Plate coral!

[Dominic Prezwanski]

So I’ve had this plate coral for a couple months now and it’s been doing fine.

I have recently had an ich breakout so I’ve removed all the fish and the tanks has been fallow for almost a month now.

About a week ago I started dosing the DT with Ruby kick-ich (which also involves switching off the slimmer and removing carbon) under instructions from the owner of my lfs and against some people on here :/

Anyway since then last night my BTA (which has been absolutely stunning and eating like a pig) split into two and more importantly my plate corals mouth is looking a little sick...

I feed it often and all has been well, it ate today but I’m still concerned. I have moved it to a flatter service a little lower the sand.

Do you guys think it’s a goner?

Additionally I had raised the temps to 81f about three weeks ago to increase the ich cycle.

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

The first image was of the bta before it split and I’m not sure you can see the mouth of the plate coral

 

[eatbreakfast]

Anything that will kill ich, will also kill corals. What's the active ingredient?

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

I realise the concept however this brand states it’s reef safe. (Yes I know they say there is no reef safe brands...)

I have immediately ceased using it today and put the skinner/carbon back in the system.

The packaging does not state the active ingredients however it does say at the front “no copper reef safe”

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

All other corals/frags look good

 

[eatbreakfast]

And not suspicious of something that doesn't list its ingredients instead states "not copper".

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

I see where you’re heading. I did hear good reviews from others. Alas.... will the plate heal?

 

[Hogan]

Raising the temp to 81 can freak out the plate.

 

[RyanSweet]

In my opinion, go back to what you were doing before trying the Ick "cure". Don't use it anymore, test your parameters, and do a water change to remove as much of the chemical as possible. Let the tank stay fallow for as long as it takes but still feed your corals and do what you were doing when things looked good. Inverts don't like change and can be affected by just about everything that you've stated you changed.

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

That’s the plan!

My next question is, my Chaeto has gone bonkers and equally the amount of pods and other little critters.

As there are no fish to pick at them can they become overwhelming for the corals?

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

Hogan, I would imagine so however it’s been this temp for three weeks now... I will slowly drop it down a few degrees

 

[KMench]

I believe it has formalin or malachite green in it if I remember correctly @eatbreakfast. Do some google searches, and you’ll find some other people who say they had issues with hard corals after dosing it. If your DT is fallow, there’s no point in dosing it. Just wait the fallow period for ich and you’ll be set! In the mean time run some carbon and do some water changes to get it out of your system.



Found it! Formalin is the active ingredient.

 

[MnFish1]

I believe it has formalin or malachite green in it if I remember correctly @eatbreakfast. Do some google searches, and you’ll find some other people who say they had issues with hard corals after dosing it. If your DT is fallow, there’s no point in dosing it. Just wait the fallow period for ich and you’ll be set! In the mean time run some carbon and do some water changes to get it out of your system.
Found it! Formalin is the active ingredient.

According to references its 5-nitroimadazole

 

[Maritimer]

Definitely not good for corals...

My advice would be to stop using the Kick-Ich, add in carbon, crank up the skimmer, and start doing water changes. Pods can go nuts, shouldn't bother the corals, unless they're already very weak. (From the Kick-Ich?) When you add fish back in, they, in turn, will go nuts on the 'pods.

If you do happen to lose the plate, _don't_ remove the skeleton. Plates can produce babies from the skeletons of colonies that have "died".

~Bruce

 

[KMench]

According to references its 5-nitroimadazole

Hmmm I see that too. Found someone else who posted it was formalin. Maybe they had it mixed up with ich-x.

 

[MnFish1]

Definitely not good for corals...

My advice would be to stop using the Kick-Ich, add in carbon, crank up the skimmer, and start doing water changes. Pods can go nuts, shouldn't bother the corals, unless they're already very weak. (From the Kick-Ich?) When you add fish back in, they, in turn, will go nuts on the 'pods.

If you do happen to lose the plate, _don't_ remove the skeleton. Plates can produce babies from the skeletons of colonies that have "died".

~Bruce

Not a fan of Kick ich - but Im not sure that its causing the problem he is having. Couldn't it be the temp increase and nutrient changes just as easily. Kick ich is not supposed to damage or affect corals at all. (whether it helps ich I have no clue)

 

[Maritimer]

I tried it once - all of my corals immediately went into unhappy mode, and a few never recovered.

~Bruce

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

This is the worst! On a side note all the fish in the qt are doing really really well! Kinda wish I qt the coral and just dosed the DT

 

[Dominic Prezwanski]

By the way, thanks everyone for contributing!!

 

[Rakie]

If the plate dies, keep it in tank. Very often when plates die they have a bunch of clones (babies) that seem to emerge from seemingly nowhere. Some people believe it's the last thing a dying plate will do to survive in some form, and keep it's DNA out in the wild. Which is the goal of every animal out there.