Blue milli help

[Clement Chen]

Hi I have a blue milli that is becoming botak at the bottom, just today saw white stringy stuff coming out from it. Can anybody advise?

I have shifted to a low flow and less light area. I only started dosing iodine 2 days ago, but has been turning botak for quite some time. Stringy stuff is new.

Tank parameters are as follows

Calcium: 480

KH: 9dKH

Nitrate: Undetectable on salifert (Gives a very light shade of pink when looked thru the side)

Phosphate: Undetectable on salifert (Gives a very faint tint of blue hardy can notice it)

MG: 1450

Dosing food grade calcium and kh.

[james72]

Tank parameters can be perfect, but if its not matured enough, sps can still die. That's why alot of good advises given are "patience".

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[youdontnowm]

Very common for sps polyp not opening at the base as light is hardly able to reach there. Your blue millie very brown . Move up to higher light and bring calcium down slowly to 400-440 will be better. Sent from my GT-N7105 using Tapatalk

[Clement Chen]

Ok thanks, will continue to monitor. Other sps are doing ok, with good PE

[Clement Chen]

It was this colour when i got it. trying to colour it up. That is the best spot with the most light, maybe might be due to the flow, too direct

[Admiraltian]

Among red, green and blue milles, blue Mille r the hardest to keep as they require stronger lightings compared to red and green. As advised by others u can try relocate to higher light spot. Too high calcium levels can also stunned sps pe from opening well.

[Clement Chen]

ok thanks, will try to lower slow down the dosage and let it drop on its own

[sherman]

Blue is the hardest to get

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[honkit]

ClementC,

Are you dosing your additives manually or with an auto dosing pump?

[Clement Chen]

Using dosing pump for ca and kh, just started using it for iodine as well, acro power is weekly manually