Please Help

ren00ryu

New member
My carnation and colt corals died off suddenly over a 3 week period(i uess not suddenly). They first turned white and kept shrinking until they just became mush. My pumping Xenia too died and I have a colony of button polyps that too have closed and started shrinking as well.
I noticed that my live rock is starting to look greenish, gray/brown and my and has lil bits of particles that are the same color on it as well.

I started seeing a strange looking worm thing on the rocks, it looks kinda like a mini starfish arm, you know the real tiny starfish that you get in those refugium booster/starter packs. Only thing is they are starfish arms, they move like a snake forward and backward and they zip across the rock very quickly. They look black and white(banded look pattern) some are all white and they are about 1/16th of an inch long. I wondering if anyone know what they could be and if they are parasitic and how can i get rid of them.
I couldn't get a picture that was clear enough to show them.
 
Sounds like it could be a water quality issue. How long has the tank been set up and cycled? Please post your parameters.

alk
ph
sg
ca
po4 (phosphates)
no3 (nitrates)
 
Lets see here the tank has been up and running just under 2 years. The temperature of the tank was very high though due to the heat in my aprtment because of the hot summer days. I must get a chiller.
The nitates were the only thing that was high everything else was fine, I dont remember the the exact reading off the top of my head though.

I just cant understand how the rock started looking so crappy and now these worm like things just showed up.
 
Back
Top