Corals dying. Help!

[Humble_Reefer]

Lost a sourpatch mushroom Sunday, then a golden frogspawn Monday, now my other frogspawn and pectinia are looking bad. I added phosguard on Sunday, and dosed some microbacter7 yesterday and today, thinking my high phosphates are the issue. Most of the rest of the tank, including zoas and acros, look fine (for now). Use the same rodi water in my frag tank and havent noticed an issue. Im at a loss.

2 yr old 65 gallon Display

Nitrate: 10 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: .159 ppm
Salinity: 1.025 SG
Alkalinity: 8 dKH
Calcium: 370 ppm
Magnesium: 1260 ppm

 

[BighohoReef]

Your phosphate is off but if you're dosing phosguard and then at some point a water change that should help. Have you tested for ammonia? Anything die in your tank recently? snail, crab?

 

[Pistondog]

Lost a sourpatch mushroom Sunday, then a golden frogspawn Monday, now my other frogspawn and pectinia are looking bad. I added phosguard on Sunday, and dosed some microbacter7 yesterday and today, thinking my high phosphates are the issue. Most of the rest of the tank, including zoas and acros, look fine (for now). Use the same rodi water in my frag tank and havent noticed an issue. Im at a loss.

2 yr old 65 gallon Display

Nitrate: 10 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Phosphate: .159 ppm
Salinity: 1.025 SG
Alkalinity: 8 dKH
Calcium: 370 ppm
Magnesium: 1260 ppm

No, your nutrient levels are not lethal, just the opposite.
Any changes recently?
Temp swings?

 

[Fishko]

How long has the head of frogspawn been like that. The one head of frogspawn looks its expelling waste, the purple stringy stuff. My torch does that pretty often if i feed it.

 

[Humble_Reefer]

Your phosphate is off but if you're dosing phosguard and then at some point a water change that should help. Have you tested for ammonia? Anything die in your tank recently? snail, crab?

Nothing that I know died that I think would cause and issue in a 65 gal. All my fish are still alive.

No, your nutrient levels are not lethal, just the opposite.
Any changes recently?
Temp swings?

10 gallon water change Monday. Refilled the dosing containers with bionic 2 part recently. No changes in temp. Fragged some zoas and acros with my dremel two days ago.

How long has the head of frogspawn been like that. The one head of frogspawn looks its expelling waste, the purple stringy stuff. My torch does that pretty often if i feed it.

I though this too at first. The pectinia is rectracting so much its tissue is splitting though. In context with the other corals dying randomly I am worried its more than just a case of the pooping corals... Three of the heads have been semi retracted for since the golden frogspawn died, and the one head fully retracted in the last couple hours.

 

[Pistondog]

Nothing that I know died that I think would cause and issue in a 65 gal. All my fish are still alive.



10 gallon water change Monday. Refilled the dosing containers with bionic 2 part recently. No changes in temp. Fragged some zoas and acros with my dremel two days ago.



I though this too at first. The pectinia is rectracting so much its tissue is splitting though. In context with the other corals dying randomly I am worried its more than just a case of the pooping corals... Three of the heads have been semi retracted for since the golden frogspawn died, and the one head fully retracted in the last couple hours.

Run the gac. Fragging put stuff in the water.

 

[HuduVudu]

Refilled the dosing containers with bionic 2 part recently.

What is your dosing regimen?

 

[Humble_Reefer]

Run the gac. Fragging put stuff in the water.

I forgot to say I did renew a bag of carbon (no reactor) shortly after fragging for this purpose. Man, I really changed too much at once! Too many variables now.

What is your dosing regimen?

2x 6ml of alk and caclium per day with a bubblemagus doser.

 

[Humble_Reefer]

Something noteable: phosphate number in oringal post was from yesterday morning (was trying to save my last reagent). Hanna checker now says 0.089, so down .07 from the .159 yesterday. Is phosphate dropping too fast an issue, or is it more the spikes that are dangerous?

 

[Pistondog]

Something noteable: phosphate number in oringal post was from yesterday morning (was trying to save my last reagent). Hanna checker now says 0.089, so down .7 from the .159 yesterday. Is phosphate dropping too fast an issue, or is it more the spikes that are dangerous?

Down 0.07, not a contributor to the problem.
Can drop 0.5/ day before concern.

 

[HuduVudu]

I forgot to say I did renew a bag of carbon (no reactor) shortly after fragging for this purpose. Man, I really changed too much at once! Too many variables now.



2x 6ml of alk and caclium per day with a bubblemagus doser.

One last question ... sorry ... how often and how much do you water change?

and one more ... how long has your tank been up?

 

[Humble_Reefer]

Down 0.07, not a contributor to the problem.
Can drop 0.5/ day before concern.

Woops, fixed that. Okay, good to know.

One last question ... sorry ... how often and how much do you water change?

Ask as many as you like, the help is much appreciated.I do 5-10 gallons every week or two. I'm not super consistent usually, but since trying to bring down phosphates I've been changing 5 or 10 every week for 5 weeks.

 

[HuduVudu]

Ask as many as you like, the help is much appreciated.I do 5-10 gallons every week or two. I'm not super consistent usually, but since trying to bring down phosphates I've been changing 5 or 10 every week for 5 weeks.

How big is your tank?

 

[Humble_Reefer]

How big is your tank?

65 display 20 sump. Probably more like 65-70 gal volume after subtracting the volume of rock

 

[HuduVudu]

65 display 20 sump. Probably more like 65-70 gal volume after subtracting the volume of rock

I missed your response on how long you had had your tank up.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

I missed your response on how long you had had your tank up.

First post stated it was a 2yr old tank

 

[HuduVudu]

2x 6ml of alk and caclium per day with a bubblemagus doser.

Have you experienced any upward salinity movement over the course of time that you have been dosing?

How long have you been dosing?

 

[Thespammailaccount]

What is the temp? Can you double check. Looks like brown jelly

 

[schuby]

Your phosphate number looks like ppb. Are you sure it's ppm?

 

[fishguy242]

i agree, if head has bjd remove from tank trying not to blow it off ,remove head,the head i see is questionable ,bjd,or pooping,google brown jelly disease if not familiar ,can spread fast