I think i farked up... Need Help ASAP

[TMartinez]

So I put a post in the corals section as my 2 soft coral (xenia and kenya tree) appear to be droopy and listless after the transfer into the new tank. Well I come home today to my starfish looking pretty rough. Basically the skin on the tips of its legs is falling off, like it has some kind of marine flesh eating virus.

So now I'm officially concerned. This was a FOWLR tank that I bought used off Craigslist. So i had no control over setup and what not. Before I moved them over I checked all the water parameters and everything was in the OK zone. Here is where I think I screwed up. The tanks had about a 5 degree difference temp (old 30 was 81 new tank 76) and the salinity was different between the two tanks. My 30g has 1.026 new tank 1.021. But someone was coming to get the 30g so I fig it would have been ok. Is this what is causing my issue? How do I fix it???

 

[NCStateFisher]

did you not drip acclimate any of the coral to get em used to the lower salinity? thats crazy lookin on that star :S

 

[TMartinez]

nope... overzealous i guess... lps are fine though

 

[Heathd]

Starfish are very sensitive to large changes in osmotic pressure and temperature. I imagine softies are sensitive to osmotic pressure differences too, since they basically inflate themselves with water to obtain their shape and size. The softies should recover, not sure on the starfish though.

 

[FLESHY]

Keep a careful eye on it. If parameters werent too far off, and are better now, I think you will be okay.

Have some SW on hand though just in case all the softies go and you need to do some major h2o change action.