should i take dead or dying coral out of my tank?

[heartben]

the leathers i got are starting to shred and i can see some sort of inside on 1 of them, the top is just gone on it and the others are slowly doing the same thing.

this sucks. i realllly wanted those corals.

just wondering if its going to start polluting the water really bad or what

thanks
-ben

 

[leeweber85]

is the skin just peeling, or are they falling apart?

Run carbon either way

 

[xroads]

if you have a good pod population they will help keep the dead stuff cleaned up.

 

[heartben]

i think my pod population should be pretty sufficient my sump is chuck full of rock and cheato

i think they are falling apart, one of them snapped off the rock it was attached too and i think what i see now is the inside of em (under the skin) it looks like... rods or something

im really depressed about this event, although i cant imagine how travis felt to find everything dead

the zoos are flying off the rocks too, i suppose that means they are dead as well?

the blastos i got from him - the ones that were still there are now open... so, out of all of them 1 of them is mostly alive. i guess we will see...

thanks
-ben

 

[glaspie69]

I'd pull them before you start having more issues with your tank, if you let them continue to "try to survive" in a tank that small you should prepare yourself for a ton of water changes in very large amounts. Leathers are pretty mean to tank when they die.

 

[phishcrazee]

What are your water parameters at (alkalinity, salinity, pH, nitrates, nitrites, ammonia, etc)? Zoos are usually very hardy, so it makes me wonder what's going on with your water...... how about your temp.? What kind of a system are you running?