Something's wrong

[Ne0eN]

Help, something's going on in my 60g reef tank.

 

Two days ago I noticed one of my frogspawn's deflated (both heads) and brown mucus oozing out. Also on the same rock, a piece of brown Monti frag knocked over and also completely bleached out. I suspected my urchin (Echinometra mathaei) must have found a new grazing area, so I vacuumed out the mucus as much as I could, and took the monti frag out.

 

Yesterday morning I noticed another frogspawn, on a different rock, one of the two heads starting to ooz brown mucus. I vacuumed it off and did 15% water change just in case.

 

This morning - I see, the frogspawn still covered in mucus (one head still doing ok), my galaxy colony has some small dead spots, and my brain coral also has some mucky areas. Now that I think about, the galaxy has been extending its sweepers more and more each day. Could it reach my frogspawn 8 inches away??? Clownfish/Mike, is this why you traded it away? :wall:

 

What else could be going on???

 

Here's a list of tank cohabitants:

 

2 false perc clowns

1 baby hippo tang

1 medium coral beauty

1 purple firefish

1 watchman goby

 

1 medium large emerald crab

1 coral banded shrimp

75 or so various hermit crabs

40 or so various snails

1 common urchin (echinometra mathaei) <-- hitchiker

1 rose BTA

1 BTA (not doing well)

2 frogspawn (now half on 1 left)

Various zoos, xenia, polips, shrums

1 finger leather

1 kenya tree

few small brown monti frags

1 colony GSP

1 brain

1 colony galaxy - anyone wanna trade this guy?

 

-Rob

[unninair]

Since the problem is spreading, did you check your water parameters?

 

Unni

[Ne0eN]

Since the problem is spreading, did you check your water parameters?

 

Unni

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Yup, water parameters are as perfect as they can be:

 

79F / 1.025 sal / 8.3 pH /0 Ammonia / 0 Nitrite / <10 Nitrate

 

-Rob

[BeltwayBandit]

Yup,  water parameters are as perfect as they can be:

 

79F / 1.025 sal / 8.3 pH /0 Ammonia / 0 Nitrite / <10 Nitrate

 

-Rob

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Have you added anything new recently?

 

On a similar note, I had a torch melt down on me just this week too. One head was looking a bit pekid then all the sudden it got this film like covering then wham the other head was fine one evening and in 24 hours it was completely gone. But, it seems to be isolated to this one coral.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Brown jellly infection?

 

Galaxy's sweepers can get pretty long if it's kept in a higher flow area.

[steveoutlaw]

BB-

Did you kill my torch coral????? :wall:

[Ne0eN]

Just moved my Galaxy in the corner. We'll see what happens tomorrow am...

 

-Rob

[flowerseller]

The sweeper tenticals can easily reach that far.

 

You can cut off the bad parts into the good tissue and hope for the best.

Don't go crazy with water changes as you can create more of a problem with your ionic balance.

Chemi Pure is not a bad idea hower just allow water to flow through it (passive flow) as opposed to pushing water through it.

[Ne0eN]

The meltdown continues. I came back from a short business trip to find the rest of the remaining frogspawn covered in brown mucus, 80% of the brain dead and now some of polyps on one another rocks shriveled up. Fish seem to be ok.

 

Could it be my BTA that's been bleached for over a month, finally dying and releasing some poison into the tank? My skimmer seems to be producing more skimmate, but considering all the die-off, I don't see a big difference.

 

Should I just evacuate the whole tank? I'm running out of options.

 

-Rob

[Guest alex wlazlak]

could you get any pictures of this? im really sorry to hear about everything.

[Folta]

Is it possible that something got into the water? Anybody that could have dropped something toxic in? Any fumes or anything near the tank?

 

Have something on your hands without realizing maybe, and put your hands in the tank?

[Ne0eN]

Is it possible that something got into the water?  Anybody that could have dropped something toxic in?  Any fumes or anything near the tank?

 

Have something on your hands without realizing maybe, and put your hands in the tank?

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Nope, no one else is around. No fumes. I like to think that my hands are usually clean when I work on the tank.

 

The only other thing that's different in the past week or so - I had a case of excessive brown algae growing all over my cheato in the refugium, so I turned off its light to see if that controls it. The water flow through my refugium is something on the order of 10-20 gph. Very minimal.

 

Well, I'm pretty much back to FOWLR at this point. The only thing that seems to be doing ok is the RBTA, GSP and Yellow Zoos. I cant seem to find two of my shrooms. :wall:

 

-Rob

[unninair]

Rob,

 

Is your Anemone disintegrating?... if so take him out. If that is not the case, I dont think it is him. Please test your water daily to see if it is toxic for the fish.

 

I dont have enough experience to suggest any other logical solution. Good luck man

 

Unni