Coral acting wierd

[sebnuage]

Anyone recognizes this behavior?

 

[fishguy242]

hi,looks like something it did not like has landed on it,trying to expel it,poss gently blow off top .

 

[MnFish1]

Anyone recognizes this behavior?

Do you mean the ballooning? This happens to one of my goniopora from time to time. It almost looks like the entire tissue is coming off the skeleton. It usually happens after I've fed the fish. All of the polyps retract and the coral looks like that. In an hour its back to normal. So its hard to say whether this is 'normal' - but more information might help - like the age, parameters, temp, lighting, etc - the usual

 

[sebnuage]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I think I found out my problem.
I double checked the accuracy of my red sea kh test kit… with a remaining Salifert I had.
My red sea shows 9.0 dkh while my salifert shows 15+ dkh…
When I switched to red sea I did a comparison check and found a difference of 1dkh.
Little did I know the difference got bigger over a few months.
I’m disappointed in red sea tests right now.

 

[MnFish1]

Thanks for the replies guys.
I think I found out my problem.
I double checked the accuracy of my red sea kh test kit… with a remaining Salifert I had.
My red sea shows 9.0 dkh while my salifert shows 15+ dkh…
When I switched to red sea I did a comparison check and found a difference of 1dkh.
Little did I know the difference got bigger over a few months.
I’m disappointed in red sea tests right now.

It looks to me like there is sand on top of the coral - as someone else said. I would brush that off perhps? Are you dosing something that would have caused your alkalinity to rise to 15? Are other corals, etc affected. I would make sure that all of your test kits are 'not expired' and that you're exactly following the directions. How often do you check your alkalinity? When you compare 1 test to another - there is really no way to know 'which one is correct'. If I were you - before making a decision, I would get a third test.

 

[Double monti 61]

Not that unusual I have some blastomussa that will shrivel up a bit from time to time but they always seem to recover maybe they are expelling waste although my merleti is disturbed when one of my sexy shrimp crawl on it.

 

[sebnuage]

hi,looks like something it did not like has landed on it,trying to expel it,poss gently blow off top .

Oh and btw , I did blew off some live sand off of it… my wrass keeps showering some around, thanks for the idea

 

[sebnuage]

It looks to me like there is sand on top of the coral - as someone else said. I would brush that off perhps? Are you dosing something that would have caused your alkalinity to rise to 15? Are other corals, etc affected. I would make sure that all of your test kits are 'not expired' and that you're exactly following the directions. How often do you check your alkalinity? When you compare 1 test to another - there is really no way to know 'which one is correct'. If I were you - before making a decision, I would get a third test.

Well I did try to increase my kh in the past few months.
I dose kh as well and I think the red sea test was bad.
Havent found an expiration date.
I normally check my kh every week or so to make sure the doser doesn’t get out of control.
I have rhodactis that are folded up like on the picture and all zoas and acans are stretched like they want more sun. Today I found my blue damsel dead wich is the reason I started investigating. In fact also noticed that all other fish are breathing quite rapidly. I'm pretty darn certain it has nothing to do with o2 levels as well as amonia nitrates or phosphates because they are all within range. As for magnesium I Have it around 1500 because im battling algaes for a while now. (Recovering slowly from an undersized skimmer) calcium is high around 500 , I keep it high because I know it will start to drop when the corals start growing back and will adjust accordingly.
I will be buy back from salifert, I never had any problem with them for 20 years … I switched because my lfs told me I would be fine …with red sea and they were out of salifert kh test kits
Lesson learned.

 

[sebnuage]

They are already better, cut the dosing this morning and did a 20% water change. Tomorow I will find/buy a salifert test kit

 

[sebnuage]

I must add this ; every shrimps in my tank died.
Lost a tiger pistol shrimp, 3 peppermint shrimp and a lysmata debelius (fire shrimp). Pods are also dead…
Crabs, hermits and snails seems ok.
Fishes are slowing their breathing.
Corals that were affected seems to be better.