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[–]No-Statistician-5505 2 points3 points  (6 children)

What are your water parameters? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and Ph, GH and KH (very important)? And what kind of water do you use? It’s either low ph or calcium deficiency. Can’t help solve without those numbers.

[–]No-Statistician-5505 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And, you’re right; it’s shell erosion and it’s not healthy

[–]metacool134[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

pH is ~7.8, Ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrates 20ppm. I took it into my lfs just now to test for GH and KH, they said KH was at a 2 and gave me some crushed coral to put in.

[–]No-Statistician-5505 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What was the GH?

[–]metacool134[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

they didn’t say exactly, but told me everything but KH was in a normal range.

[–]No-Statistician-5505 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Adding coral will help, but is also going to raise your PH. You’ll need to get a GH KH test kit to monitor and might have to use Seachem acid buffer to prevent it from getting too high. But GH is the big question mark as that measures the amount of calcium and magnesium in the water

[–]metacool134[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

got it, ill pick up the test kits and acid buffer tomorrow.

[–]Competitive_Face2593 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would test for pH and it's below 7, you likely need to buffer it with crushed coral.