Whats going on?

[vabben]

Yesterday morning I noticed my goniestra with some tissue recession, I figured my elegance just stung it. But today it has lost almost all its color, my torches are closed up, a green favia is now red, and looks like I have some tissue recession on a trachy. There are some questionable sponges with what look like fiberglass coming out of them. Any ideas what could be my issue? Should I order an ICP or are the sponges my problem?

Parameters all look to be good.
8.2 dkh
440 Cal
7.9 PH
.09 PO4
12 NO3

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[vetteguy53081]

A few things that can cause this :

-An alk spike
- stung by a coral within 3”
- being on the bottom, sand got on it
- reg or black bugs underneath
- too bright or inadequate lighting

 

[vabben]

A few things that can cause this :

-An alk spike
- stung by a coral within 3”
- being on the bottom, sand got on it
- reg or black bugs underneath
- too bright or inadequate lighting

Out of this list, I think Alk spike might be a possibility. I manually dose BRS soda ash, and when I dosed Sunday I accidentally dumped the amount faster than normal. Could adding soda ash quickly to a tank cause the alk spike?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Out of this list, I think Alk spike might be a possibility. I manually dose BRS soda ash, and when I dosed Sunday I accidentally dumped the amount faster than normal. Could adding soda ash quickly to a tank cause the alk spike?

That would likely do it

 

[vabben]

That would likely do it

Looks like I need to pull the trigger on a dosing pump! Do corals usually recover from an alk spike? Any suggestions to help them recover?

 

[vabben]

Any idea on how to help the corals survive? Corals are still on the decline, looks like I lost a torch last night and a scoly is on its way out.