Something is very wrong

[420yoshi]

Hello guys, I have a biocube 32 with everything stock. I do a 2.5 gallon waterchange every week with no dosing and no skimmer, im running chemipure blue at the moment. Ive been having an issue where my tank is very happy for 1-2 weeks, then things go suddenly south. All my mushroom spill their guts, ive lost 2 montipora caps in a matter of hours due to this mysterious problem. Im sure its something to do with my soft corals(gsp,xenia,kenya trees) but they always seem to kill my LPS and SPS. I lost a torch a month ago, and I recenlty bought a hammer/frogspawn coral which is going through the same thing this morning. Im at a loss guys, im running carbon on top of chemipure blue and the corals look better but the hammer has mysenterial filaments coming out everywhere. I made sure no corals are touching so I think there is some sort of warfare going on. Should I move the hammer to a lower light/flow for now?
What am I doing wrong?

 

[420yoshi]

Hello guys, I have a biocube 32 with everything stock. I do a 2.5 gallon waterchange every week with no dosing and no skimmer, im running chemipure blue at the moment. Ive been having an issue where my tank is very happy for 1-2 weeks, then things go suddenly south. All my mushroom spill their guts, ive lost 2 montipora caps in a matter of hours due to this mysterious problem. Im sure its something to do with my soft corals(gsp,xenia,kenya trees) but they always seem to kill my LPS and SPS. I lost a torch a month ago, and I recenlty bought a hammer/frogspawn coral which is going through the same thing this morning. Im at a loss guys, im running carbon on top of chemipure blue and the corals look better but the hammer has mysenterial filaments coming out everywhere. I made sure no corals are touching so I think there is some sort of warfare going on. Should I move the hammer to a lower light/flow for now?
What am I doing wrong?

This is what it looked like yesterday

 

[Cell]

Age of tank and parameters needed. A full tank shot would be nice. It sounds like your tank isn't quite ready or inhabitable for coral for whatever reason.

 

[Hemmdog]

It looks like it’s not getting enough light. Translucent is not good. What lights did you put on your biocube?

 

[Cell]

Oh well that update pic makes things a bit different. I was picturing a slower death.

 

[Cell]

Is the hammer just receded or looking brown jellyish in the middle? If it's just receded, I'd give it an iodine dip. If it's BJD and stinky, it's probably a goner. I think some people have had success blowing it off and dipping and praying though.

 

[420yoshi]

It looks like it’s not getting enough light. Translucent is not good. What lights did you put on your biocube?

well its a stock biocube 32 LED light, they are white lights which make them look translucent so there is no acintic at all in this picture

 

[420yoshi]

Is the hammer just receded or looking brown jellyish in the middle? If it's just receded, I'd give it an iodine dip. If it's BJD and stinky, it's probably a goner. I think some people have had success blowing it off and dipping and praying though.

the skin on the stalk is receding, not the actual "coral/mouth" but there are alot of filaments on the tentacles, some of the tips look like they are blackish from where the filaments came out.

 

[420yoshi]

Age of tank and parameters needed. A full tank shot would be nice. It sounds like your tank isn't quite ready or inhabitable for coral for whatever reason.

Age of tank and parameters needed. A full tank shot would be nice. It sounds like your tank isn't quite ready or inhabitable for coral for whatever reason.

The tank is about 5 months old, still only have the basic reef test kit, so PH, AM, and salinity check out and are stable, i have a duncan in there and its doing fine, its fully expanded, my zoanthids closed though

Age of tank and parameters needed. A full tank shot would be nice. It sounds like your tank isn't quite ready or inhabitable for coral for whatever reason.

 

[snowhite]

If it's the stock BioCube lights... they're "challenging". You can't control the power level of the 3 different stages of light, only can control how long each stage is on. So if full light is on... it's bright... and white... and seems to have a decent amount of red in it. Algae seems to really like it.
Currently on my wifes Bio32 I have bright whites only on for a couple hours a day. But... she's more worried about softies and zoas.

It's been up about 10 months and she had some detours with it, but it's got it's act together finally.

 

[420yoshi]

Guys im dipping thehammer now, then im gonna put in a low flow/light part of the tank.

 

[Uncle99]

Without stable water chemistry which comes from testing, even softies will die over time.
Maintaining appropriate nutrients levels and calcification parameters is a must.
Providing correct spectrum and intensity is a must.
When these two things are in check, anything you drop in will thrive.

 

[420yoshi]

Without stable water chemistry which comes from testing, even softies will die over time.
Maintaining appropriate nutrients levels and calcification parameters is a must.
Providing correct spectrum and intensity is a must.
When these two things are in check, anything you drop in will thrive.

What about preventing allelopathy from softies? I really think the kenya trees are giving off toxins because they are always still opened up when everything elses is looking bad, same with pulsing xenia