lundi 23 juin 2014

Pist Off Corals. Urgent

Hello All,



So yesterday I added a 5 head hammer coral, and a small button polyp. When adding the corals I rearanged many of the corals in the tank and upset them in the process (However, this is nothing I haven't done before). Before adding the new corals I did a 25% water change.



Usually after doing a large re-arange and cleaning such as this the water water will completely clear up and corals will open in about 2-4 hours. However, this morning when I looked at the tank, all corals were still strongly closed, the water was fairly cloudy (Hasn't happened since initial cycling), and 2 of my astrae turbo snails died.



Seeing this i did another 25% water change this morning before work. When I got back the corals are all still closed (Except for the button polyp).



Any opinions on what could be happening would be appreciated. I bought some ammonia lock and dosed it in case there is ammonia I can't detect (my test kits are old, but have proven accurate enough in the past)



Fish and Cleaner Shrimp are acting normal



The tank has been up for about 6 months tank specs:

10g



Livestock:

2 ocellaris clowns

1 cleaner shrimp

2 blue leg hermit

2 red leg hermit

2 atrae turbo snails

1 nassarius snail



Corals:

4 head hammer

5 head hammer

4 head frogspawn

medium-small button polyp

assorted zoas

Small Xenia

Duncan (1 large head, 6 growing in (small)



Husbandry:

25% water change 1/week

Change filter floss 1/week

No Carbon



Salinity: 1.025

Temp: 82-84

Ammonia: 0

Nitrite: 0

Nitrate: 10ish



Appreciate any opinions as to what have caused this. Could a coral have released something toxic that is clouding the water and upsetting everything?




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