The following is what I posted on my local club's forum page. Mine seems to differ in that I've lost a lot of inverts. The Acro deaths looke a lot like the pics posted here, except when mine went, 24-36 hours max.
Lost ALL the coral in my 200, and about half the inverts. Here's the scenario, I bought 10 or so frags at the swap, came home, acclimated them to the display tank (I know, quarantine, quarantine, quarantine!). Within a week, most everything is dead or dying, including my established colonies. I eventuall lost all the coral in my tank, Acros, Millies, Acans, Xenia, Staghorns, my Leng Sy cap, all the rest of my Caps, Blue polyps, Anthelia, Red Mushrooms, 8 or so Rics, everything.
Strange bit, the water parameters test fine. I own every Salifert test kit, everything tests good. No copper, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites. Temp is 79.2, no spikes, no electrical current, ph 8.2. Schuran reactor is running, calcium is up to 400-420, Mg around 1200.
2 RBTA's, all Astrea, all hermits (blue and scarlet), all porcelain crabs, all shrimp, all large feather dusters (small ones ok), all nassarus, LS urchin, sally lightfoot crab...dead. Weirder still, cereth snails are ok, small feather dusters, fighting conch, spaghetti worms, some peanut worms...all ok. All the fish in the tank...fine.
I use RO (4 stages, all changed before the problems), Tropic Marin salt, water sits approximatly 24 hours or longer before use in the tank, circulated with a Maxi Jet 1200 and aeration, have no detectable levels of anything on the tests that would be considered bad (copper, ammonia...etc.), no temperature spikes, no stray electricity on a conductivity probe. No gross dead animals (mice, chipmunks, whatever).
What do you think?
Steve
Lost ALL the coral in my 200, and about half the inverts. Here's the scenario, I bought 10 or so frags at the swap, came home, acclimated them to the display tank (I know, quarantine, quarantine, quarantine!). Within a week, most everything is dead or dying, including my established colonies. I eventuall lost all the coral in my tank, Acros, Millies, Acans, Xenia, Staghorns, my Leng Sy cap, all the rest of my Caps, Blue polyps, Anthelia, Red Mushrooms, 8 or so Rics, everything.
Strange bit, the water parameters test fine. I own every Salifert test kit, everything tests good. No copper, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites. Temp is 79.2, no spikes, no electrical current, ph 8.2. Schuran reactor is running, calcium is up to 400-420, Mg around 1200.
2 RBTA's, all Astrea, all hermits (blue and scarlet), all porcelain crabs, all shrimp, all large feather dusters (small ones ok), all nassarus, LS urchin, sally lightfoot crab...dead. Weirder still, cereth snails are ok, small feather dusters, fighting conch, spaghetti worms, some peanut worms...all ok. All the fish in the tank...fine.
I use RO (4 stages, all changed before the problems), Tropic Marin salt, water sits approximatly 24 hours or longer before use in the tank, circulated with a Maxi Jet 1200 and aeration, have no detectable levels of anything on the tests that would be considered bad (copper, ammonia...etc.), no temperature spikes, no stray electricity on a conductivity probe. No gross dead animals (mice, chipmunks, whatever).
What do you think?
Steve
