Hi, I'm new here but need help with my plate coral

[sncj]

Hi, I'm new to this site. I have a 20 gallon tank with penty of live rock, a branch coral, mushrooms and a plate coral, a cleaner shrimp, some clowns, a bicolour angel, chromis, pseudo chromis and some other things but I'm not sure what they are. The tank has been set up about a year.
All was going well until summer holidays - I think my tank got a bit warm and my beautiful plate coral stopped blowing himself up. He still pokes his fingers out but has shrunk to a fraction of his beautiful former glory. Any suggestions??

[suckafishtankcleaning]

how hot did the tank get? what are your parameters? how long as he been "sad"? add anyting new?

[baugherb]

What kind of lighting do you have... My plates started out great with 28 watts over 12 gallon with pc lighting. Then slowly started losing their color until I finally took them to my buddies lfs where one didn't make it out of 3....

[omard]

Glad to see you found way here.

What do your water params look like? --- I would think very difficult to keep stable with that bioload you have in there.


I would suggest increasing frequency and amount of water changes and seeing if things don't improve.

Good Luck.

[baugherb]

Like omard said, that does sound like alot of fish.....

[wareagle35031]

thats a lot of fish for 20 gal.

[nemo1991]

maybe the water parameters are too high for it since there is alot of fish?

[wareagle35031]

and welcome, i almost forgot how rude

[baugherb]

Welcome to 3Reef>>>> almost forgot.....

[sncj]

Sorry guys - it's a 50 gallon tank. I have only got the basic fluro lighting including a ble one for corals - a very simple setup. I do have a protein skimmer. The tank may have gone to about 85 (this is only a guess) but everything else was fine. Oh, I also have a beautiful blue linkia starfish just to add some character. I love him. Can I resurect my plate?