Whats happening in my tank

[Avadava25]

Recently my coral went from green to this color, a day ago it started acting strange a lot of movement, I thought it was trying to pull itself off the rock, I did a water change it settled back down but changed color.
Secondly, what is this brown fuzzy stuff on my dry rock is it good or bad

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

How long have you had the tank up? Do you have a full tank shot?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Test ammonia

 

[Avadava25]

How long have you had the tank up? Do you have a full tank shot?

It's been up about a month or so

 

[Sdoutreefer]

Has it completed cycling?? A month seems young to me..

 

[Avadava25]

I thought it had, the guy at the pet store gave me a bottled bacteria to speed up the process. It was supposed to cycle in a week but I still left it longer before adding anything all the readings are at 0, no nitrate, nitrite or ammonia... The ph is not that high but I was told that would increase gradually on its own

 

[GoVols]

I thought it had, the guy at the pet store gave me a bottled bacteria to speed up the process. It was supposed to cycle in a week but I still left it longer before adding anything all the readings are at 0, no nitrate, nitrite or ammonia... The ph is not that high but I was told that would increase gradually on its own

You have a very young reef and zero nitrates is not were you want to be.
Have no clue how your ph will rise over time if you've already cycled.
If your home has too much trapped in CO2 then it can lower the ph.
Here's so guides for you and you may want to try Randy's ph-cup test. I open my windows fairly often.

ph
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rhf/

water
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/

Regards, GoVols

 

[Avadava25]

You have a very young reef and zero nitrates is not were you want to be.
Have no clue how your ph will rise over time if you've already cycled.
If your home has too much trapped in CO2 then it can lower the ph.
Here's so guides for you and you may want to try Randy's ph-cup test. I open my windows fairly often.

ph
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rhf/

water
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/

Regards, GoVols

Thank you for the info

 

[GoVols]

Thank you for the info

Your Welcome.

 

[aykwm]

Just a fast question, did you add any ammonia source? The tank won't cycle unless you have ammonia to feed the bacteria, and 0 everything might indicate there is nothing although I can see you have a fish for ammonia source, so the readings are a bit odd.
Did you check the results with other test kits.
Also for ph I never heard of it rising on its own except if you are dosing alkalinity or other minerals that affect the ph.

I would recommend you to take a water sample to your LFS to perform tests on as much parameters as possible: ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, alkalinity, salinity, and as added bonus check calcium and magnesium. I also recommend having these test kits if you want to continue adding corals. Corals need specific requirements when it comes to alkalinity, calcium, mg, and other trace elements and if the values are below requirement it might be causing these effects, a water change should solve the problem or you can dose the elements directly.

 

[Avadava25]

Just a fast question, did you add any ammonia source? The tank won't cycle unless you have ammonia to feed the bacteria, and 0 everything might indicate there is nothing although I can see you have a fish for ammonia source, so the readings are a bit odd.
Did you check the results with other test kits.
Also for ph I never heard of it rising on its own except if you are dosing alkalinity or other minerals that affect the ph.

I would recommend you to take a water sample to your LFS to perform tests on as much parameters as possible: ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph, alkalinity, salinity, and as added bonus check calcium and magnesium. I also recommend having these test kits if you want to continue adding corals. Corals need specific requirements when it comes to alkalinity, calcium, mg, and other trace elements and if the values are below requirement it might be causing these effects, a water change should solve the problem or you can dose the elements directly.

OK I will take a water sample in the morning... Any idea of the brown fuzzy stuff on my dry rock?

 

[Sdoutreefer]

Brown fuzzy stuff is most likely diatoms. Again, a sign of an incredibly young tank. Too young for corals IMO.

Just an FYI, if you're new to the hobby, fish shops like to take advantage of new people. They'll tell you whatever you want to hear just so they can make $$. I'd recommend getting your own test kits and testing your own water. Some people can be incredibly shady in this hobby.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Diatoms or slime algae. Young tanks stuff
I'd guess the coral came on the rock.

 

[Sdoutreefer]

Is it even a coral? It almost looks like a rock nem.... guess that could get easily confused with a mushroom.

Do you have fish in there??

 

[Avadava25]

Yes it came on the rock it was not my intention to get it but they couldn't get it off, and yes there is a blue damsel in there, they said it was a mushroom coral

 

[Avadava25]

How do i get rid of the diatoms

 

[Sdoutreefer]

Then that's a bonus! How big is it??

Anyways, back to topic... do you have your own basic tests? Also, if you plan to get more fish, I'd pull the damsel out. They can be super aggressive...

 

[Avadava25]

Then that's a bonus! How big is it??

Anyways, back to topic... do you have your own basic tests? Also, if you plan to get more fish, I'd pull the damsel out. They can be super aggressive...

Yes I do when I test everything reads 0 ..ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and ph is around 7.8 I was told that was fine

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yes it came on the rock it was not my intention to get it but they couldn't get it off, and yes there is a blue damsel in there, they said it was a mushroom coral

Yea.

How do i get rid of the diatoms

Don't worry about it. It's normal. Look into getting some snails. It's probably time.

Are you checking salinity with a refratimeter? Do you have an ato?

Fwiw. A tank with greasy mixed sweater and live rock does a pretty quick cycle. But a young tank still fluctuates and goes through ugly phases. Not feedingbtoo hard and a good CUC will get you through

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

A snail guide and what they eat.

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/choosing-cleanup-crew-critters.107/