corals not opening.

[kadruy]

hello everyone so if anyone is out there and can help me that would be great. so i went in vaction a week ago and i did a water change like normal but cleaned out the filter and put new carbon in. when i got back all my corals looked like they do in the pictures below and i am very worried. could it be from the new carbon since i didn’t change it in awhile?? my levels are Ph-8.0 it’s a little low. ammonia-0 ppm, nitrite- 0ppm, nitrate-10ppm, calcium-480, alkalinity-196ppm or 9dkh, and phosphate is at 0. i am very worried and i don’t know what to do. if anyone could help me that would be truly amazing and i would be very grateful!

 

[blaxsun]

Parameters look fine. Anything else change?

 

[Lavey29]

Phosphate is 0 and needs to be .05 to .1. What is your salinity and how old is the tank? Do you use RODI?

 

[vetteguy53081]

hello everyone so if anyone is out there and can help me that would be great. so i went in vaction a week ago and i did a water change like normal but cleaned out the filter and put new carbon in. when i got back all my corals looked like they do in the pictures below and i am very worried. could it be from the new carbon since i didn’t change it in awhile?? my levels are Ph-8.0 it’s a little low. ammonia-0 ppm, nitrite- 0ppm, nitrate-10ppm, calcium-480, alkalinity-196ppm or 9dkh, and phosphate is at 0. i am very worried and i don’t know what to do. if anyone could help me that would be truly amazing and i would be very grateful!

First thing to do is to elevate them as they may be getting irritated by sand. Then give them gentle bursts from a turkey baster as im sure there is sediment irritating them. I can also guess there is lack of water flow at their present location. The light may be too intense hence the euphyllia being retracted. Most of the coral I see are fine under moderate light heavy in blue and moderate flow.

 

[Dom]

Why are you running carbon?

 

[kadruy]

Parameters look fine. Anything else change?

no just that and my cleaner shrimp died as well. just very worried about my corals

 

[kadruy]

Phosphate is 0 and needs to be .05 to .1. What is your salinity and how old is the tank? Do you use RODI?

okay, salinity is 1.027-1.028 right now it’s a bit high and i know it needs to come down also yes i do

 

[kadruy]

Why are you running carbon?

should i not be running it?

 

[kadruy]

First thing to do is to elevate them as they may be getting irritated by sand. Then give them gentle bursts from a turkey baster as im sure there is sediment irritating them. I can also guess there is lack of water flow at their present location. The light may be too intense hence the euphyllia being retracted. Most of the coral I see are fine under moderate light heavy in blue and moderate flow.

okay thank you so much. i will try this!

 

[workhz]

It's more of an emergency than the previous 'will my 36" lights fit my tank' or whatever it was. You can lead a horse to water ....

 

[Dom]

should i not be running it?

Usually, people run carbon when they want to remove some kind of contaminant from the water.

Do you suspect that your water may have become contaminated in some way?

 

[CoralB]

Be a hero and don’t let your Phosphates go to zero .bring them up . Reef roids , pellet food or over feed a little will bring them up . This alone could be the issue

 

[I never finish anythi]

Sometimes I have to ask my wife 5x before I get an answer too

Only 5 . You must have found a good one then

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

i would suggest to post a full tank shot, explain more about your tank filtration and lighting and flow. Carbon, and one week absense, should not other corals, and as mentioned above, there should be a purpose to running carbon, sounds like you are not sure.

Even the zoa's are closed, to me thats an indication that something is off in your tank. Cannot find the problem in the 5 parameters you listed, we need to look deeper.

 

[kadruy]

Be a hero and don’t let your Phosphates go to zero .bring them up . Reef roids , pellet food or over feed a little will bring them up . This alone could be the issue

okay thank you

 

[kadruy]

i would suggest to post a full tank shot, explain more about your tank filtration and lighting and flow. Carbon, and one week absense, should not other corals, and as mentioned above, there should be a purpose to running carbon, sounds like you are not sure.

Even the zoa's are closed, to me thats an indication that something is off in your tank. Cannot find the problem in the 5 parameters you listed, we need to look deeper.

so my tanks about 5 months old and it’s been running good. i’ve had the hammer for about 3 months and it was growing good under my light becuase it crew it’s second head, then i got my frogspawn and it was doing good as well and same with the zoas for about 1 month. then i did this water changed but first i scraped a lot of dark green algae off the back wall to start with the water change before my vaction and it got everywhere. i got what i saw and got most of it. my filter is a canister filter. i know they’re not as good as other filters but i’m saving money for a better filtration system. but in the filter i run like phosphate pads, nitrate pads, then carbon packets, ammonia packet and 1 nitrite packet. there’s also like these cylinder things i run it it to help with the filtration and biological bacteria. i cleaned out my filter as well with this water change and i don’t usally do that every water change. did i throw a differnet level off that i don’t know about when i did all that? could it be some kind of bacterial bloom?
should i removed the carbon from my filter?

 

[Lavey29]

so my tanks about 5 months old and it’s been running good. i’ve had the hammer for about 3 months and it was growing good under my light becuase it crew it’s second head, then i got my frogspawn and it was doing good as well and same with the zoas for about 1 month. then i did this water changed but first i scraped a lot of dark green algae off the back wall to start with the water change before my vaction and it got everywhere. i got what i saw and got most of it. my filter is a canister filter. i know they’re not as good as other filters but i’m saving money for a better filtration system. but in the filter i run like phosphate pads, nitrate pads, then carbon packets, ammonia packet and 1 nitrite packet. there’s also like these cylinder things i run it it to help with the filtration and biological bacteria. i cleaned out my filter as well with this water change and i don’t usally do that every water change. did i throw a differnet level off that i don’t know about when i did all that? could it be some kind of bacterial bloom?
should i removed the carbon from my filter?

At 5 months old you are right in the middle of the ugly phases. You will experience various types of algae over the course of the first year.