well for some reason my yellow star polyps have pretty much completly died off. all the water perameters are fine and everything else in my tank it thriving. but the polyps started to turn kinda dark and then they would open up "to far". I say to far cause the center of the polyps would turn into a dome shape and then the tenticals would poind down to the base. then a day after they did that they would not open and the tenticals would turn a bright yellow. then they would never open again and they just rot away. any ideas? and I will post pics.
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this pic is 24 hours after the last. as u can see the center of the stalk where the tenticals are hidden are bright yellow. but they will not open and odds are will pretty much be dead by tomorrow and falling apart by saturday if things hold steady as they have been. I mostly got the piece for the coraline algea but would be nice if the polyps didn't die lol. I know saltwater is kinda finiky compaired to fresh but it's strange to see things like this happening and not being able to figure it out pretty easy like u can with fish.
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Yes, things can go bad very fast in saltwater. I've lost colonies that were growing for years almost overnight. Sometimes, there's no obvious reason at all. With new corals, it's even more likely.
Are you sure your water params are good? A low alk can make zoas and their cousins melt away fast.
You could try a dip with iodine to see if it works. It doesn't usually harm anything, and it's worth a try if you have reef iodine around.
Are you sure your water params are good? A low alk can make zoas and their cousins melt away fast.
You could try a dip with iodine to see if it works. It doesn't usually harm anything, and it's worth a try if you have reef iodine around.
well then lower your nitrates. wile holding corals in your tank they should be as close to 0 as possible.
also i know my palythoa do the same turning inside out thing sometimes, whenever something in the water if bothering them. i've seen it many times, but its not a common occurrence, and the polyps dont die afterwards. The bright yellow bit is only because the pigmented skin is so close together that the color seems much more intense to you.
There is definitely something in that water that is annoying them.
Those are palythoa i believe.
also i know my palythoa do the same turning inside out thing sometimes, whenever something in the water if bothering them. i've seen it many times, but its not a common occurrence, and the polyps dont die afterwards. The bright yellow bit is only because the pigmented skin is so close together that the color seems much more intense to you.
There is definitely something in that water that is annoying them.
Those are palythoa i believe.
Did you start them off at the bottom of the tank? Too much light too fast can stress/kill new corals.
I didn't mean adding iodine to the tank, I meant doing a dip outside the tank. It can occasionally kill off pathogens on corals. There should be instructions on the bottle to do it.
It's well worth getting your own tests. What the LFS says is OK may not really be OK. Alk and nitrates can definitely stress corals enough that they'll succumb to disease.
I didn't mean adding iodine to the tank, I meant doing a dip outside the tank. It can occasionally kill off pathogens on corals. There should be instructions on the bottle to do it.
It's well worth getting your own tests. What the LFS says is OK may not really be OK. Alk and nitrates can definitely stress corals enough that they'll succumb to disease.
another 36 hours or so since the last pic. and I would love to get test kits but with truck payments and insurance it been hard to even find the extra $10 a week for my sunday night bowling league lol. but I do trust my lfs, they showed me side by side tests of their tanks and my tanks and everything was within .1-.3 + or - of their tanks. all but the nitrates and I can't figure out the nitrates. I stopped feeding my damsel for 3 days and nitrates did not drop at all. i don't get it and thats the only test that is off. maybe I need a better protine skimmer since I just got a lil $20 counter current. I'm just at a loss. I do have to say though as for the light issue it's about mid way in my tank and I only have a coralife dual t5 light on this tank so it's not high amount of light. I know I kinda rambbled on and sorry about that, just trying to let u all know whats going on in this tank.
on a side note it's kinda odd that I'm only having issues with this one coral as everything else isn't just surviving but thirving. button polyps are spreading as well as my green star polyps and coraline algae. mushrooms are growing.
on a side note it's kinda odd that I'm only having issues with this one coral as everything else isn't just surviving but thirving. button polyps are spreading as well as my green star polyps and coraline algae. mushrooms are growing.
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a 50%WC will get them down to 10 ppm from 20 ppm.
start running macro algae in your fuge, or if you dont have one, in your display. also do those 50% WCs.
make sure youre not using anything like a dirty canister filter or filter in general that has filter foam/sponge in it, ceramic media or anything like that.
start running macro algae in your fuge, or if you dont have one, in your display. also do those 50% WCs.
make sure youre not using anything like a dirty canister filter or filter in general that has filter foam/sponge in it, ceramic media or anything like that.