Added tentacle leather now my tank CRASHED !

[xunkn0vvnx]

I am beginning to believe my tank crashed from the addition of a tentacle leather to my tank. All the coral in my tank now appear to be wilted and slowly dying. I have lost two fish as well.

What should I do to nurse them back to health?

 

[Ken668]

First off, test all water conditions, then post the results here.

An addition of a single coral usually doesn't crash a system. It might be coincidence or it could be the "straw that broke the camels back"

 

[tinyreef]

when in doubt, waterchange out. i'd do at least a 10% change. (make sure your source water's fine)

in addition to what ken suggested, post a picture of what you're seeing so we can see it too.

some sarcophytons can be very noxious. it just comes naturally to them. running some carbon/chemical filtration now also can't hurt, e.g. carbon, Poly-Filters, purigen, chemi-pure, etc..

 

[xunkn0vvnx]

Here's a picture of the coral.

 

[tinyreef]

well, it looks ok, to me at least. sarcophyton glaucum, would be my guess for ID btw. they can be slimey/noxious sometimes. otoh, i've seen dry leathery ones too but that might be either separate species or skin irritation issues triggering the slime.

how's the rest of the tank? waterchanges? carbon/chemical filtration in-place?