Corals dying Help Please!

[kgravity]

So made the mistake of adding some non quarantined trumpets and ricordia but I did iodine dip last week.
Tank looked excellent last week but I got home on friday and my xenia were looking a little thinner than usual but still pulsing. Then starting monday two of my acan were pulled in and covered in mucus. Now my other Acan looks the same, my trumpets are starting too look weird this morning also with weird looking growths on them that im not exactly sure what they are but I will attach some macro photos as they are too small to see in detail with the naked eye and im not sure if they are part of the trumpet or not. My xenia are now shriveling and my Duncans are now pulling in but I dont see anything on them ..... yet.
On some of my zoas now that they are closing up I can see something that looks like fungus growth on the bottom.

I have stared at the tank light on and off and cant find anything except pods and some Vayssierea felis.


So far my other Dendro, frogspawn, and ricordia seem to be ok.
My Paramaters are.

Also things that changed recently over the weekend I changed out my GFO and added a second Vinyl return line and put some recently refreshed purigen back in the tank (my first time refreshing purigen). I have taken the Purigen and GFO back out now and just added carbon.



Temp 79.1-79.3
ph 8.3-8.4
Salinity 1.026
kh 10.0
Calcium 400
magnesium 1400
nitrate nitrite amonia, all undetecable.

Please if anyone can help I really appreciate it!

 

[Spyderturbo007]

In picture #3, the polyp to the left of the one where you have the arrow, looks like it has some Zoanthid eating Nudibranch Eggs on it. See the circular shape of small white dots? Can you see any Nudibranchs? You have to look very carefully because they are the same color as the Zoanthids they feed on, making them even more difficult to detect. That would explain the closed polyps.

I'm not sure about the Acans, or the Trumpet. Sorry I can't be more help.

I wonder if it it has something to do with the bleach regeneration of the Purigen. I assume you followed the instructions when you performed the regeneration?

 

[kgravity]

I haven't seen any nudibranch, but ive been looking for anything out of the obvious but I will have some time tonight and im going to watch the tank for as long as possible. The tank is only a 40b with not to heavy of rockwork and lots of open space so its pretty easy to watch for critters.

I was wondering also about the purigen, I did everything per the directions on the purigen plus I did another round of soaking it in prime and rinsed with DI water for 10 minutes just to make sure all the bleach was gone.

 

[triggreef]

Check the acans in the middle of the night, see if they have their feeders out. Idk about the trumpet or the polyps

 

[kgravity]

They had them out some on monday and tuesday, last night though I didnt see anything.

 

[kgravity]

sorry I meant sunday and monday, tuesday night I didnt check

 

[kgravity]

What does that indicate if they have their feeders out?

 

[kgravity]

So just got home and now the trumpet is totally pulled in two colonies of zoas also. I also found out the misses sprayed a bunch of air freshner all over the apartment last friday. Im not sure if that would effect the tank or not and if so i would assume the carbon would have pulled it out?

 

[kgravity]

Any other ideas anyone im desperate?

 

[organism]

How are you measuring your salinity?

 

[ReeferKimberly]

So just got home and now the trumpet is totally pulled in two colonies of zoas also. I also found out the misses sprayed a bunch of air freshner all over the apartment last friday. Im not sure if that would effect the tank or not and if so i would assume the carbon would have pulled it out?

Yes I once sprayed way too much perfume in a closed room. Was basically finishing a few bottles so I could throw them away. I really did not think of what I was doing until I noticed my zoas closing and then my hammer completely shriveled. I immediately did a 25% water change and added a LOT of new carbon. In a few days everything was back to normal. SPS did not appear to be affected but I mostly just have LPS and softs. Zoas, xenia, and hammer were all very hurting. Reefs are very delicate with chemicals and judging by my experience and now yours I am betting it just got into the tank even though it was not actually sprayed into it. I would do a w/c and change your carbon with brand new.

The "growths" are the corals ejecting their guts. They do that when stressed. They will pull them back in though so don't touch them. I don't know about that mark on the zoas. Could be eggs like said, I have not had any so I don't know.

 

[kgravity]

Im measuring with a red sea reef spec seawater refractometer.
I just put in some fresh carbon yesterday i will keep switching it out like your saying. Im finally going to get around to doing some big water changes tonight. Of course last week was the week for my new ro supplies delievered by ups to get stolen off the doorstep.

 

[kgravity]

Just an update for anyone else running into these problems. Well the spots on the zoa's seems to be zoa pox so i will be treating with furan2. The rest of the corals that survived are doing fine after slowly doing a 100% water change. Sadly the acans and trumpet in the pictures didn't make it.

So i geuss lesson learned fabreeze is some rough stuff. I googled the ingredients and I think i will be tossing the bottles out of the house.


Thank you everyone for the help!