Brain coral diying!!!!!!!!!!

I dont know whats going on i just bought this coral a week ago and the part that is diying was closer to the lights but it was still at almost the bottom of my tank. Any clue on what is going on with this. Its my first brain coral

 

what are your parameters

 

well my ph is 8.2, cal is 460ppm, alk was a little low, and my sal was .021 so i added some alk buffer and i am adding i strong saltwater mixture very slowly at 1 cup about every 5-10 min to bring it up to .026

 

i found out that i was getting faulse readings from my water tester because it had little bubbles pushing up higher

 

what about ammonia nitrate nitrite

 

nitrite is 0 and nitrate is 20ppm dont know about ammonia

 

have you tried shading it, i heard red brains need less light then green ones

 

i just moved it to the bottom where there is more shade because i moved it to the top and with in like five min it started looking worse.

 

Was there skeleton exposed when you bought it? Based on the amount of algae growing on the skeleton it looks like it was. I made the mistake of buying one with a small amount of exposed skeleton. I didn't see it until I brought it home and then I figured it wasn't a big deal. It stayed that way for a while but then the dead area eventually started spreading. Once it started spreading the flesh completely disappeared in about a week. Brown jelly disease finished it off. I later read that they rarely recover if there is exposed skeleton since infection will eventually set in. Good luck.

 

thanks i will watch it then. that really sucks.