Help, somethings gone terribly wrong.
I'm posting here as well, in hopes that someone will have an answer to what is happening in my tank. Please help..
Hi guys, as the title says; Somethings gone terribly wrong in my 30gl. reef.
I did a 10% water change last week as I normaly do, except that this time I took all my corals out of the water and placed them in buckets for about an hour.
Reason I did this was under the advice of my lfs. I was having a bit of a problem with green slime like algea on some of the rocks the corals where attached to, and on the body of some of the corals themselves. The guy at the lfs told me to gently w/a toothbrush remove the algea. I bought a baby toothbrush, so that I would have the gentless possible brush.
Anyway, I did as told. I placed all the corals back, and of course they were all closed up which did not surprise me. What did surprise me is that the next day they were still closed. After a couple of days some began to open. Most are now open, but the montipora bleached out, the frog spawn looks like it is trying to come out, the sinularia appears to have some sort of infection on it's base. I may be wrong, what is on the sinularia is some sort of dark substance, almost black, when I rubbed the spot with my finger it came right off. As it came of I noticed that it seems to have eaten away at the coral. The coral is bent over where it was eaten away at. The tentacles are not really extending, and they are purplelish in color. The brains are fine, finger leather, toadstool, some of the palups, and the hammerhead seem to be doing ok. They are openning more and more each day.
Water parameters are as follow; Temp. 82, Salinity 1.024 - 1.025, PH 8.2, Ammonia 0.25ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, Nitrate 20ppm, dkh High, can't give you calcium results - test kit must be to old. Add upto 50 drops of 3rd.bottle with no change. In past test calcium reading has always been 500.
Can anyone figuere out what went wrong, and what should I do? Thanks for your help.
I'm posting here as well, in hopes that someone will have an answer to what is happening in my tank. Please help..
Hi guys, as the title says; Somethings gone terribly wrong in my 30gl. reef.
I did a 10% water change last week as I normaly do, except that this time I took all my corals out of the water and placed them in buckets for about an hour.
Reason I did this was under the advice of my lfs. I was having a bit of a problem with green slime like algea on some of the rocks the corals where attached to, and on the body of some of the corals themselves. The guy at the lfs told me to gently w/a toothbrush remove the algea. I bought a baby toothbrush, so that I would have the gentless possible brush.
Anyway, I did as told. I placed all the corals back, and of course they were all closed up which did not surprise me. What did surprise me is that the next day they were still closed. After a couple of days some began to open. Most are now open, but the montipora bleached out, the frog spawn looks like it is trying to come out, the sinularia appears to have some sort of infection on it's base. I may be wrong, what is on the sinularia is some sort of dark substance, almost black, when I rubbed the spot with my finger it came right off. As it came of I noticed that it seems to have eaten away at the coral. The coral is bent over where it was eaten away at. The tentacles are not really extending, and they are purplelish in color. The brains are fine, finger leather, toadstool, some of the palups, and the hammerhead seem to be doing ok. They are openning more and more each day.
Water parameters are as follow; Temp. 82, Salinity 1.024 - 1.025, PH 8.2, Ammonia 0.25ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, Nitrate 20ppm, dkh High, can't give you calcium results - test kit must be to old. Add upto 50 drops of 3rd.bottle with no change. In past test calcium reading has always been 500.
Can anyone figuere out what went wrong, and what should I do? Thanks for your help.
