Corals Closed and Colored Down, Weird Slime

[seanschaef0408]

Hello,

I’m super new to reef tanks, and I’ve had my first set up for about 6 months now. When I arrived home today, I noticed that all of my corals were closed and/or colored down, my Haitian pink tip
Anemone had moved to the back of the tank, and there was a stringy slime where it used to be. I immediately tested the water (with quick test strips to get a general idea, I had to leave for work) and everything is testing normally. Ammonia is 0, nitrates are low, but present, nitrite is 0. What would cause this? I just glued some of my Zoas last night with Loctite Super Glue Gel (read online that it was safe) and now all of a sudden everything looks a mess. I forget the names of them, but a couple of my corals were electric green when I left my house about 6 hours ago, and now they’re brown/gray. I’ve attached pictures. I’m going to do a water change when I get home tonight, but I’m hoping everything doesn’t die in the mean time. Any ideas?

 

[Oscaror]

Hello,

I’m super new to reef tanks, and I’ve had my first set up for about 6 months now. When I arrived home today, I noticed that all of my corals were closed and/or colored down, my Haitian pink tip
Anemone had moved to the back of the tank, and there was a stringy slime where it used to be. I immediately tested the water (with quick test strips to get a general idea, I had to leave for work) and everything is testing normally. Ammonia is 0, nitrates are low, but present, nitrite is 0. What would cause this? I just glued some of my Zoas last night with Loctite Super Glue Gel (read online that it was safe) and now all of a sudden everything looks a mess. I forget the names of them, but a couple of my corals were electric green when I left my house about 6 hours ago, and now they’re brown/gray. I’ve attached pictures. I’m going to do a water change when I get home tonight, but I’m hoping everything doesn’t die in the mean time. Any ideas?

What about other parameters? How's your alkalinity?

 

[seanschaef0408]

What about other parameters? How's your alkalinity?

Not 100% sure on that one. Didn’t have time to test everything as I was leaving, but I’ll grab some buffer and test it when I get home from work. Would that cause the anemone to be acting weird, too?

 

[Oscaror]

Not 100% sure on that one. Didn’t have time to test everything as I was leaving, but I’ll grab some buffer and test it when I get home from work. Would that cause the anemone to be acting weird, too?

All inverts will generally react poorly to alk swings. I recommend testing it as soon as possible

 

[seanschaef0408]

All inverts will generally react poorly to alk swings. I recommend testing it as soon as possible

Alk is at 10.0

Nitrates and nitrites are higher than the strips suggested so I’m doing a water change now. Just hoping they haven’t bleached too much already [emoji53]

 

[Oscaror]

Alk is at 10.0

Nitrates and nitrites are higher than the strips suggested so I’m doing a water change now. Just hoping they haven’t bleached too much already [emoji53]

Yeah, you'll want to gradually lower that alk back to normal. Creating just another alk swing is no good even if you're bringing it back to proper levels.

 

[seanschaef0408]

Yeah, you'll want to gradually lower that alk back to normal. Creating just another alk swing is no good even if you're bringing it back to proper levels.

AquaCalculator is telling me that 10.0 is normal. What do most people keep theirs at?

 

[Oscaror]

AquaCalculator is telling me that 10.0 is normal. What do most people keep theirs at?

Yeah my bad I misread it, late night I'm on low power mode. Sorry