Help with this leather Kenya Tree coral

[Franksix]

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This happened about a month ago. I lost his buddy (the other head) then and he has been drooping ever since. I just relocated him from the bottom left side to the upper middle. I have a stock RSM 130D. My nitrite and Nitrate levels are slightly high right now, but not in the danger zone. Any suggestions on how to help this little guy bounces back?

[Roots]

any measurable nitrite is a problem. Kenya trees will go through periods of retraction where they get sort of stiff and lose some color and drop some branches. It's one way that they reproduce. The dropped branches can attach and grow a new colony. As long as a small piece of the original colony remains it will grow new branches and form a colony again. If it's been retracted and melting away for a month though, you have a problem within your parameters somewhere. They can be damaged by more aggressive corals as well. What was it next to before you moved it?

[Doogle]

Hmmm, I had a tree coral that resembled this Saltwater Aquarium Corals for Marine Reef Aquariums: Red Tip Tree Coral my pic and could never get it to thrive, it slowly withered away, sad.

Now this type of Kenya tree I can't kill if I tried.lol
Give it good water and hope it bounces back, I don't have much else for you. Hit or miss IME

[Franksix]

any measurable nitrite is a problem. Kenya trees will go through periods of retraction where they get sort of stiff and lose some color and drop some branches. It's one way that they reproduce. The dropped branches can attach and grow a new colony. As long as a small piece of the original colony remains it will grow new branches and form a colony again. If it's been retracted and melting away for a month though, you have a problem within your parameters somewhere. They can be damaged by more aggressive corals as well. What was it next to before you moved it?

It was on its own before I moved it. I placed it in an empty patch of rock I wanted to fill.

I'll keep working on the nitrite level.