Have quite a few growing on the back glass and some crevices. They are actually all good. Softies are all good. Pretty much everything else sucks. I just threw another wav pump to increase the flow in the tank.
Also just dumped 2000mg of fish mox into the tank.
Sorry about that. I am not sure you need to do that. But - support it if you do. Sorry to hear the problems - to me - the key is getting anything dying or dead out of the tank. Have you happened to re-check your parameters (ammonia, etc)
If you add antibiotics, you risk messing up your beneficial bacteria - and it will be quickly removed anyway - by the carbon and polyfilter - and water changes - right?
IMHO - the problem is what I mentioned before - you have something in the tank - causing constant chemical problems - leading in death - which leads to ammonia - its a downward spiral. Who knows - you might also have some parasite now because of the stress, etc. Have you considered removing your fish and other living things (except coral) to a QT tank - changing water - and then just watching the coral - and watching what happens over a couple weeks. I.e. save what you can? PS - I was curious - how much water were you changing each time - and how often?
30 gallons every 3rd day. I don't have room or space to Quarantine everything. Whatever happens in that tank is on its own at this point. To much stress and over a decade of work going into it. I am over it but hope when people do a search about bryopsis and Flucanazole this thread comes up and they can read all about what happens when you use it. Definitly no parasites in the tank. Its all related to Flucanazole killing something that continues to release toxins into the water. Maybe some type of sponge? Ammomia is 0 and nitrite is 0 so neither are responsible for what is happening.
your tank is 90 gallons correct? I might be misremembering that. If you use the water change calculator I put up a could days ago - lets say the chemical you're trying to remove started at 100 ppm - and 20 ppm were created between changes (of course this is made up because no one knows - how fast a 'toxin' is building up) - but this is just to illustrate. If you did 6 changes at that level - after the 6th change you would have reduced the 'toxin' to about 45 percent. If your tank is bigger than 90 gallons - of course the toxin levels would be higher. The point - after 18 days - you've only removed about 50 percent of the toxins in the tank (assuming 90 gallons and every 3 day 30 gallon changes). I.e. your 'animals' have been exposed still to significant amounts of 'whatever is causing the problem' - for 18 days. This is - IMHO what leads to the cascade - and My guess its non-measurable 'toxins' - with periodic ammonia rises, etc. The reason to suggest removing the fish you can - even if its into a brute with a heater and a small sponge filter and some added bacteria in a bottle - is that at least you take away repeated fish deaths - and their toxins from the equation. PS - I wonder if its the zoas that are constantly irritated and releasing 'something'. PS - I agree with you - I try not to use antibiotics in the tank (or fluconazole) - it seems to always cause more problems that its solving. Again sorry you have had to go through this.
