Please Help, Gonipora is dying!

[ReefKing101]

My Gonipora has been going downhill for weeks now and I have no idea why. Nothings changed that i know of. There is a dead bleached SPS still in the tank could that be causing it?

I do Water changes every week or 2 weeks, I have been quite slack though.
96L tank about 9 months old
2 clowns/2 chromis
Lights on around 12-14 hours a day
1 coral banded shrimp

Temp: 25-27.5c
Salinity: 35PPT
Nitrates: 10-20ppm
Nitrites: 0.05ppm
Phosphates around 0.30ish (way to high trying to bring down)
Calcium: 450
Alk 10.7
PH: 8.2
Mag: 1600+

 

[brmreefer]

If that were my system and parameters I would work on the following:

- Temperature swings are too much. Try and stabilize.
- Mg is high - My system hovers around 1440-1400 ppm.
- Already addressing the high phosphates - G2G, but keep working it.
- System should have no nitrites
- Ultimate goal should be "constant stable parameters," but understandably smaller systems can be a challenge.

My main priority for that system would be to try and minimize those aggressive temperature swings. Just my thoughts from the info provided. Hope that helps.

 

[ShepherdReefer]

I have a question, do you feed them...if so, how often?

 

[MakerofThings]

My Gonipora has been going downhill for weeks now and I have no idea why. Nothings changed that i know of. There is a dead bleached SPS still in the tank could that be causing it?

I do Water changes every week or 2 weeks, I have been quite slack though.
96L tank about 9 months old
2 clowns/2 chromis
Lights on around 12-14 hours a day
1 coral banded shrimp

Temp: 25-27.5c
Salinity: 35PPT
Nitrates: 10-20ppm
Nitrites: 0.05ppm
Phosphates around 0.30ish (way to high trying to bring down)
Calcium: 450
Alk 10.7
PH: 8.2
Mag: 1600+

Looks like a wild green one, they almost all do this in aquariums. I've never heard of one lasting more than a year or so. Sorry! I'd be making sure the brown jelly (looks like it has BJD) doesn't spread to other LPS in the tank.

 

[Auto-pilot]

It's most definitely got brown jelly!!!!! Use peroxide and a eye dropper to target the brown jelly to kill and or mitigate it. Then
Do a 50 50 1 minute dip in peroxide. Iodine has never stopped a brown jelly disease for me but if you do an iodine dip they do help. I also experiment with antibiotics and that is the best route to stopping an infection if you ask me but most people dont have antibiotics. Brown jelly a mixture of mostly gram positive bacteria and protozoa, both can be killed with amoxicillin maybe penicillin
I do a peroxide dip sooner than later.. most of these infections wont wait untill tomorrow