Corals refuse to open after treating tank for dinos

[Chris_Noles]

My SPS (mainly) have looked like this for over a month (no polyp extension at all) right as I starting fighting dinos, it’s been about 2 weeks after treatment for dinos and my corals look horrible. What can I do to bring them back?

 

[Pistondog]

My SPS (mainly) have looked like this for over a month (no polyp extension at all) right as I starting fighting dinos, it’s been about 2 weeks after treatment for dinos and my corals look horrible. What can I do to bring them back?

Sorry, can't help without more info.
What are your water parameters and how did you treat dinos.

 

[ZoWhat]

Sell them on Craigslist

 

[vtecintegra]

All I can say is good luck. Nothing worked for me. I only had soft corals and a couple of hammers, and the dinos took out 80%. Then I used dinox, and that took out the rest. I started a new tank. Second go, I seeded new caribsea rock with live sand out of the gulf for a couple of months before setting things up. My philosophy was getting the ocean microbes, without the rock hitchhikers.

 

[Chris_Noles]

Sorry, can't help without more info.
What are your water parameters and how did you treat dinos.

8.8 Alk
450 Cal
1450 mag

 

[Chris_Noles]

8.8 Alk
450 Cal
1450 mag

Sorry, can't help without more info.
What are your water parameters and how did you treat dinos.

Also I treated my tank with bottled bacteria and hydrogen peroxide, dimmed the lights and ran a UV Sterilizer

 

[brandon429]

If you want to save your tank, rip clean it


next time you get dinos, don’t do that same original action you can see corals don’t like it. Corals like to be in rip cleaned tanks however.

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[Fourstars]

Time and they will cover. It would also help to know your nitrate and phosphate.

 

[MONTANTK]

Knowing your nutrients is important. Treating for Dinos won’t do anything if your tank doesn’t have any nutrients

 

[DeniableArc]

Sell them on Craigslist

Very positive constructive input. As usual.

 

[brandon429]

I thought it was hilarious in context

theres trolling due to being obviously bad individual and then there’s veiled humor / telling people opposite of what they want to hear which is both funny and delightful and gets used on me too occasionally and it’s funny

it also makes me laugh as Craigslist for a dumping ground of bryopsis rocks and frags from dino wipeouts wiped clean but with the secret destiny to wipe out some other new tank.

 

[Chris_Noles]

Knowing your nutrients is important. Treating for Dinos won’t do anything if your tank doesn’t have any nutrients

Will check them today, last time I dosed to raise nutrients I had algae go out of control

 

[MONTANTK]

Will check them today, last time I dosed to raise nutrients I had algae go out of control

How long has your tank been running?

 

[Chris_Noles]

How long has your tank been running?

8 months

 

[MONTANTK]

8 months

Could just be your rock and sand haven’t absorbed a lot of nutrients yet. If they are truly low, adding a little bit of NO3 and PO4 won’t hurt. If they spike too high a quick water change should do the trick

 

[ggNoRe]

I'm in a similar boat. Dinos have been gone for about a month or 2. Unfortunately 80% corals didn't make it and rest are recovering VERY slowly. I find nothing I did helps them recover faster in fact quite opposite. The only thing helping is patience and stability.

 

[Chris_Noles]

Could just be your rock and sand haven’t absorbed a lot of nutrients yet. If they are truly low, adding a little bit of NO3 and PO4 won’t hurt. If they spike too high a quick water change should do the trick

Idk if this counts for anything but I have some corralline growing on my powerhead, I might try dosing a little bit of nitrates and phosphates again and see what happens, my skimmer has been off for a week so they all might spike very quickly.

 

[Chris_Noles]

I'm in a similar boat. Dinos have been gone for about a month or 2. Unfortunately 80% corals didn't make it and rest are recovering VERY slowly. I find nothing I did helps them recover faster in fact quite opposite. The only thing helping is patience and stability.

This is what I was afraid of, most of the corals still have color but refuse to extend

 

[Fourstars]

If you state I’ll dose a little again without knowing your levels the that’s probably why you had an out break, you need to test often. Since it’s a new tank don’t dose phosphates just get your nitrates up. Run your UV and manually remove without stirring things up to much. When you go in to siphon run one of these for a few hours ever time you do maintenance.

 

[Chiraq]

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My SPS (mainly) have looked like this for over a month (no polyp extension at all) right as I starting fighting dinos, it’s been about 2 weeks after treatment for dinos and my corals look horrible. What can I do to bring them back?

Few steps you can take:

1- Use a powerhead to blast off the dinos off the rocks (I'm assuming you have a filter sock to catch debris). If not, Siphon as much as you can off the rocks.
2- Raise your nutrient level.
3- Add a Chaeto culture to your sump/refuge.
4- Blackout the display system for a couple of days while you do the above.
5- Add carbon media.

Raise your nutrient level by adding Chaeto, Pods and Phyto