Help, xenia, mushrooms, anemones dying

[watergator]

What would cause my anemone, xenia, mushrooms, & starfish to start melting away? My hard corals are all doing fine. 0 nitrate, 0 phosphate, calcium 400, pH 8.1. My water seems perfect...

 

[LegendLand]

either too much flow, or too much light

 

[watergator]

My lights & flow have remained the same as when everything was flourishing! My temp is 78*. I am befuddled...

 

[LegendLand]

hmm...did you test for Ammonia, Nitrite, Maybe even Copper ? whats your SG ?

 

[watergator]

My copper & nitrite were 0, but I didn't check ammonia.

 

[LegendLand]

change salt ?

 

[watergator]

Same salt/RODI... My LFS owner is coming over tonight to analyze the problem. It's been confusing, but I'm sure we will find an issue and resolve it (hopefully).

 

[LegendLand]

did you find the problem ?

 

[romsoccer12]

there could be many reasons. how old are your lights? any new additions? did you accidently put something in your tank/ on your hands that could be poison?

 

[Gamepro_inc]

it depends on how sudden it happened. look for hitchikers (mantis shrimp, tiny six leg starfish, coral crabs) but if it is suddenly happening possible a contamination (aerosol spray or glass cleaner) I would do a huge water change with new salt

 

[zilofidelious]

retest for phosphates? what kind of testkit was used?

 

[DAftPunker]

check out that thread with the munching worm....I don't have the linke but who kknows

 

[frenchie]

hard corals are doing fine but everything is doing bad, wonder if you added a new fish that is taking a liking to soft corals. hippo tangs can much on xenia from i've seen and butterfly fish will go for anenomes and shrooms, angelfish will eat corals sometimes, or maybe you got a mean hitchhiker mantis shrimp or the big munchin worm

 

[RyanSweatt2004]

I've had low alkalinity wipe out soft corals with a few weeks of exposer, I have a mostly soft coral tank and Just like most other corals, the more light I give them the better thay do So I would not concider the light to be a problem. In my experiance, Most soft corals, Leathers, mushrooms and polyps that are well established will have no isses with the same amount of flow that sps will handle.