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Unread 07/15/2018, 07:20 AM   #1
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URGENT: Corals suddenly dying?

This morning I came downstairs to find that all of my euphyllias were retracted with some sort of slime coming off of them. My acan was also very retracted and had weird white strands all over it. They almost look like tiny worms, but I'm not sure what they are, I will try to provide a picture later and my parameters, I just was very worried and wanted to make a post ASAP. What's really weird is that just yesterday they were thriving. I also noticed that my snail has some weird white thing coming out of its back end. What could this possibly be, and what can I do to solve it?


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Unread 07/15/2018, 07:27 AM   #2
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alright I did some research and I'm pretty sure the white spaghetti-like things on my acan are mesenterial filaments.


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Unread 07/15/2018, 07:28 AM   #3
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Pics are needed. What are your current params? Are you running carbon? Any changes since the last time they were happy?


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Unread 07/15/2018, 08:06 AM   #4
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Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0
Ph: 8.0 (I added some buffer to raise it)
calcium:360 (I added calcium and magnesium powder)

a pic will be coming soon


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Unread 07/15/2018, 08:44 AM   #5
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Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0
Ph: 8.0 (I added some buffer to raise it)
calcium:360 (I added calcium and magnesium powder)

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How much did you raise your pH? Also what about alk and mag?


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Unread 07/15/2018, 09:03 AM   #6
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That calcium is quite low for stony coral. I prefer an 8.3 alkalinity, (I don't track ph), a 420 calcium, and a 1350 magnesium.


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Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low.

Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.
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Unread 07/15/2018, 09:41 AM   #7
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Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate: 0
Ph: 8.0 (I added some buffer to raise it)
calcium:360 (I added calcium and magnesium powder)

a pic will be coming soon
What was the temperature of the tank? Things can get a little hot this time of the year and perhaps the corals were just reacting to this.


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Unread 07/15/2018, 11:22 AM   #8
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Acans like phosphates and nitrates in small amounts. I feed mine all the time with a mixed concoction of mysis, reefroids, rods foods, selcon, fuel. They love it!


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Unread 07/15/2018, 01:08 PM   #9
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how big is the tank? need to post pics of the corals and your setup, full tank shot, from your parameters sounds like your tank is too clean for lps and adding buffer,mg and ca may have stressed them out, also did not see your values for mg and alk


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Unread 07/15/2018, 01:43 PM   #10
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Calcium running low, bring it 420 ish, nitrate and phosphate should not be 0 or you will starve your corals, shoot fir nitrate 2-5ppm and phosphate .02-.05.
The above is more of a longer term thinking, your issue seems to be something happening fast ......either temp...is their anybody who can bother them?

Does it look like brown jelly?

Yup, need some pics if what you see...


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Unread 07/15/2018, 02:36 PM   #11
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I do think she is confusing KH and PH?


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Unread 07/15/2018, 03:47 PM   #12
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nah im not confusing it, my ph was just a little low


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Unread 07/15/2018, 03:55 PM   #13
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nah im not confusing it, my ph was just a little low
8 for ph is fine...…..don't ever use buffer to try to raise ph. buffer is for alkalinity (dkh). ph is a function of co2 in the tank/ surrounding air.


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Unread 07/16/2018, 04:09 AM   #14
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nah im not confusing it, my ph was just a little low
so what is the alk, and where are the pics!?!


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Unread 07/17/2018, 03:37 PM   #15
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I had sudden die-off a few months ago. Lost a gorgeous scoly and some nice big chalices.

The culprit was too low nitrate and phosphate. Zero phosphate is bad. These are living things that need food! I took out my phosphate media, doubled my feeding and things are coming back to life.


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8 for ph is fine...…..don't ever use buffer to try to raise ph. buffer is for alkalinity (dkh). ph is a function of co2 in the tank/ surrounding air.
I agree with this. Ph is very rarely a issue in saltwater tanks & adding buffer does more harm then good the majority of the time. It will only temporarily raise the ph but it also raises alkalinity. If u add it often u may have extremely high alk.

From what test u are doing it sounds like u have a api kit? If so I would think about getting some better test kits being u want to keep coral. Api for ammonia, nitrate & nitrite is fine for cycling a tank but the phosphate kit is completely worthless for our purposes. I like both redsea & salifert kits for the big three. The most important tests right now is alk, calcium & mag. I wouldn’t bother with ph & if it is api that u have for phosphate & nitrate u can keep them on hand just to make sure they don’t get extremely high.


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nah im not confusing it, my ph was just a little low
urgent where are the pics


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