poorly pussie coral

[mousehunter22]

anyone help me ive several soft corals in my tank an all are doing realy well except my pussie coral which was growing realy wildly but then suddenly retracted and is realy struggleing.Ive put a large amount of phosphate remover into my external filter and ive tested for nitrate,nitrite and amonia all are fine. I am a newbie to all this and would appreciate some help

[Tangman]

Hi Some phosphate removers drop the ph in your tank so this is what could be happening to yours, if i were you i would put the tank as it was before without the phosphate remover and see if that makes it bette. HTH Eric

[Kev]

How long has it been retracted? I find mine closes down sometimes, although not very frequently, but will open up again after a few days, and look as good as ever.

[oakwell]

dont want to alarm you, but have u noticed any new snails in your tank?

Is the coral just shut down or is it rotting in any way?

I had a similar prob and found i had some bad snails in my tank...just something to watch out for if all other things fail

Check out my post i put on about my pussy coral dieing

[mousehunter22]

the coral has been retracted for weeks now it does keep trying to open but very small compared to what it was.Oh and its Rowa phos ive been useing incase that makes any difference,and the reason i put it in was because of the coral retracting.
my other corals are:elephants ear,long tentacled mushroom,brown button polyp,green star polyp and some other soft coral i cant remember the name of.All of them are fine an growing well.

[Macca]

Are you running carbon? Could you have a chemical being leeched out by the leather for example? A wild guess I know :confused:

James

[mousehunter22]

would active carbon pick that up what ever it is? because stupidly i was useing active carbon and left it in far to long

[Macca]

Carbon will soon become exhausted and turn into a biological media. So a fresh batch will remove pollutants /chemicals within your water.

James