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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 8, 2016 7:28:13 GMT -5
Last night before going to bed I thought that my tank looked kind of cloudy. When I went to check it out, I noticed that about half of my frogspawn colony had turned into a milky colored slimy mess. When I removed the bad heads all of the tissues spread throughout the tank. Is this cool bleaching? I put new lights on last week and was worried I had them turned up to high. If not, any other ideas of what may have caused this?
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Post by foggman on Mar 8, 2016 8:35:07 GMT -5
Not sure what may have caused it but if your not already I would be running carbon or you could end up loosing your tank probably do a water change too.
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Post by foggman on Mar 8, 2016 8:35:33 GMT -5
Is there any other coral close to it?
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 8, 2016 11:27:55 GMT -5
Have you checked your water parameters?
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 8, 2016 13:11:12 GMT -5
Have you checked your water parameters? Not one for testing. Haven't done it in over 20 years. Waste if money cause they're never accurate. There was a Duncan coral above it. Not sure if that would have done it. Plan on doing water change when I get home. Couldn't tell how things were this morning because the lights were off when I left at 4 this morning |
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Post by scoobnoob on Mar 8, 2016 14:50:12 GMT -5
Mine melted like that when a heater got stuck on tank was 86 degrees. Possible temp change?
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Post by speedyron on Mar 8, 2016 17:12:48 GMT -5
Get some carbon going soak that crap up
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 8, 2016 17:55:21 GMT -5
Mine melted like that when a heater got stuck on tank was 86 degrees. Possible temp change? maybe, I noticed it seemed kinda cool |
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 8, 2016 18:27:21 GMT -5
Ok so just got home. 4 more heads and an encrusting sps I got from scoob(not sure what it is) dead. Really bumming me out. I've had this coral for over 5 years and it's actually centerpiece quality. My clowns are gonna be pissed (and no it's not them cause they've been symbiotic with it since I first got it). My two colts (neon green and pink) are drooped over but I'm wondering if that is from them being in front of the overflow. Carbon in. Protein skimmer going in over drive and WC water about to be prepped for morning. If anyone has any other ideas, let me know.
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 8, 2016 18:40:16 GMT -5
Oh and lights are turned down to 50% blue and probably about 30% assorted. As of last night. Went from 120W to 300W dimmable on Friday
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 9, 2016 9:13:31 GMT -5
4 more heads this morning
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Post by ryansweatt2004 on Mar 9, 2016 9:39:55 GMT -5
I've never seen light of any sort melt corals, even when upgrading like that. 99% of the time the corals that don't like the extra light will simply close up or start to expel their symbiotic zooxanthellae algae and simply turn almost completely white, "coral bleaching". I've had euphylia and many other corals melt like you describe a few times over the years and more often than not, if it's not an easily noticed case of coral warfare where one coral sends out digestive organs or sweeper tentacles to kill another coral, it's usually related to water parameters of some sort. Not all tests are inaccurate either. That said, simple water parameter changes in salinity and temp can really have a huge impact on corals. Most of my melting coral issues have generally been related to low alk, mag, cal or water temp being too high or too low, just my 2 cents, hope things improve.
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 9, 2016 10:46:25 GMT -5
I've never seen light of any sort melt corals, even when upgrading like that. 99% of the time the corals that don't like the extra light will simply close up or start to expel their symbiotic zooxanthellae algae and simply turn almost completely white, "coral bleaching". I've had euphylia and many other corals melt like you describe a few times over the years and more often than not, if it's not an easily noticed case of coral warfare where one coral sends out digestive organs or sweeper tentacles to kill another coral, it's usually related to water parameters of some sort. Not all tests are inaccurate either. That said, simple water parameter changes in salinity and temp can really have a huge impact on corals. Most of my melting coral issues have generally been related to low alk, mag, cal or water temp being too high or too low, just my 2 cents, hope things improve. Thank you Ryan |
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Post by Vijay Glenburn on Mar 9, 2016 17:24:16 GMT -5
If you need any water for the water change, text me and I can start it tonight.
Vijay
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Post by Sean (90 reef, fw rack sys) on Mar 9, 2016 17:40:47 GMT -5
If you need any water for the water change, text me and I can start it tonight. Vijay I just did a 10 gallon change, which probably isn't enough. But at $.85 a gallon and only having a 13 gallon mixing can, I did what I could. Our tap water is horrible even with a household r/o unit. Buying Hannaford spring water (because of convenience. I should have bought an ro/di when I had the money for it. But in the future, if you wanna sell some to me, I'd be willing to pay you for it. |
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