Holy Tissue Loss Batman!!!

[James983]

So yesterday I did my usual 10% weekly water change using the end of a 200 gallon box of ESV salt. I mixed it as usual making sure the temp. and salinity matched the tank. I noticed the PH drop only slightly from 8.41 to 8.44, which happen every time.

After the water change I watched as one of my Acros (JF Iceberg) shed it's tissue in about 5 mins. I've never seen a coral S&%^5 the bed so fast. I watched the rest of the corals waiting for the worst and nothing else was happened. No other corals even closed their polyps and I have some demanding corals like Hawkins Echinata and Ice Fire Echinata.

My RO/DI is reading 0 TDS. I checked my calcium this morning: 450 PPM, AlK reads a bit high 10.2 dkh, Mg 1400 PPM, PH 8.42. Also, my newly mixed salt water goes in through the sump not the display so the water was well mixed.

So now I'm sitting wondering ***! Anyone else ever see anything like this?

 

[Reef264]

Well, I have concluded only one thing from reading your post, It seems to be associated with the water change...Is there anything else you did besides the water change?Because quite honestly, this boggles my mind to no end.

 

[James983]

I fragged a few Acros just prior to the water change, that's it. Dont really know what could have bothered only one coral though.

I just posted this to see if anyone else ever had something like this. Looks like "not".

 

[Reef264]

Well, I have Seen Rapid Tissue Necrosis Happen Over Night, to me.But that was an Ammonia Spike Due to a dead Maxima Clam.Was the Coral that you fragged, the one that withered away in 5 minutes?

 

[Cptn Spaulding]

Did you mix the salt and add it right away? Did you let it mix in a bucket for awhile? If so, how long? If you didn't wait long, it could not have been ionically balanced and that definitely stresses certain corals out. Perhaps the bottom of the container had large amounts of certain trace elements that it didn't like? Buckets of salt can and are slightly unhomogenous (if that is even a word) sometimes, and some brands moreso than others.Nothing else showed any stress whatsoever? Was this coral in front of your return, getting the new water blasted on it first? Other than those possibilities I got nothin!

 

[Jonathan76]

How do you dump/pump in your new water. Maybe dumped in new water right over it? Sensitive coral immediately bathed in new water that does not exactly match what it is used to might = rtn

 

[James983]

Reef, no it wasn't the same coral

Captan, I always let my salt mix a few days prior. There was a few gallons left in bucket that was lower than the pump. Maybe that was it? The coral in question was not directly in front

John, I pumped new water into sump

 

[MammothReefer]

Check to make sure you didn't blow a heater by having it out of water for to long. Do you have GFI's?


er wait.. it was just 1 piece.. That is odd who knows. Does everything else still look 100%, or are they just not dying?

 

[James983]

Mammoth, I have GFI. I never leave heater on after water change. I did however leave some water from previous water change in the bin. That has to be it.

 

[MammothReefer]

Mammoth, I have GFI. I never leave heater on after water change. I did however leave some water from previous water change in the bin. That has to be it.

I donnu I do that all the time. I have a 45 gallon bin I make up my water in and I change 15-20 gallons at a time. I just keep adding to it because if I get to the bottom it's a hassle to siphon.. ha.

 

[James983]

I donnu I do that all the time. I have a 45 gallon bin I make up my water in and I change 15-20 gallons at a time. I just keep adding to it because if I get to the bottom it's a hassle to siphon.. ha.

Yeah but I don't heat or aerate. Not sure if that's the problem.

 

[Reef264]

It's the one coral Dying that puzzles me to no end.

 

[James983]

I have been doing my water changes the same way for over a year. Never a problem.

It really was wild watching the tissue just shed off the coral.

 

[drw94]

Do you match your temp? If you don't that could be a problem.

 

[drw94]

If you don't match the temp, then all parameters could be off. That is what I was trying to say. I need to stop the wine intake.

 

[RynosReef]

This is probably way out there, but do you have any anemones in the tank? Or any aggressive LPS nearby? I've had a frogspawn sting a birdnest pretty bad. And I lost a maxima clam once to an anemone that decided to move one day. I didn't think anything of it at first. I was looking at the tank and saw the anenome's tentacles swaying as usual and then bam.. it touched the clams mantle which quickly retracted into its shell. So i moved the clam. The clam was fine for about about 12hrs. Next day... hermit crab food. Is this a possibility??

 

[MammothReefer]

Yeah but I don't heat or aerate. Not sure if that's the problem.

I don't either only when I'm mixing in new salt.

 

[James983]

drw, The temp matched perfectly.

Rynos, The only LPS I have is a Golden Torch not anywhere close.

 

[Reef264]

Gosh this is going to sound Pretty Darn Stupid, But after arguing in my head with myself, I've came to the conclusion, it was just that corals time.I mean because if a parameter Spiked, when the water was changed, why were none if the other SPS affected.This...is truly the perfect crime.

 

[James983]

Don't know Reef, but I don't think I'm gonna leave water in mixing bin anymore.