Dipped Zoos, now Nano crashing, help!

[ReefWifey]

Greetings -

A long time lurker, first time writer here. I've got a 12 gallon Nano that houses mostly Zoas. I've got a collection of about 20 kinds in there. I realized I had Nudibranches, caught some, and decided to follow Mucho's advice about dipping. So I made a 3 gallon batch as Mucho's directions said, fresh RO (no salt), temp 80, ph 8.2, 6 drops of Lugols (2 per gallon). I removed all my zoo frags and soaked them in the solution for 5 - 10 minutes. I shook them around, then placed them back in the Nano.

WELL. This morning when I got up, my snails were dead (or dying, I'm not sure), my clowns were laboring on the bottom of the tank, and a piece of galaxia I have in the tank looks roasted, no tissue left on it. The zoas are closed and look basically like they did when I put them in there last night. Anyone have any input on whats going on?!?!

:eek2:

Here are my thoughts:

1)Was the residual strong Lugol's solution left on the zoas when I put them back in the tank too much for the small nano enviroment causing toxic levels of iodine?

2)One of the larger button polys (Palys I believe) got a bit banged up and ticked off, and was looking mucosy when I put it back in. Is it possible that its letting off toxins that are affecting my clowns?

I did 2 water changes, 1 this morning, one last night, but they were only partial (2-3) gallons.

Ideas, comments, advice or even heckling is appreciated!

 

[smy168]

do a 30% water change and then leave the tank alone. Sometimes too many water changes can mess up your system. There's one thing I learned over the years, "you can only do what you can".

good luck

 

[FishWife1]

Yeah, do a water change an maybe run some carbon. that really stinks I hope it works out for you.

Laurie

 

[landragon]

Ha Ha youre stuff died!
Heckling aside, I agree about a larger WC and a period of wait would be better than 10% ones every 12 hours. It would be advisable to rinse any thing off after a dip prior to reintroducing to such a small tank. Whatever you did was 10 times worse than in mine if I had dipped all my zoas. Dilution is the solution to pollution.

 

[ReefWifey]

Thanks for the responses folks.......what do you mean by 'run some carbon'? I know my hubby put fresh carbon in the bag this morning, is that what you mean?

 

[chocolateblnt]

I am not sure of a solution to what's going on ... however running carbon means running whatever filter such as a small fluval with all chambers filled with carbon media ... this should absorb abnormalities in the water.