So I have recently been getting a large amount of corals of all different varieties. Leathers, large zoa rock colonies, euphyillia, shrooms, montis, favias, acans, cyphastrea etc. Everything has been dipped in revive, some had some h202 for hair algea and rinsed multiple times before going into my frag tank.
Everything is doing great, except one... About 3 weeks ago I got a really nice Colt colony, about the size of a fist. One day started leaning over, did a few water changes, moved it around a bit. No better. Let it be for a few days and noticed it melting badly. So I went to pull it out and there was almost nothing left of it, it fell completely apart when moved.... I syphoned as much of what fell apart out and dipped what was left in revive rinsed it and back in the tank it went for the slight chance it makes it back.
Now a few weeks ago I have been noticing some brown slimmy stuff in little peices all over the tank, grows pretty quick, on the sand bed, around the corals and even on some of the corals flesh. I syphon it all out twice a day with a small airline hose, and replace about a gallon of water with new mixed everytime. Its super easy to syphon.
Zoa's, palys, lps and sps all look good, great color, and good polyp extension except my 3 Indo torches. No signs of bjd on them, just lost color, assuming from acclimating to new tank. My hammers and frogspawns look fantastic.
Does bjd only grow on coral flesh, and does this sound more like dino? Possibly a spike in nutrients from the Colt coral decaying feeding dino? I am running cheato in the return section and a carbon bag.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Note this is all in my coral only qt tank
Everything is doing great, except one... About 3 weeks ago I got a really nice Colt colony, about the size of a fist. One day started leaning over, did a few water changes, moved it around a bit. No better. Let it be for a few days and noticed it melting badly. So I went to pull it out and there was almost nothing left of it, it fell completely apart when moved.... I syphoned as much of what fell apart out and dipped what was left in revive rinsed it and back in the tank it went for the slight chance it makes it back.
Now a few weeks ago I have been noticing some brown slimmy stuff in little peices all over the tank, grows pretty quick, on the sand bed, around the corals and even on some of the corals flesh. I syphon it all out twice a day with a small airline hose, and replace about a gallon of water with new mixed everytime. Its super easy to syphon.
Zoa's, palys, lps and sps all look good, great color, and good polyp extension except my 3 Indo torches. No signs of bjd on them, just lost color, assuming from acclimating to new tank. My hammers and frogspawns look fantastic.
Does bjd only grow on coral flesh, and does this sound more like dino? Possibly a spike in nutrients from the Colt coral decaying feeding dino? I am running cheato in the return section and a carbon bag.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Note this is all in my coral only qt tank
