Help Corals are dying!

dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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Hello recent after my alk was around 7.6 I accidently dose a little to much alk which brought the alk up around 9.3 and ph also went up to 8.35 to 8.58. Now most of are zoa/paly/chalices/scoly/anemone are stressing out and are slowly bleaching out. Recently did 1 water change yesterday about 30-40 percent and another today about 30 percent. This been on going since a week and I do not want to lose all my corals. Any advice would be awesome. If you need more information just ask and Ill try to provide it.

Eric

System:
30 Gallon
Sump: 10 Gallon
Tank been running for about 8 months

Parameters Current:(Test Kit Salifert)
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.35 Night 8.45 Day
Temp: 78-80
Alk: 9.3
Ca: 400
Mg: 1400
Nitrate: 0
Phosphate with Hanna Checker: 0

Lighting:
Evo 100 TS
Lights are on from 10AM till 8PM and the intensity slowly get up to 80 percent blue and 50 percent white/red/green

Flow:
Vortec Mp10ES

Top Off:
ATO

Coral Feed:
3 Times a Week spot feed
 
Smiley

Smiley

Nurse Shark
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if you did a 30% and then another one, id leave it alone for a few days and see if they recover.... i wouldnt do anything else.... just maintain alk and calc....
 
Munch

Munch

Reef Shark
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Yea, I agree, your current params look good. Let things settle and acclimate. Hopefully they all pull thru.
 
280g-reefman

280g-reefman

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Are they dying or stressing? Title says dying, post says stressing. Big difference imo. If they are actually dying frag off a piece that is still healthy and it should grow back nicely. If they are simply stressed keep your parameters stable without anymore big swings and leave them alone. Also pics woud help. An anemone bleaching sounds odd.
 
dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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#7
Help Corals are dying!

Well the anemone is shrinking slowly getting flat which is my sunburst. They are slowly dying some of the chalice are bleaching white and fading its color and the zoa/paly are shrinking.
 
dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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Help Corals are dying!

They are still stressing out already lost my joe know reef shockfire, mummy eye, bubblegum monster, 3g mummy eye and couple of my Zoas. Sunburst barley hanging. So I move all of them separate from the sunburst on another tank to see if that will help. Feeling I'm about to lost all of them.
 
Munch

Munch

Reef Shark
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Did you have a second tank setup already?

I could possible throw whatever is alive in my frag if needed.
 
dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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#12
I did not I picked up a 20 gallon and tried to seperate them. I think my only choice right now is try to move it in your tank Munch if that is possible. If it is possible how far do you live from littleton?
 
Aaron

Aaron

Cyano
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Not sure if this applies to your situation with the Evo LED fixture.

This sort of happened to me a few months back, as it turns out I had just purchased some Radion LED's and had them turned up way too high. I started out at low intensity and worked them up to 80% over the course of a month or so; then I started to loose stuff. First it was my monti's and then everything started to bleach. I've since dialed them way back down (run them at 60% intensity) and everything is finally recovering. Saw this video last week and it reminded me of my interesting experience with LED's:

http://www.mrsaltwatertank.com/mr-s...dion-generation-2-and-radion-pro-led-fixture/
 
dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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#14
Okay I will try that out with what is remaining left of my corals about probably 15-20 of them are still alive while about the other 15+ are dead but I did had it at 80 for awhile and everything was growing fine till I had this alk spike.
 
Munch

Munch

Reef Shark
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I'm in Parker, off Mainstreet and Jordan. I'm around tonight if you want to transplant em tonight, and free tomorrow as well, time may be of the essence...
 
Munch

Munch

Reef Shark
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Here's some pics, some have finally started to open up, and a lot are super pi***ed off still, but I'm hoping these pull thru!

They slimed up, from the quick transplant, so I'm trying to blow that off still.



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dragoonx777

dragoonx777

Copepod
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#19
Help Corals are dying!

Munch you are the best! Atleast they are opening again. They would've perished all in my tank slowly doing water changes to my tank to see what's going on
 
Munch

Munch

Reef Shark
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Quick photo update...

The Chalice is looking better, and eating nicely. I moved him to a lesser flow area, and he seems to be happier.

The Dendros also eat like pigs, and are doing awesome.

The Acan also looks great, feeding tentacles out all the time.

Some of the Zoas are slowly coming around, however, they are sliming up with a brown like film still. After some research, it may be a fungus of some type. Not exactly sure. - Wondering if this was part of your initial issue? Others still are closed up.

The chalices are not any noticeable different, but they were pretty tiny to begin with, so hard to tell.

The Favia looks great.

I keep blowing the slime off the zoas, but it comes back within a few hours.
 
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