Need your thoughts

[sulcata1619]

My Tank for the most part is doing great. All my sps are looking amazing.

Here are my most current test results.
Ca 430
Alk 8.3
Mag 1230
Ph 7.8-8.1
Temp 76-79
No3 1 ppm

My gorgeous red brain, my dead man's fingers and my candy cane are all looking on the verge of death. I can't think of anything.

Facts:
All three pieces are on my sand
All three pieces are in the left corner.

I have one piece each of the candy cane and the dead man's fingers in my frag tank and they are doing great.

This kind of tells me it doesn't have to do with water quality.

Any thoughts would be great.

 

[Kinetic]

are they getting stung? too little light? too little flow in the corners?

 

[jtarmitage]

A couple of thoughts:

Have you checked the Iodine levels in your tank? May not be enough for LPS and leathers.

Nutrients too low? Excess carbon use?

Too much flow in the corner?

Not sure, but those are the first thoughts that pop into my head. HTH.

 

[jkreefer]

Try lowering your T-5's

 

[sulcata1619]

I already tried that

 

[northbay-reefer]

Mike I would move them out into the frag tank to see if they do better out there. The fishies or other predators might be getting to them at night.

Check to see if they have any brown jelly in the dead area, if yes, then I would take them out and do an iodine dip and siphon off the brown part to keep the infection from spreading. And then put them back in a moderate to highflow area. I used to dip them in RO PH adjusted fresh water with Iodine with good result in the past.

If they are just turning white because they released their xoanthehellwhaterverthespellingis algea then they are irritated by some thing in the water. I would check to see if you have done anything differently or using anything new in the last month or so.

I did recalled that your koralia shocked you about a month ago right ? how long was the pump running inside your tank under that condition ? This could be the result from that event. You know that when a pump is crack like that it releases other chemical inside your tank such as solder flux, electronics cleaner solution, oil ect. If that is the case then I would put one of the dying candycane into Jeff tank to see if it will recovered. And do an emergency large water change.

 

[jtarmitage]

xoanthehellwhaterverthespellingis

Obviously the technical term.:lol:
If your pump shocked you, then I would also test for copper. I had a screw on a gate valve that rusted out over my tank and the copper levels ran up a bit, and the softies where the first to show signs of stress. But I agree, if you can't figure it out, pull them, and then do a series of water changes.

 

[elensius]

I'm sorry...

I must have looked at them a little more closely than intended while I was over there the other night (now if I could only get my Tank Gaze to work on nuisance algae as well as it seems to work on coral!).

On a more serious note, the only one of the three that I have is the candy cane... and the only thing I've noticed with mine is that it does tend to look less happy when other corals are too close to it (even if they are not the "long-tentacled stinging type").

There's my two cents for free... good luck!

 

[sulcata1619]

Like I said before, The pieces out in the frag tank are doing fine, so I don't believe it is a perameter issue. Otherwise all my softies and LPS would be looking like crap.

As for the shocking pump, that happened over a month ago and I did two water changes since. These corals have shrunk up just in the last two days. I haven't made any changes in perameters or flow in over a month. Is there any bugs or irritants anybody can think of that might only bother the corals during the day? All three corals are wide open and happy at night. The candycane opens up and feeds at night.

 

[racrumrine]

Is the Dead Man's Finger up current from the other two?

When a leather suffers, I think it sends out really powerful toxins that can take out other corals.

When I first started, I had a Dead Man's Finger. One day, it touched another coral and pretty much killed it on the spot. Later, I donated the Dead Man's Finger to a frag swap.

Best of luck,

Roy

 

[northbay-reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11198448#post11198448 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by racrumrine
Is the Dead Man's Finger up current from the other two?

When a leather suffers, I think it sends out really powerful toxins that can take out other corals.

When I first started, I had a Dead Man's Finger. One day, it touched another coral and pretty much killed it on the spot. Later, I donated the Dead Man's Finger to a frag swap.

Best of luck,

Roy

Thats why they call it Deadman finger :lol:

Mike, have you try spot feeding them ? they might be starving

 

[sulcata1619]

Good call Roy, I am going to pull the dead man's fingers out and see if the other two get better.

Tom, I feed my tank like Steve. (alot).