Soft Corals are Easy Right?
<< I'll say yes. They need clean water and lots of light. >> I have a 75 gallon reef with a protein skimmer that operates efficiently —– two over the back filters mainly for carbon and poly filters and 4 powerheads to create water movement —- water movement is very good — I also use subcompact supplemented with some additional actinics. Everything was going real good (yes I know this was to good for to long — succeeding and failing reef hobbyist for 12 years). The problem is that all my stonies are doing great Brain, Candy Cane, Frog and Hammer but my softs are not. I have xenia, leather, green star polyps and green fluorescent mushrooms which all seem to be struggling —- the PH was low at 7.9 << That's low. I'd find that problem source first. >> so I immediately did a 40% water change and started with the Super buffer DKH — the leather open and expanded its polyps but the green star polyps and mushrooms are still closed and the xenia is actually dying. I have the Ph up to
