Corals Look Real Bad

[Pazzoman]

Hey Everybody,

My cousin called me concerned about 2 of his corals.

1 Hammer, looks like a rock with lots of ridges (skeleton) with some tiny tiny hammers. As if they shrunked down in the skeleton.

2 frogspawn, these are in branches and like above the coral is sucked into the skeleton.

He told me he blew the corals with the wave maker a few min ago and notices lots of coral bits coming off the hammers and frog spawns any ideas?

The other corals are fine..

Please Help, thanks a million

@ Wrong Sub-topic thread Sorry@

 

[geph]

Sorry to break the bad news but they're dead or dying. That's what happen to my frog spawn, it looks like small baby ones. Once you see skeleton its done

 

[Pazzoman]

Yeah I had a feeling especially on the pics he sent me...I just told him now...Now I just told him to go check his water parameters as when he told me both his shrimps randomly died...was defintly the first sign of trouble

 

[littleg902]

Need water params, lighting specs, blah blah blah. What other corals are doing ok in the tank, and what fish are in there? If lighting and params check out consider hitchhikers or tankmates.

 

[Pazzoman]

He las two HO led fixtures the same ones I have thier high tech $$ so defintly not the lights

Fish:

-Sea Horse
-DartFish
-Scotter Blenny
-Blenny
-Clown
-Chromis
-Gamma
-Tiger Goby

Corals
-Button Polyps
-Hairy Mushrooms
-Blue Mushrooms
-Duncans
-Open Brain
-Lobos
-acans
Inverts:

-Clam
-Emeralds
-Hermits
-Turbos
-Bumble Bees
-Olive Snail

Thinks that sums it up lol, this is all I remember since yesterday

 

[littleg902]

If its only inverts check phosphate, nitrate, copper, etc (but is probably not a factor if other corals are ok). There is the possibility of them melting away from too high of lighting since the LPS are doing fine, or you have a soft polyp eating hitchhiker. If by emeralds you mean crabs, then there's your problem. When there is not an ampule supply of food, they will scavenge your corals.

 

[Otherone]

Time to remove the frogspawn and wall hammer before their deaths cause more.

It's impossible to help ID the cause without knowing - ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, KH, Ca., Mag, PAR, TDS, current, food sources, and spacing. All can lead to soft tissue loss - Poor cycling water conditions, High PO4 preventing intake of Calcium + Alk, low or high Ca., Mag+alk, Lighting and positioning,wrong foods or not enuff variety, corals being closer than 6-8 inches of each other - close corals soft and hard can kill off each other.

Best place to start is testing - most ppl seem to overlook hard corals daily demand for Cal + Alk. Saltwater chemistry is very complex and symbiotic, something as simple as a high concentration of TDS can lower the PH value throwing the whole chemistry thing off. Fluxuations in PH, Ca, Alk, + mag can cause stress and soft tissue loss. Reefs can be very difficult.

 

[we4wieners]

Like others have mentioned. If you're gonna be successful in salt, you must be aware of your parameters. Please post your parameters. EVERY question or problem with your tank will be answered in your parameters.

 

[we4wieners]

Also, how old is your tank, size, and your filtration set up?