Bogdan Posted July 18, 2013 Author Share Posted July 18, 2013 Have you been doing any home remodeling? No remodeling, nothing unusual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoly Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Ugh. That sucks. How is your dosing handled ? Are you running carbon ? Any creatures whose death could cause this ? kalkwasser with ATO, have a bag of carbon, no creature dead or alive could be responsible for that. sure there could be! sea apple death, anemone getting shredded in a powerhead, boxfish, etc. Sounds like nothing like that happened though. did you just happen to change your GFO? Ive had alk swings/phosphate swings that reealllly made my SPS mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juiceman Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Stray voltage? Do you have some of the same equipment as when it happened the first time? Sucks man, I've been there. I got you on some SPS frags! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggedfire Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I too lost all my sps/lps in this same way. Less than 8 hrs. I believe mine was a temp drop. This sucks that it has happened twice. Is it possible some paly/zoa spawned or released something on both occasions? Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Tapatalk 4 Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogdan Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 Ugh. That sucks. How is your dosing handled ? Are you running carbon ? Any creatures whose death could cause this ? kalkwasser with ATO, have a bag of carbon, no creature dead or alive could be responsible for that. sure there could be! sea apple death, anemone getting shredded in a powerhead, boxfish, etc. Sounds like nothing like that happened though. did you just happen to change your GFO? Ive had alk swings/phosphate swings that reealllly made my SPS mad. What I ment was that it didnt happen in my tank. No GFO at all. Stray voltage? Do you have some of the same equipment as when it happened the first time? Sucks man, I've been there. I got you on some SPS frags! I checked that and wasnt able to measure any voltage. Unless it was an elecrtical spike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogdan Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 It is a mystery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefer74 Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Bogdan sorry to hear that I'm definitely scratching my head right now thinking what in the world it could be....recent change in calcium additives...diffrent salts...heck I don't know at this point. What I do know is that I'll get you a couple of frags to help ya start back up. I'm sure you already have but try to back track and just look for any change whether it be slight or major...even your ro water or place you got it from...it can all go towards finding out where the culprit will be. I heard of someone who picked up water at a LFS for a water change and he was given ro water instead of salt...which led to the absolute bleaching of everything in the tank and the death of all his fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Bio)³ Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Man threads like this make me paranoid enough to end up getting about 60 test vials and each day just snagging some water. So if this ever happens I have 60 days of logged water to go back over and test for differences or send to a lab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Reefer Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Yes this seems to be a mystery and figuring it out would be great. With that said I would suggest to run more carbon and add a poly filter. The most logical culprit with all other things being equal(nothing changed) with the exception of introducing the new corals. It would seem some toxin was also introduced at the same time. It happens. Seems it made your corals angry and they expelled a lot of the symbiotic algae which gives them their color. They may recover on their own, but a poly filter may pull the toxin out and the color change on the filter pad may indicate what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Bio)³ Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Yes this seems to be a mystery and figuring it out would be great. With that said I would suggest to run more carbon and add a poly filter. The most logical culprit with all other things being equal(nothing changed) with the exception of introducing the new corals. It would seem some toxin was also introduced at the same time. It happens. Seems it made your corals angry and they expelled a lot of the symbiotic algae which gives them their color. They may recover on their own, but a poly filter may pull the toxin out and the color change on the filter pad may indicate what the problem is. I don't think bleach white sps are recovering. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+dapettit Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 How often & what size water How changes do you do? How do you top of the tank? Have you taken some water to an LFS to verify your test results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neon Reefer Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I wouldn't count those corals out just yest. Bleached is bad no doubt but unless you get algae growing on them they are not necesaarily dead. IMO I would make sure all is good w/ the water and give them a chance for a possible recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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