+SChrisEV Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I have a chalice frag that was given to me about 5 months ago. The guy was closing his tank down, it was not looking very good but I figured I'd give it a go. After doing a little reading I did not have high expectations because at the time my tank had only been cycled for a couple months. Well it recovered and seems to be doing very well after a couple months in my tank. Over the last few weeks it is going down hill, pretty fast. I am seeing tissue recession on a couple of the edges. I had an incident with a Lobo and a favia, they had a little war, I placed them too close, and the favia lost, and died . The Chalice was close, but at the time I did not see any evidence that it was caught in the cross fire. So I'm not sue if that had anything to do with it or not. It is on the sand bed of my tank that is a 24" depth, I have a couple BuildMyLED lights on the system, but they have been there for quite some time. I have not direct fed it ever, It gets pretty constant flow but it's not real turbulent flow, again except for some small movement (couple inches left to right, front to back) it's been about in the same place since day one in my tank. It has been the victim to my tiger tail sea cucumber, urchins and fighting conch in terms of being knocked around a bit. I'm sure there are question I'll need to answer, but any advise? I'd really like to see if recover and thrive. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted June 3, 2013 Share Posted June 3, 2013 I'd try to get it to as low-flow of a spot as you can find, and keep it a good 6" away from everything else if you can. I'd change carbon too, if it's been a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted June 3, 2013 Author Share Posted June 3, 2013 I have a couple places that have pretty low flow, I'll move it this evening. I hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timfish Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 If it was doing well for a couple of months that would tell me it was happy with the flow and lighting where it was at. I would focus on a water quality issue and run GAC and do water changes as well as monitor the pH, alk and calcium. Now that it's been moved and it dies did it die because it didn't adjust to the new flow, the new light or whatever was wrong with it after it was doing well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Very good points Timfish. I planned on going all my tests tonight but family life got in the way of that. I'll to the full spectrum tomorrow and see how things are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Are you running carbon? If not I'd strongly consider it. If there's a chemical war going on as the cause carbon is one of the easiest ways to attempt to deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SChrisEV Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Yes, but I was without for about a week, and during the "war". Interesting. I did not think about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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