Help!! Coral Quarantine Issue

[marc111]

So I bought 3 small mushroom rocks, a sinularia frag,a Hydnophora Coral frag, a Reef Gen War Horse Favia and a Tracy Morgonian Gorgonian. I polaced these in my 10 gal quarantine tank that has an HOB filter and acouple of pieces of live rock. It also has a coral banded shrim and a 1 in long pistol shrimp.

The everything looked ok for a few days except for the sinularia but it perked up. Then after about a week the mushroom polyps have begun shrinking and a coulple have died. I have tried doing watrer changes and that has not seemed to help. I moved the corals farther apart and placed the sinularia in the quietest corner and that has not fixed things either. I am afraid I am going to loose the mushrooms some of which have jumped off their rock.

The siunularia, gorgonian and hard corals continue to look fine.

Any suggestions?

Mark

 

[Azedenkae]

What sort of lighting do you have on it?

Did you use any chemicals?

Have you measured parameters of your quarantine tank?

 

[marc111]

I have a little bit of carbon in the HOB. Amonia and Nitrates 0. I thought the Ca, Mg, Alk werre right on due to a 50% water change when I found that the water I added was up at 1.029. I have brought it down slowly today and I will look tomorrlw to see if that was a major factor.

Mark

 

[Sapelo]

So I don't know if this will help (and I'm certainly not trying to distract from the OP's issue) but I've been wondering about lighting in a QT for corals.
I have some lower level LEDs in my QT tank which have been fine for my fish but I'm getting ready to add my first coral and was wondering if less than ideal lighting is ok for a QT tank. If everything goes according to plan, the coral shouldn't be in the tank that long anyway so....I guess I'm just trying to avoid expensive lighting for the QT tank. What is ideal for a QT for corals? Thanks.

 

[MondoBongo]

i specifically purchased a 4 bulb t5 fixture for my QT tank, to give me the ability to QT clams and other high light demand corals like acropora. it has been well worth the cost (about $100).

my main reef lights on the DT are LED. no need to get fancy with QT lights in my opinion, as long as it suffices for the photo needs of the animals in QT. being a 20 long, my QT didn't need super powerful lights, since it is fairly shallow.

 

[codyreed29]

I i just am using the light to go onto my tank as you really dont need a light to cycle a tank. Also have been using a 4 hulb t5ho when working on the canopy as well as a rapidled diy 14 leds a ballast and heatsink. Bought cost around 100 bucks. I have two QTs one for small fish sand dwellers inverts 10g as well as a 20l with matching 20l sump for corals larger fish and nems urch8ns starfish. I actually haven't even started my display cycle waiting another week 2 month qt for all fish inverts 3 to 4 weeks for corals also dipp8ng new coral before qt. Patience is so key I have gone that route as a noob.

 

[marc111]

So I did a water change lowered the lighting level by about 50%, put chemipure in the HOB and moved the sinularia to a different empty quarantine tank. This seems to have stopped the deterioration and the mushrooms are looking up. A learning experience.

Mark

O and on the light issue I am using a PAR 38 LED Daylight 5000K bulb at 1000 lumens over the 10 gal quarantine tank. A torch frag, favia frag, gorgonian and the mushrooms all seem to like the light level.