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Posted	skin shedding
09-09-2006 18:43 by craig	hi how often do corals shed there skin mine shedded its skin about 2-3 weeks ago and now i think it is doing it again is this normal when it did it last time seemed alot bigger
09-09-2006 18:56 by trik	are you sure its shedding, what coral is it?
09-09-2006 18:57 by trik	can you post a pick?
09-09-2006 19:18 by craig	it is a finger coral not sure if shedding just not opening fully spoke to lfs it says if was dying ot not right wouldnt open at all and would start to decay there is no sign of decay and it is opening slightly nothing falling of it although when did this last time if i moved it it flaked like we do when sunburnt lol no piccy cam bat gone
09-09-2006 19:32 by trik	what lighting do you have and where about in the tank is it placed? they like bright conditions, they are zooxanthellate, but need to be feed , many require phytoplankton for best growth, they are a hardy coral given the right conditions.
09-09-2006 19:36 by craig	got 4xt5s on tank 2 blue 2 white is near top feed marine snow once a week is it normal for them not to open as much sometimes
09-09-2006 19:38 by trik	no not really , marine snow is ok but sounds like it need the wright stuff, also have you checked your water prams ,
09-09-2006 19:40 by craig	water is all ok ph 8.2 nirate 0 nitrite 0 amonia 0 sg 25 just looked i have had a algae prob he has little bit on tips will this affect it how can i get it off
09-09-2006 19:45 by craig	right just got alage ogg and give him a run in strong flow of water skin came off i think he is shedding again
09-09-2006 19:46 by trik	yes it will , if you have a baster use that or a small power head, WARNING iv had this same problem algea started to build up and no show from corals, tested water all a o k bought a new nitrate test kit and WOW nitrate reading 100mg/L , im just getting tank back to norm after 3 weeks and £300 woth of salt 100L change every 2 days . BUMMER.
09-09-2006 19:49 by craig	new test kits mate all other coral fine and the sensative fish eg red star fish is fine other corals wide open i have mushrooms and bubble coral
09-09-2006 20:03 by trik	my sarcophyton was the first to shut down , coming back good now though, it was just a sugestion, my stichodactyia did not show any signs of stress or my protopalythoa.
09-09-2006 20:18 by craig	will a uv wipe out the algae
09-09-2006 20:18 by craig	so what u suggest mate i have heard they do this for a few days sometimes lfs told me this
09-09-2006 20:34 by trik	only the spaws,all i can say is you said you have a algea problem at the mo, your coral sounds like its shutting down the reason may be from your algea, hence why i asked about water prams, to take nitrates and phosphates out the problem take a sample of water to a good lfs and ask them to test it fully , you no all tests , that way you will no there is no problem with the water or your test kits , do you test for alk kh mg and alike.
09-09-2006 21:03 by craig	would it shut down then come around again then shuit down again
09-09-2006 21:14 by trik	my sarcopohyton did. but each time less show, and got smaller.
09-09-2006 21:15 by craig	it is no smaller then last time id say it opens half way every time
09-09-2006 21:22 by trik	which finger coral is it , we in reef like to use the latin name is it alcyonium or stylophora both known as the lfs would put it finger coral to dif corals, but keeping very similar.
09-09-2006 21:34 by craig	just used another test kit nitrates are higher than thought best way to get them down is water changes right
09-09-2006 21:36 by trik	right, as i said in earlier thread, it cost me alot of money, my tank is 6x2x2 £300 in salt
09-09-2006 21:44 by craig	mine is 38x20x20 has 30x15x15 sump how i reduce them down now by changing water and if so how much and how often i wana get it to 0 again
11-09-2006 09:14 by Alan	Have yolu checked your phosphate levels also have you considered the possibility of chemical war fare from other corals I have this problem in my tank not a lot I can do about it really just a case of waiting to see for me but you may be able to relocate corals to reduce it also try filtering over carbon from time to time. The major effect I suffer from chemical war fare though is inhibited growth of all corals bar the big one which fills most of my 55 gallon tank.
11-09-2006 18:00 by trik	alan he found out he had 80mg/l of nitrate , bad test kit again , funny another site i go on there has been this problem, i wonder if the hot weather we had has made the test kits bad, !

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