Top 5 Reasons LPS Corals Die

It can be difficult to work out why your corals are dying in a saltwater aquarium, and online advice often misses the simple fixes that work in the majority of cases. So in this video, I share the top 5 causes of problems with corals in my 40 gallon LPS reef tank.

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[OvidiuDanBogat]

Hi. I just stumbled across your channel researching builds, and you, sir, are criminally undersubbed! The amount of information and the quality of the videos is incredible. Thank you!

[MiXReef]

The last part about finding what you looking for in a bottle is great advice. The basics will save you in the long run .

[artrose]

I needed this video. My gonis have been struggling lately. Thank you for giving me a check list to go through

[rymaccichlids]

Love your channel I am a new sub and new to the salt water hobby been keeping fresh water aquariums for 25 plus years

[jimmy_erazo]

Im glad you talked about peppermint shrimp they are carnivorous glad you exposed them for what they truly are!

[alex_smale]

Great vid Alex. I'm going to turn my lights down a bit!

[BaoNguyen-ehxh]

Glad you mentioned shrimp, mine ate two of my Scoly and when I found out it was too late :((

[gotju]

Hi Alex, #5 is getting me as we speak. I have a 110 gallon and I have not been able to keep sps coral and have been wracking my brain as to why. Additionally, my alk, calc, mag, ph levels have also been off. Did some tests, went to my LFS who first thing told me is my salinity was reading 39ppt. Hanna was telling me 35. I’m in the middle of doing bigger and several water changes to lower salinity and get back to baseline. Not sure what cause all my issues in the first place but resetting my tank water parameters with big/frequent changes seem to be helping so far. Great video.

[vanhalenman]

man its been years since ive been on your channel, i just restarted my reef keeping hobby. Im as bald as you now! lol

[rudra]

The video I need but don't deserve!

Just had an LPS torch die and i've got no idea why, every other coral is fine, even my frogspawn.

Thank you!

[encrustingacro]

Fun fact: polyp inflation/tentacle extension correlates to coral health only up to a certain extent. If you look at corals such as Micromussa, Dipsastraea, Cycloseris, etc. in the wild, they are way less fleshy than their captive counterparts. I have shown wild (true) Goniastrea to some reefkeepers and they were surprised at how drawn tight to the skeleton the corals were.

[willtel]

Thanks for this. It is disheartening how quickly LPS can head south when something is off.

[stevenelsoncpp]

Is that a tomini tang at 0:15? I'd love one of those

[Pastronomer]

I always struggle with LPS, all the parameters are bang on, it's stable, then one day I'll lose a polyp head from my hammer. This hobby completely baffles me

[yunghysterik]

Great video and even better goniopora garden

[jaysrealreefuk]

Amazing videography of your corals. With the top 3 being brilliant advice for all corals. 🙌 Those Goni's look incredible and that amazeballs coral has some serious pop. Love your frag tank reef. Looking forward to the next video 👍.

[artistic_spaz]

I am having a hard time keeping cleaner shrimp alive for some reason.. maybe you could do an episode on things like that?

[geoffW]

Thanks. Very helpful. My acan has the same issue as yours in sps tank. It doesn’t grow but I have now reduced the light. Hopefully it will grow.

[kiwikoxo]

I just added my first corals to my tank! gonna be LPS and this helps so much lol makes me less nervous

[xisotopex]

any idea why my zoas seem to be getting very drab? they seem to be losing color, yet they are growing...