Palys came back from the dead???

reefer1970 · 04/02/2017, 06:25 PM

My army green palys on several different rocks seemed to die when I moved my aquarium about six months ago. They didn't shrivel up they just turned pure white and I assumed that they were just dead. Recently I started making some changes to my parameters such as dosing vodka because my nitrates and phosphates were high (so far they were still very high and have not gone down) and I adjusted my alk , my calcium and magnesium. Is there anything in particular that I can attribute to making the palys happy enough to come back to life?

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AlSimmons · 04/02/2017, 06:39 PM

Make sure to keep your parameters within reason, give the polyps plenty of light and cross your fingers IMO.

sde1500 · 04/06/2017, 06:20 AM

Don't think they were dead then, if they are coming back obviously. If they truly died, it would have completely melted off the rock. But makes sense if they were doing poorly due to bad water conditions that they'd start to rebound now that you are getting things back on track. What are your parameters at now?

SantaMonica · 04/07/2017, 12:14 PM

Carbon dosing can make nutrients unnaturally low, and paly's can't handle that well.

04/02/2017, 06:25 PM	#1
reefer1970 Registered Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: Grosse Pointe, MI Posts: 422	Palys came back from the dead??? My army green palys on several different rocks seemed to die when I moved my aquarium about six months ago. They didn't shrivel up they just turned pure white and I assumed that they were just dead. Recently I started making some changes to my parameters such as dosing vodka because my nitrates and phosphates were high (so far they were still very high and have not gone down) and I adjusted my alk , my calcium and magnesium. Is there anything in particular that I can attribute to making the palys happy enough to come back to life? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04/06/2017, 06:20 AM	#3
sde1500 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Glocester, RI Posts: 3,336	Don't think they were dead then, if they are coming back obviously. If they truly died, it would have completely melted off the rock. But makes sense if they were doing poorly due to bad water conditions that they'd start to rebound now that you are getting things back on track. What are your parameters at now? __________________ My build thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2548422 Current Tank Info: 65 gallon mixed reef, Eshopps sump and HOB overflow, RO-110int skimmer, Reefbreeder 32" photons V1.

04/07/2017, 12:14 PM	#4
SantaMonica Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Santa Monica, California, USA Posts: 2,511	Carbon dosing can make nutrients unnaturally low, and paly's can't handle that well. __________________ Inventor of the easy-to-DIY upflow scrubber, and also the waterfall scrubber that everyone loves to build: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1424843

04/02/2017, 06:39 PM	#2
AlSimmons Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: California Posts: 2,482	Make sure to keep your parameters within reason, give the polyps plenty of light and cross your fingers IMO.