes.

Thank you for replying, I recently had torch die on me out of nowhere and thats around the same time when the frogspawn began to retract as well. Also important to note, my anemone cloned itself within the same week as all this happened so not sure if that's connected. I had a gold hammer maybe about an 2 inches away from it so not sure if that's what was irritating it. I moved it since. I did modify my wave maker from 55% to 30%. I'm dosing AB+ coral nutrition and have stayed away from reef roids because I'm trying to get a grip on my phosphates. My phosphates were at 0.6 about a week ago and now brought it down to 0.1. I use a Hanna ULR checker and salifert for mg, ca, KH.

 

[goosemans]

anemone could have walked by and stung it. Who knows. Keep calm, make small changes like you’re doing and see if that produces any results. If you’re really concerned maybe look up brown jelly disease and see if that applies to your tank. To me it doesn’t look like bjd but I’m also not in front of your tank. Going from 0.6 to 0.1 is a pretty significant change if it was 0.6 PO4 for a while and then dropped that much in a week. I think the hammer will settle and be fine. Torches can be a hit or miss. I currently have one that’s been on the brink of death for almost a year and nothing I do seems to either make it better or kill it so I just leave it. Hope this helps

 

[Cichlid Dad]

What tank size and light being used

 

[DirkDigler]

anemone could have walked by and stung it. Who knows. Keep calm, make small changes like you’re doing and see if that produces any results. If you’re really concerned maybe look up brown jelly disease and see if that applies to your tank. To me it doesn’t look like bjd but I’m also not in front of your tank. Going from 0.6 to 0.1 is a pretty significant change if it was 0.6 PO4 for a while and then dropped that much in a week. I think the hammer will settle and be fine. Torches can be a hit or miss. I currently have one that’s been on the brink of death for almost a year and nothing I do seems to either make it better or kill it so I just leave it. Hope this helps

Thank you, I will trust the process although it's rather frustrating seeing as though I've tried to be disciplined with my parameters.

 

[DirkDigler]

What tank size and light being used

32.5 fluval flex tank, I have a Nero 3 wavemaker positioned higher on the tank to the right side. I have a tunze protein skimmer. I have two fluvial marine 3.0 lights. My tank is two years matured.

 

[DirkDigler]

What tank size and light being used

32.5 fluval flex tank, I have a Nero 3 wavemaker positioned higher on the tank to the right side. I have a tunze protein skimmer. I have two fluvial marine 3.0 lights. My tank is nearly two years matured.

32.5 fluval flex tank, I have a Nero 3 wavemaker positioned higher on the tank to the right side. I have a tunze protein skimmer. I have two fluvial marine 3.0 lights. My tank is two years matured.

I also have a reef doser with MG, KH and Ca connected to it. It doses once a day although I may modify that because I find myself testing daily and my numbers for MG have been hovering around 1170-1260 and find myself constantly dosing to try and get 1300 which is normally what I like to keep it at.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I don't think the light is going to be strong enough for these guys. That may be the issue

Edit I didn't see you had two, so not sure

 

[DirkDigler]

I don't think the light is going to be strong enough for these guys. That may be the issue

Edit I didn't see you had two, so not sure

Idk the exact par for these lights but I have a torch and hammer and they are doing fine. Should I move my frogspawn higher? Mind you, the frogspawn has been in the same spot for a month doing great, it was actually the one that was the fluffiest but all of a sudden it started retracting and opening it's mouth.

 

[Cichlid Dad]

Idk the exact par for these lights but I have a torch and hammer and they are doing fine. Should I move my frogspawn higher? Mind you, the frogspawn has been in the same spot for a month doing great, it was actually the one that was the fluffiest but all of a sudden it started retracting and opening it's mouth.

Having two could be enough. I just don't know. Unless you get get par meter. I have mine at 150 and a little higher in my reef.