Rescue Corals

First of all, sorry to responding to a post from 4 pages back! Lol. My iPad must be playing with me tonight. BJD is an obvious brown mucus looking infection. You don't need to look hard to see it.

Leather corals will "self propagate" by dropping fingers. It's not uncommon.

Your Ca was at 800!?!? I call bad test. It should've precipitated out unless your alk was way low. Never ever dose anything you don't test for. A Hanna Ca checker is $50 on eBay. There's no reason to not get one if you feel the need to dose.


-Ben-
 
I won't even start to explain the advantages to a qt setup. Lol. That's a whole other discussion. I would still pull, dip, rinse and then place back in the tank daily. Always follow the manufacturers label in regards to usage.

Keep a mindful eye out for any possible BJD and simply and carefully remove the BJD with the aforementioned baster. Make sure you don't let any get into the water column. I turn the pumps off when doing this part.
 
Well I do have a 36g bow front that sits in dust... could set that up somewhere. Any forums explaining how to setup a qt tank in here? Maybe the new to the hobby one?
 
Exoristos said:
Well I do have a 36g bow front that sits in dust... could set that up somewhere. Any forums explaining how to setup a qt tank in here? Maybe the new to the hobby one?
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Ooooh! A project! I've set up several and would love to help. Do you want to just QT coral? Does it have a sump? Either way, I just make my coral QT's very easy to setup and tear down. Meaning...don't get crazy with anything. I do run sand and live rock (both can be bleached). I currently run a sump, but I used to just run a tank with a HOB filter full of carbon/GFO. I also run plenty of carbon.
 
Wow, my browser was messing with me...I didn't see the whole discussion above.

Scutterborn - I didn't think BJD was conclusively a bacterial infection last I heard. I heard dinoflagellate...heard some other random stuff...nothing conclusive. Have you heard something else?

Exoristos - How new is this tank? I'm going with water chemistry since all three of your new corals are having issues. Do you have other corals that are healthy? What's your temperature, and how are you measuring salinity (refractometer/hydrometer?)
 
MechEng99 said:
Wow, my browser was messing with me...I didn't see the whole discussion above.

Scutterborn - I didn't think BJD was conclusively a bacterial infection last I heard. I heard dinoflagellate...heard some other random stuff...nothing conclusive. Have you heard something else?

Exoristos - How new is this tank? I'm going with water chemistry since all three of your new corals are having issues. Do you have other corals that are healthy? What's your temperature, and how are you measuring salinity (refractometer/hydrometer?)
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The tank itself is new, the inside parts are 10 months old. The temp is 77-79, and I am using a hydrometer (usually testing different areas to make sure the result are accurate.)
And yes I do have other corals that are doing fine. Check my post in the ID section for my new addition.
 
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MechEng99 said:
Ooooh! A project! I've set up several and would love to help. Do you want to just QT coral? Does it have a sump? Either way, I just make my coral QT's very easy to setup and tear down. Meaning...don't get crazy with anything. I do run sand and live rock (both can be bleached). I currently run a sump, but I used to just run a tank with a HOB filter full of carbon/GFO. I also run plenty of carbon.
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I don't have a sump and I am thinking to go with a HOB filtration and SOME live rock but bare bottom probably. If I set up a QT it will be for both corals and fish (not buying any fish any time soon though). I live in an apartment so it will need to be setup semi-permanent and look kind of pretty. Also I will need another set of lights which I don't have the money for at the moment or I can change the bulb with an actinic one on the stock fixture?

this is my tank

potential project!!! :D
 
A quarantine tank doesn't need sand or rock anything else. It's necessary to monitor the parameters in the tank. Coral is easy. It's not like a fish that you'll need to feed. (Unless its an NPS that requires feedings). The main point of a QT is to isolate it from anything harmful in the tank or spreading anything harmful to other tank mates. I'd run a small HOB filter with carbon and a small power head in the QT tank itself.
 
Completely recovered

Completely recovered

Last update on this guy unless he takes a turn for the worst. I am going to call this one completely recovered
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This one looks great Dlandino.

Here is my project (I picked up the method from here).

I added a half bottle on top of it, I bought a skimmer, I target feed it with a turkey buster, and I tried to remove as much sludge as possible from it with the buster.

Day 1

Candy Cane

 
MechEng99, you latest rescue corals are totally amazing! Amazing! Amost anyone else would have said those corals were totally gone and thrown them away.
 
MechEng99 said:
Anyone else having luck with Trachyphyllias? That seems to be one of the tougher ones.

Any other hard-to-cure corals in general?
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No luck here. Even with trying your 3 step dip and following it to a t. I did get the right Bayer product too. I cut the skeleton with the fragging saw here at work and everything. On a side note, that Bayer product is a miracle in a bottle! I rid my tank of red bugs by pulling all my acros and dipping. So technically, I saved a bunch of sps! Lol. On a side, side note: Mecheng, here is your dream find. It's our lagoon tank here at work that we put all our distressed stuff in. Even fish!
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DLANDINO said:
Last update on this guy unless he takes a turn for the worst. I am going to call this one completely recovered
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Nice!!! That's so awesome. I just picked up my first rescue Goni (looks exactly like yours), so I'm going to try the iron like you mentioned.
 
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