My hammer and frogspawn frag started to look a little shriveled last week after my water change and algae removal maintenance and tonight I’m watching them literally fall apart before my eyes.
I’ve attached some before and current pictures. The frogspawn isn’t actively melting like the hammer but I did see a tiny piece of it stuck to some rock in the back so I’m assuming polyp bailout.
When they remained shrunk for a solid couple days after water change I tested my water again.
Ph was lower than usual (7.8)...but I did disturb the sand more while sucking up algae, as occasionally I’ve had that happen and it usually goes back up after about 24 hours but halfway through the week the coral is still pretty shrunken but my water parameters are the same as usual:
Ph: 8.0
KH: 7
Ammonia:0
Nitrate: 2
Nitrite: 0
Ca: 450
Mg: ~1500
Salinity 1.026
77 degrees F
and then I remember I gently scrubbed the algae off my zoa/paly frags and cut a few errant palys off a small chunk of live rock with an exacto knife (used the old water bucket to keep them submerged for this process) during the water change, and maybe I wasn’t careful enough and I thought to myself maybe now the LPS is being poisoned by palytoxin and that’s the issue?
I go buy a new bag of Chemipur Blue to try and fix that possible problem
And about 24 hours later the euphyllia are dying right in front of me in real time.
I guess I’m just hoping for someone to tell me if the palytoxin theory is right at this point since I doubt they’re going to survive the night now
I’ve attached some before and current pictures. The frogspawn isn’t actively melting like the hammer but I did see a tiny piece of it stuck to some rock in the back so I’m assuming polyp bailout.
When they remained shrunk for a solid couple days after water change I tested my water again.
Ph was lower than usual (7.8)...but I did disturb the sand more while sucking up algae, as occasionally I’ve had that happen and it usually goes back up after about 24 hours but halfway through the week the coral is still pretty shrunken but my water parameters are the same as usual:
Ph: 8.0
KH: 7
Ammonia:0
Nitrate: 2
Nitrite: 0
Ca: 450
Mg: ~1500
Salinity 1.026
77 degrees F
and then I remember I gently scrubbed the algae off my zoa/paly frags and cut a few errant palys off a small chunk of live rock with an exacto knife (used the old water bucket to keep them submerged for this process) during the water change, and maybe I wasn’t careful enough and I thought to myself maybe now the LPS is being poisoned by palytoxin and that’s the issue?
I go buy a new bag of Chemipur Blue to try and fix that possible problem
And about 24 hours later the euphyllia are dying right in front of me in real time.
I guess I’m just hoping for someone to tell me if the palytoxin theory is right at this point since I doubt they’re going to survive the night now
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