Help!! everything loosing color
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Topic: Help!! everything loosing color
Posted By: suiso man
Subject: Help!! everything loosing color
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 4:22pm
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Sorry this is going to be long. A week ago something strange started happening to my 180 gallon tank. I noticed that an sps that I have had for 4 months and was doing fine, started to bleach. About 2 days after that, a ora birdsnest that has been in my tank for about 5 months started bleaching but still had polyps. I also noticed that all 6 of my anemones started to loose their color. I did a whole batter of water tests. Oh by the way the fish are all doing fine. salinity 1.025 nitrate .02 ppm nitrite 0 ppm calcium 480ppm alk 8dkh ph 8.3 current livestock 2 clowns 2 coral beauty 1 wrasse 1 niger trigger 1 mandarine 2 emeralds lots of snails lots of hermit crabs 2 shrimp lawnmower blenny corals lots of zoas and palys moved to different tank just in case not affected by this. 2 ora birdsnest both bleached 1 deep water blue tip stag bleached pink tip hammer lost 2 heads purple /green tip hammer fine its still in the 180 purple tip frogspawn lost 2 heads. green tip frogspawn moved it to different tank. pink torch coral moved to different tank red monti slowly loosing color green fuzzy mushroom almost white gsp doing fine mushrooms 4 or 5 different kinds doing fine in the 180 candy cane doing fine duncan frag doing fine I moved as much coral as I could to a jbj24 gal that I have and everything is doing fine it that. I also did a 40% water change (which by the way has not changed anything with the tank.) its been 3 days and I still don't see any color coming back in the anemones or the fuzzy mushroom. any help would be greatly appreciated. |
Replies:
Posted By: Molli
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 4:32pm
| Have you recently changed your lights? |
Posted By: napalm77
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 4:55pm
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Vitamin C was the problem when my stuff started bleaching, I was told by a few people VC would make my corals really happy.... not the case really. My softies loved it, all my sps bleached and died. Try changing out your carbon and test your phosphates (advice given to us when we struggled with bleaching.) ------------- |
Posted By: hydro phoenix
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 5:07pm
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lights ------------- recent absurdity..Unicorns have rabies |
Posted By: jmw
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 6:47pm
| This probably has nothing to do with your problems, but I don't think I've heard this mentioned before. Do you have a chiller? I learned something a month or two ago....from my bad decisions! I had a chiller for 2 1/2 years. I must have forgot that the manual said clean every 6 months. When I cleaned that chiller you wouldn't believe the crud that came out of it. |
Posted By: Teknik777
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 7:32pm
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What have you change in your tank lately? Your par look fine have you tested then against another tank or brand? This may sound funny but do you have an accurate temp reading? This.sounds like a lighting or heating issue. If you are using a 9.99 temp probe that's not accurate. Is the water warm at all? ------------- 220 G SPS Display. |
Posted By: wickedsnowman
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 8:05pm
| It sucks when stuff like this happens cause the prob could be resolved but you wont see instant results. It takes alot longer for coral and anemones to get their color back than it did to lose it. I once tried to nurse a friends bleached bta back to health and in over a year it was in my tank it never got its color back. If your params are spot on and it happened suddenly my best guess would be temp issue as well or contamination. |
Posted By: Dionysus
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 11:11pm
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Do you dose or anything? use kalk? Could be the water is to clean, or ph spike. ------------- AquaMedic 250 Watt XM 20k 2 420s Vhos 29 DT SPS Dominant 20 G Long Frag http://utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=56607&title=dionysus-tank-build" rel="nofollow - My Tank Progress =) |
Posted By: sabeypets
Date Posted: September 11 2012 at 11:24pm
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Check your magnesium ------------- Shaun American Fork "Would you leave a dead cat in your kitchen till tommorow?" Builderofdreams |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 12:29am
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ok lights are pc no I haven't changed anything. the only thing I dose is aquavitro vibrance once a week it could be that the lights are getting old. would this cause it? I don't understand why some bleach for example I have ora birdsnest frags that died and I have a colony that is doing fine..... its weird. I don't have a chiller. my tanks are in the basement so I don't need one. I am just glad I had the other tank to move the corals too. I should also mention that my 180 has been up and running for over 9 months with 0 problems. |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 12:41am
| water is not very warm I keep my temp about 76 degrees. |
Posted By: hydro phoenix
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 6:39am
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the closer your lights are to a year old the less light your corals are getting, that will cause bleaching. ------------- recent absurdity..Unicorns have rabies |
Posted By: suiso man
Date Posted: September 12 2012 at 8:16am
| maybe it is the lights then. Shaun, I don't have a tester for magnesium I don't have that many sps so I haven't worried about it. |
Posted By: 19cobra93
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 1:38pm
| In one of my small tanks I lost everything but mushrooms and zoas when my lights got old. I saved some other corals by moving them to another tank. Then in the other tank as the lights started to age I could tell things were fading. Switched to LED's and everything came back brighter than ever. Been happy ever since. |
Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: October 09 2012 at 3:46pm
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Could be the light, but I doubt it. Probably work change a bulb out now and another one is a week or two. I would stop any dosing. I think you did the right think by doing a large water change. I would probably do another on as well. Once a coral is bleached it will take a little while until you notice the coloration coming back so waiting just a few days does not necessarly tell you if the water change helped or not. I would also have someone else check your water. I have seen over and over where people are relying on a test kit or a refractometer/hydrometer that is incorrect. You may also want to check from stray voltage. Good luck. ------------- Jake Pehrson Murray http://coralplanet.com" rel="nofollow - coralplanet.com http://utahbeeranch.com" rel="nofollow - :) |