wanne cry…

[Bigair]

most of my lps are dieing because of sudden salinity drop overnight, the morning I found the issue it was 1.014!

I have a pipe as drainage from skimmers cup leads to sink in the basement, as well as an auto top off system. that night the skimmer kept overflowing while the intake air tuning screw was somehow blocked by accumulated dust, it could happen in any day when it is dirty enough but I was so lucky it happened at night.so my prounded systerm did a terrible job of pumping salt water out and filled pure water in for the whole night!

and now almost lps thrink

it makes me very sad, they have being growed for three years.how can I get a relief please??!

 

[Minifoot77]

If they are not dead you can raise your salinity back up and they should be good eventually. Just try to do it slower than it happened

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I would raise your salinity slowly back up. Don't jump from .014 to .026 in an instant, or it will shock your tank.

 

[Bigair]

no help, the salinity is now raised slowly to normal but the corals are not, how weak they are. no fish is impacted luckily

 

[Bigair]

how beautiful they were, cry cry cry…

 

[Mschmidt]

So you're back to normal salinity? raising it that far in less than 24 hours is still a quick change.

It'll take a bit for them to de-stress. Try not to make any more changes and see what happens over the next few days.

 

[OrionN]

What I would do is doing water change with normal salt water daily for 4-7 days. Says 25-35%. Then continue to do top off water with Normal salt water. Think of hurricane with a lot of rain then high tide bring all the salt water back in.
Once the salinity reach normal then I would stop and switch back to top off with RO water.
This never happened to me but if it does, that would be what I would do.

 

[OrionN]

As long as they still living. You can not expect them to be back to normal right a way. If they live through it they will recover.

 

[AlyciaMarie Verified Admin]

Oh, I'm sorry this happened!

If they're going to recoup, it's going to take time. It won't get better overnight. Just focus on keeping your parameters stable and leave it all to rest. I'm also learning this lesson right now, so I feel your pain. If you've corrected the issue, the only thing left to do it leave them alone and wait.

 

[ZoWhat]

I have a 15g plastic drum that feeds my topoff system for a 180g tank + sump. I have to refill the 15g drum every 7 days using a pump from a 50g second water storage source.

If the topoff fails and floods my tank, only 15g goes in and my salinity only drops to .021

A proper setup is to assume whatever water storage thats feeding the topoff will someday flood the tank. Plan accordingly

My backup plan is I have an APEX with a salinity probe. The APEX texts my phone when it drops below a certain level...or the salinity is getting too high.

Here's a screenshot of my APEX FUSION

The water level dropped below the probe so it was reading 0 bc of no water around the probe

I know it's time to refill the 15g drum when the salinity starts creeping up bc there's no topoff water going into the system.



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[Sophie"s mom]

how beautiful they were, cry cry cry…

I agree with others, raise salinity slowly, and they should be okay.

 

[Bigair]

The mistake I made was manually turned on the ato at that night for some stupid reasons before I went to sleep. normally a timer turns it on twice for 10 minutes to avoid over pouring. but Regardless I careful I try to be, corals are indeed fragile living in our small systems. it was my bad but now thinking of this man made heaven, long last is really a magic

 

[Hans-Werner]

Don't discard corals that seem dead. LPS may regrow polyps from deep out of the skeleton after some time, simetimes even after half a year or so.

 

[Pod_01]

Don't discard corals that seem dead. LPS may regrow polyps from deep out of the skeleton after some time, simetimes even after half a year or so.

Just curious would you also keep ones that get covered in algae?

From my experience dead corals are magnet for algae… so far I didn’t have good experience with corals that perished.

Is there a method to keep dead coral so hopefully it recovers, cut a piece, keep it in dark etc…

 

[Hans-Werner]

Just curious would you also keep ones that get covered in algae?

From my experience dead corals are magnet for algae… so far I didn’t have good experience with corals that perished.

Is there a method to keep dead coral so hopefully it recovers, cut a piece, keep it in dark etc…

Yes, it is true that fresh coral skeleton is one of the very best algae substrates. Maybe in this case cyanobakteria are the better "choice".

I wouldn't worry too much about a few algae. Maybe the cleaning crew gets rid of them anyway. Usually the algal growth declines after some time when nutrients are exhausted.

 

[GARRIGA]

Don't discard corals that seem dead. LPS may regrow polyps from deep out of the skeleton after some time, simetimes even after half a year or so.

Trash can is final therefore what does it hurt to wait my thinking

 

[Bigair]

sad to tell you guys, almost all LPS are now have their bones left, which were green cyan purple, but now only white left...

 

[OrionN]

Sometime the deep tissue will sprout out small corals, especially plate corals. If you do a search, many people experiences this.

 

[Pod_01]

sad to tell you guys, almost all LPS are now have their bones left, which were green cyan purple, but now only white left...

I had mishap like this (turn the reef into freshwater), Murphy’s law.
Lot of my corals bleached some recovered and later perished. The thing with corals they may look ok for month after incident and suddenly poof. I did keep SPS and they got hit hard, LPS did better.

Some after pictures (2-3 weeks after):

My suggestion, bring the salinity up slowly and try not to do anything drastic for a month or two. Keep eye on Alk since the demand will drop. Don’t stress the corals.

I did few things too fast so at the end I lost 60% of the corals.

Good luck,