Corals dying..

Mussin · Mar 10, 2016

My elegance looks in bad shape as well..

When I did my big water change I took out all of my live rock and scrubbed some of it because hydroids were growing on a few pieces. I re arranged some rock and coral.

Mussin · Mar 10, 2016

Here's what it looked like about a month ago.

Seems like once I lost my big lobo everything went down hill.

Jeremy

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sevens_up77 · Mar 10, 2016

Could it be high alk with low nutrients? Since you posted a range of 0-.25 nitrates and not tested phosphate assuming your nitrate is on low end and your alk is 11.

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jsker · Mar 10, 2016

Outside of what you are doing for the tank, is there something going on the outside Enviroment? Such as some kind of new cleaning product being used, or a new cleaning person using products around the tank that are not supposed to be used?

Mussin · Mar 10, 2016

No. Only thing I can think of is when I did a 60 gallon water change . I bought 30g from my lfs. They use tropic Marin salt I use Kent sea salt. Would that be a problem?

Bunnee911 · Mar 10, 2016

Did you buy your tank new?

Cory · Mar 11, 2016

I bet its phosphate judging by how clean and algae free it looks.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 11, 2016

Mussin said:
No. Only thing I can think of is when I did a 60 gallon water change . I bought 30g from my lfs. They use tropic Marin salt I use Kent sea salt. Would that be a problem?

No, that should not be an issue, if it really is what they claim.

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 11, 2016

Kershaw said:
I don't really know what the problem is. But I had this same thing Happen a few years ago. My tank went from perfectly healthy to loosing 90% of all my lps. All other inverts and sps where fine. Lost about 900 in lps. Only think that lived was a Duncan. But it barely made it. I tested my water with 2 different kits and took water to two stores. All looked great. Only thing I can thing of is it was some type of bacteria that attacks lps. I hope you figure it out. I never did.

Unfortunately, that result is all too common and folks never really know what happened.

Sorry it happened to you. ;(

Randy Holmes-Farley · Mar 11, 2016

Mussin said:
I've been fighting a lot of coral loss for the last 2weeks. I have a 90g tank and a 30g sump. I did a 20g water change when I noticed the corals not opening up about 2 weeks ago. No change, did another 20g change, no change.... After a couple of days and all my hammer dying I did a massive water change (60 g ). I can't figure out what's going on here. Seems like all my brains had thier white stringy guts out, I've lost a couple nice wellsos, huge maze brain, Duncan's, hammers, zoas melting.

Ok got my test kits yesterday just tested the water. These are Salifert test kits.

Temp - 79
Salinity- 1.026
Mg - 1485
Cal - 500
Alk - 10.9

I tested with my api kits to compare the alk was 11 and the cal was 520. Anyone see anything jumping out at you?

I Just can't figure it out.

Jeremy

One possibility for a general rapid decline in corals, aside from a bacteria problem that was mentioned is a toxin, such as copper, but other inverts should be having issues as well, at least from copper.

How long has the tank been up?

Tanggirl12 · Mar 11, 2016

Corals turning brown could be phosphates, I'd get a test kit

freakit · Mar 11, 2016

That rock up top in the FTS looks new (I know you re arranged your rock work). If it's a new rock I would take a closer look at it and remove it. If it's not new and is that new looking that tells me it was in the sand and you disturbed the sand pulling it out which could cause problems.

dricc · Mar 11, 2016

do you run carbon? I think I see leather corals . it could be chemical warfare. carbon should help.

Pygmey · Mar 11, 2016

Yeah I would get a bag of chemipure or regular carbon and get that running in there.

Mussin · Mar 11, 2016

Tank has been cycled since August 2012. I have a phosphate test kit , have to go pick it up this afternoon. The Rock is new but I put it in after everything started going south. I always run a couple big bags of carbon. I have extra carbon in the sump hasn't seen to help. Thanks for all the help guys.. Hopefully it works it self out..

DeniseAndy · Mar 11, 2016

Is that leather a neon green palua nepthea? Or even a sinularia? If so, that will cause a lot of damage to lps through toxic warfare. As they grow as your looks like it has, it because lethal. I could not keep any of those beautiful brains within about 12" of my nepthea in my 210g with tons of flow and carbon.

If you begin to see any signs of brown jelly on the lps, take them out into a qt tank and run antibiotics on them for 4-6 hours. Then if you can put in a temporary tank to recover. If not, put them back in display and may have to repeat. I have saved lps this method. However, I did have to get a 40g set up to really save them and get them out of my system. (However, mine is not just the nepthea, but gorgs - big difference.)

Gorgeous brains. I hope you save them.

dricc · Mar 11, 2016

one thing i read about years ago is how leathers are very toxic to other corals.Maybe you could find the leathers a new home?

Kungpaoshizi · Mar 11, 2016

+1 to leathers being tricky for allelopathy
I do know my red and green war coral goes maroon if I don't feed enough.. (I try to keep nitrates between 1-5 and po4 between .04-.08)