Need help please! Loosing all my Lps

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Puggie1991

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Hi, over the past month or so my Lps has started to recede. Mostly on the hammers in one of my tanks. I have another display and a frag tank aswell on the same system.. basically the hammers hm don't open as much day by day the finally they don't open at all. I've also noticed a similar issue with my Zoas where the don't open then just disappear... Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you
 
What are you water parameters, tank size etc etc. The more info that you can provide, the better we can help you out:)
 
To add to this, I would also advise that you check for anything that has a magnet in your tank(Frag holders, Feeders, etc.) and make sure that it has not rusted. This created a bunch of problems for me in the past where a few of my corals started to die and I found that it was a magnet that was leaching into the water and killing them.

I took the rusted magnet out, did a few large water changes and everything returned to normal. Good luck!
 
Thanks for getting back to me, first time posting.. Everything is fine water wise. The system is 3 years old and is 1500 liters. It has 2 reef tanks and a frag tank on the same body of water. In the main tank that Im referring to with the hammers, I lost a full acan garden also. In the other display my Zoas are effected, the close up and then disappear one by one (not sure if it's the same issue though)
 
Sorry but we still need actual numbers. Also what lighting do you have?
 
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The numbers look fine, and that's the issue, you know that already. What else, salinity, temp, flow, and light are the simple ones. Contaminants, heavy metals, electricity, or the plague lol are the tougher ones to figure out. It's a challenging hoppy for sure.
 
Yeah I know that's why I've turned to this page cause it's confusing. Nothing that can be tested has changed at all. flow, temp, lights salinity all constant.
 
Welcome to reef central =)


If you want opinions you really should be specific about basically the whole system.. What type of lights, flow, tank size, filtration, husbandry etc, basically a quick run down of the tank, maintenance and equipment list will rule out a bunch of things along with getting you opinions faster than every body having to ask these things(and they will =) .It's basically impossible to give an educated opinion in your case without the basics of the tank, and pictures of the things in question and the tank are a big help also.

There are a lot of things that could be going on from to much light/flow to not enough, alk spike, changing salt brands, changing lights, old bulbs /new bulbs, brown jelly, pests I can go on and on but it will all be guesses without more info and or pictures .

If I have any random issues first thing I always do is add carbon and do a larger than normal water change.. Having poly filter is a great way to rule out contaminants as it will turn different colors for different things.. Those two things are exactly what I have on hand at all times just in case..
 
I had something similar a few months ago. My lps were always the first affected. I couldn't keep one alive for more than a week. In my case it was the precursor to an outbreak of dino's. I would do a check for bacteria somehow. Put in some polyfilter for heavy metals, and if that does nothing, I would suspect a bacterial/algae contamination.

Daniel. :wildone:
 
Poly filter?? I think it might be metal. The pump I brought had a cast iron impella. Just pulled it apart and it's so badly rusted. Now that I think back it could have started happening just after the new pump. I done a 20% water change getting fresh water this time using buckets instead of the pump and I've noticed a tiny bit of improvemnet
 
Puggie1991 said:
Poly filter?? I think it might be metal. The pump I brought had a cast iron impella. Just pulled it apart and it's so badly rusted. Now that I think back it could have started happening just after the new pump. I done a 20% water change getting fresh water this time using buckets instead of the pump and I've noticed a tiny bit of improvemnet
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Puggie,

I would say that you found your issue. Like I said on my previous post above, this is exactly what happened to me. People rarely think that their pumps, made for aquariums, will cause these types of issues, but they do. If you took the rusted part out, follow the steps below and you will be back on track soon.

I'm glad you found this issue, you could have lost a lot more.

  1. Do a few weekly water changes larger than you normally do
  2. Before doing your water changes, stir up the sand bed and syphon the water out from the display tank and not the sump(this metal residue can stay there for years if you don't)
  3. Add a couple of bags of carbon to your filtration system
  4. Spot feed some of the corals that you see are a bit weak
  5. Cross your fingers and wait
 
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