Help please.

[Korallz]

Over the last week I've lost a clownfish and I believe a Toadstool coral. My water parameters are normal I only use RODI water when I top off. I feed once a day and yet I'm having major issues. I'm worried I need to restart my tank. I'm going to attach a few files showing what my Toadstool started as and what it looks like now

 

[fishguy242]

hi welcome to the reef,,first i would take it out cut the good off throw rest away ,pretty hardy coral,i will bleed white smoke little when cut should be able to save some but get rid of that rot

 

[IKD]

Did that coral deteriorate quickly (few days?). What lighting do you have? Also, what happened with the clown? Did it show any signs of illness or odd behavior before dying?

 

[The Aquatic Arsenal]

Can you post all the parameters you tested? I agree with cutting the dead off the toadstool as well.

 

[drivingmecrazy]

Could you kindly share your system with us and how it is setup.

Do you have a auto top off system?
Do you dose?
The age of your system?

 

[Korallz]

Could you kindly share your system with us and how it is setup.

Do you have a auto top off system?
Do you dose?
The age of your system?

Honestly is a newer system that's ran for about a month now. It's an 18 gallon AIO from CVue running pretty stock. It's got a kessil a80 light. I believe I made a major rookie mistake and the tank may of not been completely cycled and I had a large Diatom bloom. The one clown I have is fine and I have small stomatella snails cleaning the algae off my live rocks. I believe in my excitement I got in a rush and made a costly mistake. I don't know how I missed it but I wasn't paying attention and completely didn't think about the Diatom bloom every new tank has.

 

[IKD]

Sounds like you isolated the issue! I have to go through the same patience test soon with a new tank starting up.

 

[Korallz]

Sounds like you isolated the issue! I have to go through the same patience test soon with a new tank starting up.

Well I wish you the best of luck. I thought I had done it and found out the hard way. I'm not 100% sure if it was my issue because I'm pretty green to the hobby but I think that's what it was.

 

[Uncle99]

Corals, even softies, need stability in the water chemistry which is not found in newer tanks.
Toadstools can look great one day, and withdrawal the next, this is a normal part of their growth stage during which they may shed or start to divide.

But you got to make sure your water chemistry is on point, in all 8 categories, and that the levels remain stable with as little of flux as possible.

If you are keeping leathers, (or gorgonians or shrimps for that matter) you want to make sure that you maintain an iodide level of 0.03-0.06, this will help them shed their skins, and, make sure ALK is in the lower range (say 8-9) as higher ALK makes toadstools lie down.

 

[fishguy242]

awesome pic

 

[drivingmecrazy]

Honestly is a newer system that's ran for about a month now. It's an 18 gallon AIO from CVue running pretty stock. It's got a kessil a80 light. I believe I made a major rookie mistake and the tank may of not been completely cycled and I had a large Diatom bloom. The one clown I have is fine and I have small stomatella snails cleaning the algae off my live rocks. I believe in my excitement I got in a rush and made a costly mistake. I don't know how I missed it but I wasn't paying attention and completely didn't think about the Diatom bloom every new tank has.

I apologize for not being able to respond.

I agree with others on this. And I do think you have isolated your problem.

Take it slow, be patient. And don't let it drive you crazy