Things are dieing, but I have information...need help

[Rtaylor]

Sounds like brown jelly disease which is contagious and nearly 100% fatal. Affected lps should be separated into a separate tank from healthy lps for any chance at saving anything. Some people have had some success with bjd using cipro, but usually it must be caught and treated very early.

 

[Dburr1014]

Sounds like brown jelly disease which is contagious and nearly 100% fatal. Affected lps should be separated into a separate tank from healthy lps for any chance at saving anything. Some people have had some success with bjd using cipro, but usually it must be caught and treated very early.

Did I miss where the OP said he saw brown jelly?

 

[Nano sapiens]

Here is what I see. Its a relatively new tank, only 3 months old, and its a 10 gallon so very small.

Its hard to maintain parameters in a 3 month old tank, but when you have 2 fish in a 10 gallon, the parameters will change every time you feed. Adding reef rods to such a small tank will have hige impact on phosphate levels. I don't think this tank has a skimmer, right? So its a big change to the system every week when you change the water.

Its sounds like a lot of tinkering in this tank in 3 months (adding corals, testing, etc...), the more you tinker the greater chance for error somewhere. Even forgetting to clean you hands can be a problem, much more so in a 10 gallon compared to a 50 gallon for example. Likewise, more tinkering in a small tank compared to large tank leads to more chance for error.

Torch is also one of the more finicky corals, compared to others.

I don't see any one or two things to change that will make everything suddenly happy again. I think you're still learning and your tank is still maturing and you are going pretty fast. Just my worthless 2 cents

Certainly not worthless! Rather spot on, actually.

I started my current 12g with live rock/live sand from a 9 year old 55g and even with a complete reef microbiome I still had issues early on with zoanthids melting and Brown Jelly, especially Micromussa species (for BJ, all it takes is one injured/infected specimen to start a chain reaction in others). A more stable environment was noted around the one year mark, but what I consider true maturity occurred around year three.

1. Maintaining as stable a system as possible (especially in the first year or two) is essential to the development of a truly mature system that can optimally support all types of coral/false coral.

2. Never buy LPS coral that has a fresh injury or any signs of infection.

 

[FlyinAg]

Yep was the green torch. Yep brownish jelly. Put it in a ziplock and it was just brown liquid clear slime. I have a feeling the other in the middle is next. I am trying to find a LFS that is open today to get chemiclean don't know what else to do.

Did I miss where the OP said he saw brown jelly?

 

[peted]

+1 to all this.

I also have 2 questions...

1) did you actually mix the bucket of salts before you started using it? The salt settles. Maybe the calcium settled to the bottom.

2) in the original post you posted your parameters.
PH says 8.1, under that it says "the power of hydrogen". What does that mean?? Are you using h2o2 for something?

Calcium was a test reading error on my part. I posted corrected results.
My app just had "power". I didn't change it, yes its ph. No h2o2

 

[peted]

As an update. Nothing else has died....yet. 1 torch and hammer are mostly closed, but hopefully they open after a water change. I added the chemiclean yesterday, I will follow directions and do a 20+ % water change tomorrow.
Retested some parameters just now.
Phosphates looked like they dropped a bit, color is about .03 now.
Nitrates look like they have gone up to maybe 15ppm
ph 7.9 ish
salinity is 1.025
temp is 77.6
I tested nitrite, just cause nitrate was higher than 2 days ago. zero
didn't test mag or cal.

surprised phosphates went down a noticeable amount on the salifert. Especially since I removed the chemipure blue when adding the chemiclean.

I will provide another update a day or two after water change. Current test and photos Attached

 

[peted]

As an update. Nothing else has died....yet. 1 torch and hammer are mostly closed, but hopefully they open after a water change. I added the chemiclean yesterday, I will follow directions and do a 20+ % water change tomorrow.
Retested some parameters just now.
Phosphates looked like they dropped a bit, color is about .03 now.
Nitrates look like they have gone up to maybe 15ppm
ph 7.9 ish
salinity is 1.025
temp is 77.6
I tested nitrite, just cause nitrate was higher than 2 days ago. zero
didn't test mag or cal.

surprised phosphates went down a noticeable amount on the salifert. Especially since I removed the chemipure blue when adding the chemiclean.

I will provide another update a day or two after water change. Current test and photos Attached

So I did a 20% waterchange yesterday evening. Nothing else died since I added the chemiclean.
Retested water now and took new pics. Hammer is 50% open. The middle torch looks to be still curled in the middle tentacles. But overall I think the chemiclean stopped whatever it was.