Chemiclean Killed my Aptasia

[sbash]

I had some red cyano building up pretty badly in one of my systems. It started to appear when I didn't maintain my GFO for a month or so... anyway, it didn't receded after changing my gfo, so I looked into this product.

Now, almost at the 48 hour mark, we'll ignore the issues my corals are having for the moment, the Aptasia is dead or dying.

Is this a result of the chemiclean or a toxin being released from the cyano?

I'm prepping for a large water change right now and I have turned back on all my filtration and started running carbon. My skimmer wasn't running for two reasons, the first being an equipment issue that trips my surge protector (so system shuts off every now and then, causing the skimmer to wig out), the second being most of the posts I read about said to turn it off as it will overflow due to the increase in surface tension. Anyway, the aeration was limited to my two dursos and the running pumps (and powerheads).

Does anyone have an explanation?

pH 8
Nitrates < 2
Posphates 0
Calcium 420
Alk 10.2 dKh (at bit high, it would have creeped up from my daily dosing).

I do have another post going down another diagnostic path, but I would like to explore why this situation would have killed the aptasia...

 

[cristata.reef]

Lol I'm not sure why you have a problem with the aiptasia dying off. But yeah could actually be a mix of both possibly

 

[sbash]

Lol I'm not sure why you have a problem with the aiptasia dying off. But yeah could actually be a mix of both possibly

Oh, it's not a problem, but I did manage to wipe out an aptasia outbreak. I thought we all might enjoy a thought experiment to figure out how I managed to do that.

Besides, I may have accidentally stumbled upon something significant here!

 

[Gareth elliott]

My guess would be low O2. Anemones breath through their mouths and then use cellular respiration.

They are less efficient than their jelly fish cousins at this, who have a few adaptations for low O2 environments.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/27530-clownfish-fan-sea-anemones.html

Interesting read on how clowns provide a form of adaptation for oxygen.

 

[sbash]

My guess would be low O2. Anemones breath through their mouths and then use cellular respiration.

They are less efficient than their jelly fish cousins at this, who have a few adaptations for low O2 environments.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/27530-clownfish-fan-sea-anemones.html

Interesting read on how clowns provide a form of adaptation for oxygen.

Interesting read, thanks!